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"pianoforte" Definitions
  1. a piano.
"pianoforte" Synonyms
piano grand piano instrument keyboard clavichord clavier pianola player spinet concert grand musical instrument player piano upright piano

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It was produced in the second half of the 18th century alongside the fortepiano, the immediate ancestor of today's pianoforte.
Welcome to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, where ladies are valued more for their ability to take a head shot at 20 paces than for their skills on the pianoforte.
That last entry of mine was one of the musical references, which included the conductor Seiji OZAWA, ETTA JAMES, the genre of NOISE ROCK, Marvin HAMLISCH, PIANOFORTE and my old favorite, the EURYTHMICS.
Recurring curves build to a funny totemic cohesion in "In the Red" (45 by 55 inches), which also plays spindly brushstrokes and wan colors against a bold, central crimson mass in a way that recalls Amy Sillman's pianoforte pictorial dynamics.
Thomas Zoells established the PianoForte Foundation in April 2005, one year after he opened PianoForte Chicago, a piano sales business. As an extension of his business, Mr. Zoells began organizing a concert series which led to the establishment of PianoForte Foundation, an independent, non-profit, separately incorporated entity. PianoForte Studios: In late September 2013, PianoForte Foundation moved from its original location in the historic Fine Arts Building in Chicago's Loop to its newly designed South Loop home. The space houses a new 100-seat venue with state-of-the-art audio and video recording capabilities, piano-equipped practice rooms, PianoForte Foundation headquarters and piano retailer PianoForte Chicago.
3, for string quartet (1945) The Song of Songs (Sonata no. 3), for violin (1945) Three Sonatas, for violin (1945–1948) A Little Palestinian New Year’s Festival: 1\. Zeman Simhatheinu (The Season of Our Gladness; a Sukkot song), for baritone solo and pianoforte; 2\. In Thy Pavilion, O Eternal (Psalm 15), for see original work list; 3\. Happy Is Everyone Who Reveres the Eternal (Psalm 128), for see original work list; 4a. Orah “Elul” (I Am My Beloved’s and My Beloved Is Mine), for violin, violoncello, and pianoforte; 4b. Orah “Elul,” for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass and pianoforte; 5\. Kaddish, for violoncello or trombone and pianoforte (1946) Sonata no. 6 in C, for bichromatic organ (1946) Orah, for orchestra (1947) Jerusalem (hymn), for violin and pianoforte (1948) Sonata in A, for pianoforte (1948) Three Sonatas, for viola (1948) Symphony no. 3 (1948–1953) Psalm 130, for English horn and pianoforte (1949) Quintet (The Five Points), for string quartet and pianoforte (1951) Sextet, for clarinet, string quartet, and pianoforte (1951) Symphonic Psalms, for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass and orchestra: vol.
PianoForte Foundation Logo The PianoForte Foundation (PFF) is a 501(c)(3) non- profit organization that presents classical and jazz piano concerts in Chicago, Illinois. Established in 2005 by piano dealer Thomas Zoells, PianoForte Foundation presents over 60 concerts each year in downtown Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.
The Marmaduke Barton Prize for Pianoforte Playing is awarded by the RCM. Recipients include David Helfgott and Marianna Prjevalskaya.Marmaduke Barton Prize for Pianoforte Playing, Opencharities.org; accessed 25 June 2014.
By the late 1700s, the pianoforte became more popular as an instrument for performance. Even though the pianoforte was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori at the beginning of the 1700s, it did not become widely used until the end of that century, when technical improvements in its construction made it a more effective instrument. Unlike the harpsichord, the pianoforte could play soft or loud dynamics and sharp sforzando attacks depending on how hard or soft the performer played the keys.Cecil Glutton, "The Pianoforte", in Baines (1969).
5 (1939–1953) Orah no. 2, for violin and pianoforte (1940) Shelosh Esrei Midot (The Thirteen Attributes), for baritone solo and organ (1940) String Quartet no. 1 (1941) Tel-Aviv, for violin and pianoforte (1941) The Five Points, for orchestra (1942) Concerto, for clarinet and strings (1943) Hymn, Aria, Dance, for clarinet and pianoforte (1943) Palestinian, Suite for violoncello and microtonal organ (1943) Sonata, for pianoforte (1943–1946) Symphony no. 4 (1944–1959) Ezekiel 34, for violin and quarter-tone organ (1945) Orah no.
He wrote pianoforte sonatas, and some songs and glees of no importance.
The pianoforte had metal strings which were struck by hammers which were activated by pressing or striking the keys. Depending on whether the keys were pressed lightly or forcefully, the pianoforte would produce a softer or louder sound.
