My Introduzione e Allegro alla Polacca was commissioned by Trio Gaspard as part of their Haydn project. It is a modest tribute to the inimitable art of Haydn, which had an important impact on me already quite early in my musical life. When I was something like 7 to 9 years old, an important part of my piano lessons consisted of playing piano duets with my teacher Ralf Gothóni. We went through a large amount of repertoire, also including four-hand arrangements of many symphonies and string quarte...