Joseph Ascher - La perle du nord (Mazurka Élégante)

Joseph Ascher was a Dutch-Jewish composer and pianist. He lived in Paris and London for most of his life. Ascher composed about 170 works for piano, piano four- and eight-hands, as well as ballads and display pieces for solo singers with piano accompaniment. Brown wrote: “his music is more than commonplace, and many of his single pieces evince genius of a decidedly original turn.