A Dictionary of Pianists and Composers for the Pianoforte. Novello, 1895. p. 36.
"Sonate No. 10, für das Pianoforte von W.A. Mozart", Mozarts Werke (sheet music).
Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1910. and Alfredo CasellaCasella, Alfredo. F. Chopin. Studi per pianoforte.
Fiamingo has a degree in pianoforte and studies nutrition at the University of Catania.
In the course of his long career he also published a Companion to the Pianoforte Primer (1826), a Companion to the Thorough Bass Primer (1832), The Tutor's Assistant for the Pianoforte (1834), and a Guide to Practice on the Pianoforte (1841). He also published collections of psalm tunes, preludes, dances, Scotch and Irish airs, sonatas, a trio for three flutes, songs, and many arrangements of operas for the pianoforte. For nearly forty years, Burrowes was organist of St. James's Church, Piccadilly. About 1834 he settled at 13 Nottingham Place, where he died, after a long and painful illness on 31 March 1852.
Emily Jean Crimson Thatcher (December 15, 1868 - November 22, 1960) was a teacher of pianoforte.
During the age of the fortepiano, "fortepiano" and "pianoforte" were used interchangeably, as the OED's attestations show. Jane Austen, who lived in the age of the fortepiano, used "pianoforte" (also: "piano-forte", "piano forte") for the many occurrences of the instrument in her writings.
In 2008 the firm of Schiedmayer Pianoforte Factory was officially liquidated at the Registry of Companies.
1879 , which preceded Vito Frazzi's Scale alternate per pianoforte of 1930 by a full half-century .
The evolution of the psalterium resulted in the harpsichord; that of the dulcimer produced the pianoforte.
His compositions were chiefly teaching pieces for pianoforte and songs ; but he also wrote a Communion Service.
His compositions include a concerto in D minor for pianoforte and orchestra,announced as to be performed January 6, 1889 at the Peabody Institute. See Musical Yearbook of the United States (bottom of page, beginning of next page). Published 1890 by F. Luckhardt in reduction- see . a ballade for pianoforte, an arrangement for pianoforte and orchestra of Liszt's Concerto Pathétique for two pianofortes, “The Chase After Fortune” (described as a “symphonic fantasy”) for orchestra, and a reorchestration of Chopin's F-minor Piano Concerto.
Associazione Amici della Musica di Cagliari. "Concorso Internazionale di Pianoforte “Ennio Porrino”: La storia". Retrieved 9 November 2013 .
His most important compositions are an occasional ode on the king's recovery, a concerto for pianoforte (or harpsichord) and strings, eight voluntaries for the organ, a volume of instructions for the pianoforte or harpsichord, a collection of psalms (partly by John Broderip), collections of duets, glees, &c.;, and many songs.
His compositions included many anthems and other church pieces, songs, pianoforte music, sonatas, transcriptions, and arrangements for the organ.
In Robert Schumann's 1836 Neue Zeitschrift für Musik article on piano études,Schumann, Robert. "Die Pianoforte-Etuden, ihren Zwecken nach geordnet" ["The Pianoforte Études, Categorized According to their Purposes"]. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik No.11, February 6, 1836, p.45. the study is classified under the category "speed and lightness" [Schnelligkeit und Leichtigkeit].
The Royal College of Music awards a Leonard Borwick Pianoforte Prize to outstanding students. His own students included Anthony Bernard.
C. Bechstein Pianoforte AG (also known as Bechstein, ) is a German manufacturer of pianos, established in 1853 by Carl Bechstein.
Moór's opuses total to 151 to his credit including eight symphonies."Klassika: Works Sorted by Opus Number" (in German) He died, aged 68, in Chardonne, Switzerland. His best-known invention was the Emánuel Moór Pianoforte,Sometimes referred to as the Duplex-Coupler Grand Pianoforte, but this name was not one that Moór himself ever used.
In Robert Schumann's 1836 Neue Zeitschrift für Musik article on piano études,Schumann, Robert. "Die Pianoforte-Etuden, ihren Zwecken nach geordnet" ["The Pianoforte Études, Categorized According to their Purposes"]. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik No.11, 6 February 1836, p. 46. the study is classified under the category "melody and accompaniment in one hand simultaneously".
