Moszkowski offers the first bar and a half of his piano piece En automme, op. 36, no. 4.

Moskowski was a German-Polish composer, pianist, and teacher. Paderewski said of him, "after Chopin, Moszkowski best understands how to write for the piano, and his writing embraces the whole gamut of piano technique". Circa 1875 he played one of his concertos in a two-piano version with Liszt playing the second piano. Two years later he was already playing his piano concerto on two pianos with Franz Liszt at a matinée before a selected audience invited by Liszt himself. His pupils in Paris included Josef Hofmann and Wanda Landowska. Moszkowski began suffering from a neurological problem in his arm and gradually diminished his recital activity in favor of composing, teaching, and conducting.

Towards the end of his life when he was ill and heavily in debt, his friends and admirers arranged a grand testimonial concert on his behalf at Carnegie Hall, involving 15 grand pianos on stage. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Percy Grainger, Josef Lhévinne, Elly Ney, Wilhelm Backhaus, and Harold Bauer were among the performers, and Frank Damrosch conducted.