Demosthenes (overture) (1925, unpublished) Koheleth I (Ecclesiastes), for violin and pianoforte (1925) Symphony no. 1 (1925) Four Little Preludes, for pianoforte (1925–1929, unpublished) Elohai Neshama, for three flutes, English horn, and bass clarinet (1926, unpublished) Sonata no. 1, quarter-tone hymn (1927) Symphony no. 2 (1928) The Vision of Isaiah, for baritone solo and organ (1934) Elisha, Fantasy, for violin and pianoforte (1938) Sim Shalom, for five tenors, baritone solo, list and organ (1938) Ezkerah (I Remember) (oratorio), for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass and orchestra (1938–1952) Symphony no.
Pianoforte is a 1984 Italian drama film. It is the debut film of director Francesca Comencini. Pianoforte won the "De Sica" award at the 1984 Venice Film Festival. For her performance Giulia Boschi, at her film debut, was awarded as best actress at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival and won a Silver Ribbon for best new actress.
In 1991, Baker was elected Chancellor of the University of York. She held the position until 2004, when she was succeeded by Greg Dyke. An enthusiastic Patron of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, she gave an address at the closing ceremony of the 2009 event."Female winner makes history at Leeds Pianoforte Competition", Yorkshire Post, 14 September 2009.
At the same venue a year later he premiered his Pianoforte Trio in A major with Joseph Joachim playing the violin part.
Couppey was born in Paris. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Victor Dourlen. At the age of 17 he became assistant professor of harmony, receiving the first prize in pianoforte and harmony in 1825, and in pianoforte accompaniment in 1828. In 1837, he became professor of solfège, succeeding Henri Herz and Victor Dourlen in harmony and accompaniment in 1843.
These pianos are true pianos with action and strings. The pianos were introduced to their product line in response to numerous requests in favor of it. Emánuel Moór Pianoforte There is a rare variant of piano that has double keyboards called the Emánuel Moór Pianoforte. It was invented by Hungarian composer and pianist, Emánuel Moór (19 February 1863 – 20 October 1931).
The Quintetto Chigiano (a.k.a. Chigi Quintet) was an Italian musical ensemble comprising a string quartet with pianoforte, and was especially active during the 1940s–1960s.
Doc, 1886. He was professor of pianoforte at Malvern College, and directory of the Worcester Cathedral Choir School. He married Louisa Susanna Millward in 1892.
James Palmer. Musical Opinion, November 2013CD Gega New (2014) Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Nos. 4, 5, 8. Ivo Stankov, violino - Ivan Donchev, pianoforte.
The Music Department gives tuition in pianoforte, string, wind, percussion and other instruments, choral conducting and music theory. It also hosts a junior string orchestra.
In 2019, Astley recorded and released a 'Pianoforte' version of the song for his album The Best of Me, which features a new piano arrangement.
3, twelve studies op. 13, and a Technical Guide to Touch, Fingering and Execution on the Pianoforte. Sloper died in London on 3 July 1887.
Aspull wrote a small amount of pianoforte music and some songs; these were published after his death by his father, together with a memoir and portrait.
Four Hymns, set to music for tenor voice with the accompaniment of pianoforte and viola obbligato, is a liturgical song cycle composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
It is nearly always the > orchestra which seems to be possessed of the composer's most prophetic > inspiration. Busoni sits at the pianoforte, listens, comments, decorates, > and dreams.
The Madeleine Orr Scholarship, which is still awarded annually, is open to full-time students of the Faculty of Music enrolled in a degree course for pianoforte.
Russell's organ voluntaries were in suite form. He published Twelve Voluntaries for the Organ or Pianoforte (1807?), and a Second Book (1812). Job was an oratorio adaptation for organ or pianoforte, from Samuel Wesley, issued in 1826. He also composed music to Christopher Smart's Ode on St. Cecilia's Day (1800) and the Redemption of Israel, both of which were probably performed by the Cecilian Society, of which he was a member.
Born at South Yarra, Melbourne Victoria to parents Frederick and Martha Thompson. Thompson was educated at Toorak College in Melbourne leaving with Honours, Proficiency Certificates Pianoforte and Ice Skating.
Wilkie was born in St Pancras, London to James Wilkie, a pianoforte tuner, and his wife Mary Ann. Wilkie trained in piano tuning and repair with John Broadwood & Sons.
In 1823 he crowned his work by producing his model grand pianoforte with the double escapement. Érard died at Passy, located in the XVIe arrondissement on the Right Bank.
Born in Quimper, he studied under Antoine François Marmontel (pianoforte), Lefébure-Wély (composition) and François Bazin (harmony).Cooke, James Francis (1910). Standard History of Music, p. 212. Theodore Presser Company.
Its unique specification consisted of "Nero pianoforte" or specially-developed pale gold "Quarzo fuso" pearlescent paint, satin grey wheels, polished brake callipers and all chrome trim in a dark finish.
A popular rendition of this piece was performed by Thomas Hampson(Tenor), Jay Ungar(Violin), and David Alpher(Pianoforte) in their album " Ashokan Farewell, Beautiful Dreamer Songs Of Stephen Foster".
Manone also discussed the issue in Down Beat magazine. "Tar Paper Stomp" was copyrighted on November 6, 1941, as a pianoforte version by Peer International.Tar Paper Stomp. Catalog of Copyright Entries.
This piano had knee levers, and Mozart speaks highly of their functionality in a letter: "The machine which you move with the knee is also made better by [Stein] than by others. I scarcely touch it, when off it goes; and as soon as I take my knee the least bit away, you can't hear the slightest after-sound."Bie, O. (1899). A History of the Pianoforte and Pianoforte Players, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd, 136.
It was not only ethnically-inspired works that resulted from these happy years: the overture to The Chiozzotte Quarrels (1907), as well as the Piedmontese works, were directed by conductors of the calibre of Wilhelm Furtwängler and John Barbirolli. Toscanini included the music in broadcast concerts by the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Among his chamber works that are still remembered are the two sonatas, opus 41 for cello and pianoforte, and opus 44 for violin and pianoforte.
The list would also include the Six Easy Lessons for the Harpsichord or Pianoforte op. 3 (n.d.).Fiske (1980), as above. As his wife was from Berkshire, the Berkshire Militia March (c.
Artur Pizarro won first prize in the 1987 Vianna da Motta Competition, first prize in the 1988 Greater Palm Beach Symphony Competition, and first prize in the 1990 Leeds International Pianoforte Competition.
393 "Sonatina for the Pianoforte";The Musical Times, Vol. 18, No. 413 (1 July 1877), p. 347 "God so Loved the World";The Musical Times, Vol. 15, No. 353 (1 July 1872), p.
Il Fondo Onnis-Porrino. Retrieved 9 November 2013 . Porrino died in Rome in 1959 at the age of 49. The Concorso Internazionale di Pianoforte Ennio Porrino was established in his memory in 1980.
The PianoForte Foundation has collaborated with such Chicago arts organizations as CUBE, Chicago Opera Theater, the Chicago Composers Forum, and many more. In 2008 and 2009, PFF collaborated with the International Beethoven Project to present the world premiere of a rediscovered Beethoven piano trio performed by the Beethoven Project Trio. The PianoForte Foundation was honored with the 2009 William Hall Sherwood Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts, for its role in bringing awareness and appreciation of piano repertoire and performance in Chicago.
Mazzinghi's concertanti were played at the Professional Concerts (Pohl, Haydn in London), and his miscellaneous compositions were popular, especially those for the pianoforte. He taught the pianoforte to many influential pupils, among them the Princess of Wales, afterwards Queen Caroline. He was entrusted with the arrangement of the concerts at Carlton House, and of the Nobility concerts, established in 1791, and held on Sunday evenings at private houses. For fifty- six years Mazzinghi was a member of the Royal Society of Musicians.
Besides the stage-pieces mentioned above, Mazzinghi published between seventy and eighty pianoforte sonatas; upwards of two hundred airs, &c.;, for pianoforte, and as many for harp and other instruments; thirty-five or more vocal trios, of which ‘The Wreath’ is still remembered; and a number of songs. A full list of his music is given in the ‘Dictionary of Musicians,’ 1827. Much of this mass of work, produced with apparent ease, was musicianly; but the flowing melodies were seldom strikingly original.
Hawkins was the first to see the importance of using iron in pianoforte framing. He was living in Philadelphia when he invented and first produced the pianino or cottage pianoforte – the "portable grand" as he then called it – which he patented in 1800. Thomas Jefferson bought one, of 5½ octaves, for $264.Charles H. Kaufman, Music in New Jersey, 1655–1860: a study of musical activity and musicians in New Jersey from its first settlement to the Civil War (1981), p.
He was Professor of Pianoforte at the Royal College of Music from 1921 to 1952, when he retired, although he then took up an appointment as Principal of the Rhodesian Academy of Music in Bulawayo, leaving in 1958. He continued to examine candidates on behalf of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, giving recitals as he went. His publications were on the topic of advanced piano technique, such as The Science of Pianoforte Technique (1927) and Music and Character (1929).
During the first year of his term, Howe gave two lecture-recitals on the “History of Pianoforte Technique” and “My System of Pianoforte Technique,” and gave the first recital the School of Music offered. Professors of Piano Glen Sherman, Claude Cymerman, and Lorna Griffitt repeated that exact program as a part of the School of Music's centennial celebration in 1984. Over the next 10 years, Howe established a curriculum, overcome strong opposition to an opera program, and encourage an active performance calendar.
NHA oversaw restorations that included painting the house white again and bringing in an early 19th-century pianoforte similar to the one Cowan had bought. It is a stop on the American Whiskey Trail.
Copy of a pianoforte from 1805 The turn of the 19th century saw dramatic changes in society and in music technology which had far-reaching effects on the way chamber music was composed and played.
The firm later changed its name to Schiedmayer Pianoforte Factory. In 1969, the owner of Schiedmayer & Sons, Georg Schiedmayer, took over the Schiedmayer Piano Factory, previously J & P Schiedmayer, from their then owners, Max and Hans Schiedmayer. Piano production was terminated in 1980, and the firm specialized on the manufacture of celestas and glockenspiels. In 1992, upon the death of Georg Schiedmayer, his widow, Elianne Schiedmayer, inherited the firm of Schiedmayer & Sons GmbH & Co. KG as well as Schiedmayer Pianoforte Factory, previously known as J & P Schiedmayer.
Vaughan, Mrs. Salmon, and Charles Smith. He composed some pianoforte music and a few sets of songs. He became a member of the Royal Society of Musicians 5 August 1792, and died on 5 January 1815.
They had two children. His eldest daughter, Harriet Hague, an accomplished pianist, who published in 1814 Six Songs, with an Accompaniment for the Pianoforte, died in 1816, aged 23. Hague died at Cambridge 18 June 1821.
It contained exercises and duets composed by Curwen herself and by composers John Kinross and Felix Swinstead.Kinross and Swinstead are mentioned only by surname in a list of materials given on an unnumbered page after page 11 of an addendum after the end of the main 387 page text of her Teacher's Guide. Their forenames are included on the title pages of individual step titles of Mrs Curwen's Pianoforte Method — see Mrs Curwen's Pianoforte Method 2nd Step (Kinross) and Mrs Curwen's Pianoforte Method 2nd Step (Swinstead) She wrote in a preface to the 16th edition, published in 1913, that she had based her system on a similar work by her father-in-law, John Curwen, for singing classes. Instructions for lessons were contained in the Teacher's Guide but omitted from the edition for the child student.
Departments reflect every speciality of the orchestra. Courses are also offered through the faculties of pianoforte, guitar, singing, organ, conducting and music education. Diplomas are awarded for all levels of teaching in the educational system of Argentina.
The Java Suite (originally published as Phonoramas. Tonal journeys for the pianoforte) is a suite for solo piano by Leopold Godowsky, composed between 1924 and 1925. It consists of twelve movements and is influenced by gamelan music.
He exhibited a precocious taste for music, and at the age of four picked out Paganini's melodies on the pianoforte from memory.Wilhelm Kuhe, My Musical Recollections, pg. 14, Rinsland Press (2008), . This work may be downloaded at .
"Robert Miller, Pianist-Lawyer". New York Times (December 1): D31, col. 4. The Pulitzer jury found that the piece, "shows mastery of a new medium and its imaginative use in combination with the solo pianoforte."Hohenberg, John (1997).
He began his musical studies at the age of five at “Pancho Vladigerov” National Music School in the class of Julia Nenova. From 2007 to 2013 he studied with Aldo Ciccolini.Valentina Lo Surdo. Ivan Donchev, un anticonformista al pianoforte.
Henry Behnes, also Burlow, (c. 1800 - August 1837) was a British sculptor. Born in London, Behnes was the son of a Hanoverian pianoforte-maker and his English wife. He was the younger brother of William Behnes, also a sculptor.
Ives left Hartford for Philadelphia late in 1830, where he established the Philadelphia Musical Seminary.Gilsig, 1985, 22. There, he taught violin, pianoforte, and singing. He also continued writing singing manuals and collections music, including materials for the American Sunday School Union.
Sergio Lauricella (June 19, 1921 - May 2, 2008) was an Italian composer. He was born in Naples. In 1948 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "Toccata per Pianoforte" ("Toccata for piano").
3, p. 2080-2081]. Maurice Ravel said that the Emánuel Moór Pianoforte produced the sounds he had really intended in some of his works, if only it had been possible to write them for two hands playing on a standard piano.
One of them is a pianoforte version of "Never Gonna Give You Up", in which Astley changes the key to F minor. In live concerts, Astley sings it in A minor. Astley is an occasional guest vocalist at Foo Fighters concerts.
George was an organist and pianoforte teacher, with a roster of students that included musicians' children and English nobility. After retiring around 1850, he emigrated to New Zealand, where he raised sheep and taught music until his death at age 86.
"Carols for Christmas-tide. Set to ancient melodies and harmonized for voices and pianoforte. " by Thomas Helmore and J. M. Neale, published by J. Alfred Novello, London & New York (1853) In the collection of the Harvard Music Society library, Boston.
Like Malaprop's Cerberus, he was three gentlemen at once. The entertainment was novel and interesting. Mr. Hatton gave some capital specimens of pianoforte music by various masters including Corelli, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, etc. He sang songs comic, sentimental, and serious.
It is quite clear that these and subsequent models by Clementi and other entrants into English piano building are derived directly from Americus's original. Hence the English Grand Pianoforte tradition comes about as a direct result of the prototype Americus Backers.
Sarah (1771–1843) served as an organist at St Martin's Church in Leicester from 1800–40, and composed at least one work, The British March and Quickstep for the Pianoforte. John Valentine died in Leicester and was buried at St Margaret's Church.
In 1968, he won the Bronze Medal in the Busoni Competition. In 1972, he won the Silver Medal at the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, which started his international career."The 1972 Competition" , Leeds International Piano Competition Official Website. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
Coin has recorded some 50 CDs, both as a soloist and with ensembles. Several of them were awarded prizes. He recorded Purcell's trio sonatas and Haydn's cello concertos with Christopher Hogwood. The Quatuor Mosaïques recorded Luigi Boccherini's quintets with Patrick Cohen playing pianoforte.
He was also a talented guitarist. His mother, of British/Italian/Sicilian birth was a proficient pianoforte musician. Freesia had graduated as a teacher herself and went on to have a large family. She encouraged her children to excel in the arts & languages. .
Piano transcriptions by Ferruccio Busoni. New revised edition] :Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel; Copyright 1902; cat. no. V.A. 1916 (49 pages) •Note: Selected transcriptions of organ and violin works. :•Contents: ::1) Präludium und Fuge (D-Dur) für die Orgel. (BWV 532) Zum Konzertvorträge für Pianoforte bearbeitet.
The ring was placed on display at the museum in February 2014. Regular events are held at the museum, both to further appreciation of Jane Austen, and to encourage new writers. There are also recitals using the Clementi pianoforte and performances based on her works.
He was granted patent (No. 1081) on 12 September 1774, for a pianoforte stop that could be fitted to a harpsichord. Between 1773 and early 1782, instruments were made to his designs at a workshop at 7 Gresse Street, supervised by Louis Lavigne Verel.
Johann Sebastian Bach's noch wenig bekannte Orgelcompositionen: auch am Pianoforte von einem oder zwei Spielern ausführbar. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1833. and various piano arrangements were published, for instance in the Bach-Busoni Editions. Bach himself rearranged many of his pieces to suit the performing situation.
Several notable composers dedicated works to her, including George Alexander Macfarren's Three Sonatas (1880)John South Shedlock: The Pianoforte Sonata. Its Origin and Development (London: Methuen & Co., 1895). and Michele Esposito's Ballades, Op. 59 (1907).Jeremy Dibble: Michele Esposito (Dublin: Field Day, 2010), p. 119.
Timothy Rishton, writing about his life in 1983, notes that the early promise of his keyboard works, some of the first to be specified for pianoforte, is not fulfilled, and for the last thirty years of his life he wrote little (at least which survives).
John Broadwood & Sons, the pianoforte-makers. In this group of musicians "Margaritta in black with a muff" (as the title runs) is short, dark-complexioned, but not ill-favoured. The original painting is at Castle Howard, the seat of the Earl of Carlisle in Yorkshire.
As an adult Johann Andreas taught his students to play the harpsichord and pianoforte. He also composed and gave singing lessons. His first published composition, a collection of songs with harpsichord accompaniment, appeared in 1766 in Braunschweig. Colizzi also made himself a meritorious etcher.
After directing Orquesta Riverside between 1957 and 1962, Adolfo Guzmán recorded several sessions for EGREM (Pianoforte, split with Frank Emilio Flynn and Peruchín). Between 1966 and 1967 he directed the quartet Los Modernistas.Los Modernistas, EcuRed. Around this time he became the music director of the Teatro Musical.
Emily Thatcher was a teacher of pianoforte. She was the librarian at Brigham Young College; she was the school organist and her home was a center of music. She prepared students for the great American conservatories of music. She was a member of the Tabernacle Choir.
A&C; Black. His works for solo piano include the three-part Bear Woman Dances, commissioned to accompany a dance depicting a Korean creation myth and largely based the Korean musical system nongak.Arciuli, Emanuele (2010). Musica per pianoforte negli Stati Uniti: Autori, opere, storia, p. 256.
As of 1 January 2017, the group is headed up by new management: Stefan Freymuth has taken over as CEO of C. Bechstein Pianoforte AG, replacing Karl Schulze who had led the group since 1986 and will stay on to advise the new CEO as general representative.
The History of the Pianoforte. 1876 As Alison Weir wrote of Henry VIII "It was common for subjects to bring gifts to royalty in the expectation of a reward and such largesse or tipping was expected of a monarch".Weir, Alison. Henry VIII King and Court.
Brill, 2014. p20 He was also a part of a revival in piano making in late eighteenth-century Italy, along with revival of piano making in late eighteenth-century Italy by such makers as Giuseppe Zannetti, Vicenzio Sodi, Luigi Vignoli, and Errico Gustadt.Pollens, Stewart. The early pianoforte.
19--, Mulga Bill's bicycle [music]: for choir (sopranos, altos, baritones) pianoforte (four hands), flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, cello, percussion - found in NLA catalogue.Peachey, Andrew. & Paterson, A.B. & Australian Music Centre. 1999, Mulga Bill's bicycle [music]: for SATB choir & piano / text by A.B. ("Banjo") Paterson; music by Andrew Peachey.
He was proficient with both the violin and pianoforte. His campus appearances included, for instance, his violin performance of Mozart's Sonata No. 5."The Euterpe Club," Cornell Daily Sun (5:121)(May 4, 1885). and Beethoven's Sonata F, major.Euterpe Program, Cornell Daily Sun (5:130)(May 15, 1885).
Aldo Ciccolini et Ivan Donchev fait honneur au festival. DNA, 1 ottobre 2011. Donchev has recorded the world premiere of Vito Palumbo’s Quadro Sinfonico Concertante (dedicated to him by the author) and the 3rd Tchaykovsky’s piano concerto (RAI Trade - 2007).CD Rai Trade (2007) Tchaikovsky: Concerto per pianoforte n.
In crowns form his reward iiii > libres.Brinsmead, Edgar. History of the Pianoforte, London, 1879. pp. 90–91 The clavichord was very popular from the 16th century to the 18th century, but mainly flourished in German-speaking lands, Scandinavia, and the Iberian Peninsula in the latter part of this period.
A pantalon reconstruction Pantaleon Hebenstreit (27 November 1668 – 15 November 1750) was a German dance teacher, musician and composer. Today his notability rests primarily on the pantalon, a keyboard instrument which he invented and which subsequently came to be seen by some as a precursor of the modern Pianoforte.
Violin Sonata No. 27 in G major (K. 379/373a) was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1781 and first published in the same year. The work consists of:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts Werke, Serie XVIII: Sonaten und Variationen für Pianoforte und Violine, Plate W.A.M. 379 (pp.2-13 (160-171)).
In 1854 Klindworth went to London, where he remained for fourteen years, studying, teaching and occasionally appearing in public. From London Klindworth went to Moscow in 1868, following Nikolai Rubinstein's invitation to take up the position of professor of pianoforte at the Moscow Conservatory, where he first met Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as professor of harmony. While in Russia he completed his pianoforte arrangements for Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, which he had commenced during Wagner's visit to England in 1855, Beethoven's sonatas and also his critical edition of Frédéric Chopin's works. He then became conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1882, in association with Joseph Joachim and Franz Wüllner, being also the conductor of the Berlin Wagner Society.
He had taken the popular excerpt "My Lady Sleeps" from Longfellow's The Spanish Student, and arranged it for voice and string quartet as well as piano and violin or flute obbligato. This music can still be heard today in a private collection. He composed Herne's Oak, produced at Liverpool, October 1887; The Rose of Windsor, Accrington, August 1889; an operetta, A Pair of Lunatics in 1892, Quartet in B-flat, Trio in D minor, pianoforte and strings, and Sonata in G minor, May Pole suite, and many other pieces for pianoforte. In 1895 he arranged and composed music for the first act of The Importance of Being Earnest for a musical event.
EB says he built his first pianoforte in 1780. 1914 Érard upright piano made in London Before he was twenty-five he set up in business for himself, his first workshop being a room in the hotel of the duchesse de Villeroi, who gave him warm encouragement. He built his first pianoforte in 1777 in his Paris factory, relocating fifteen years later to premises in London's Great Marlborough Street to escape the French Revolution - his increasing fame and several commissions for the likes of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette having placed him at risk. Returning to Paris in 1796, he soon afterwards introduced grand pianofortes, made in the English fashion, with improvements of his own.
At Cambridge, he received an English essay prize, combined with a third in History. His father tried to get Allon appointed to the university's inspectorate, but was dissuaded by Matthew Arnold, as he suspected the Tory government in power (whose Lord President had the job of appointing inspectors) would not be happy to appoint nonconformist inspectors. Allon composed and published many musical works, including two cantatas, 'Annie of Lochroyan' and 'The Child of Elle' chamber music, piano solos, and cantatas, mainly for the pianoforte or the pianoforte with the violin. Clyde Binfield noted that while "there was nothing Celtic in his ancestry", his compositions often bore Scottish inspired names, such as 'The Maid of Colonsay' and 'May Margaret'.
He left Rugby School at the age of 17 and moved to London where he played with various artists and bands, including the singer Maggie Nicols at her experimental voice and jazz workshops at the Oval House Theatre. At that time, Richards also took jazz piano lessons with jazz pianist Howard Riley. At 19, he returned to the Midlands and studied piano, organ and composition under Dr. Leon Forrester in Newcastle-under-Lyme. In 1975 he gained an LRAM in Pianoforte Teaching and 1976 an ARCM in Pianoforte Performance, while at the same time working and playing in a number of semi-professional rock and jazz- rock bands in Stoke-on-Trent.
In May 1888, Busoni and his pupil Frau Kathi Petri, Egon Petri's mother, attended a performance of the Prelude and Fugue in D major at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. She said to him, "You ought to arrange that for pianoforte."Dent, p. 82. A week later he played it for her.
Kramer, "Posthumous Schubert"; Brendel, "Schubert's Last Sonatas", p. 78; M. J. E. Brown, "Towards an Edition of the Pianoforte Sonatas", p. 215. The exact publication year (1838 or 1839) varies among the sources mentioned. Schubert had intended the sonatas to be dedicated to Johann Nepomuk Hummel, whom he greatly admired.
At an early age, Baumfelder was admitted to the Leipzig Conservatory where he studied with Ignaz Moscheles and Moritz HauptmannA dictionary of pianists and composers for the pianoforte - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved on 2011-05-01. and later obtained a scholarship. His other teachers included Johann Schneider and Julius Otto.
Yoon Hyun-sang (; born January 14, 1994) is a South Korean singer and songwriter. He is known for the TOP7 of SBS's K-pop Star Season 1. He released his debut album, Pianoforte and collaboration with labelmate IU for his debut song, "When Would It Be" on October 31, 2014.
The son of James Davison, of a Northumberland family, and the actress Maria Duncan, he was born in London 5 October 1813. He was educated at University College School and the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied the pianoforte under W. H. Holmes and composition under George Alexander Macfarren..
In 2013 Bax received the Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center, and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award. In 2009, Bax received the Avery Fisher Career Grant, and was the first prize winner of the 2000 Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. Bax also won the 1997 Hamamatsu International Piano Competition.
Michałowski was also a chamber musician, and performing duos with the violinist Stanisław Barcewicz, and trios with Barcewicz and the cellist Aleksandr Verzhbilovich.See article by Prof. Karol Radziwonowicz (Polish and English texts) . He wrote 35 pianoforte works (mostly short, brilliant items) and produced an instructive edition of the works of Chopin.
Owen, John. Gems of Welsh Melody. A Selection of Popular Welsh Songs, with English and Welsh Words; Specimens of Pennillion Singing, after the Manner of North Wales; and Welsh National Airs, Ancient and Modern ... For the Pianoforte or Harp, with Symphonies and Accompaniments by J. Owen, Etc. Ruthin: I. Clarke, 1862.
The citation is on p. 51. A realization of this version was first published in an edition by Thurston Dart in 1950.George Frideric Handel, Sonata in G minor, for Viola da Gamba (or Viola) and Harpsichord (or Pianoforte), edited and arranged by Thurston Dart, Edition Schott 10114 (London: Schott, 1950).
He was known for his interpretations of Beethoven. On 15 April 1890, his "Orpheus" symphony was performed in Steinway Hall, New York, under the baton of Theodore Thomas.New York Times archives He became professor of pianoforte at Weimar in 1893. From 1898 to 1903 he taught at Berlin, in the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory.
McGuckin was born in Dublin and began studying music as a choirboy in Armagh Cathedral, where he received instruction in singing, organ, violin and pianoforte. In 1871 he became first tenor at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin and was a pupil of Joseph Robinson.Eaglefield-Hull 1924. He appeared in concerts from 1874,H.
Her most well-known teacher was Max Bruch (1838 – 1920) who taught composition. She remained in correspondence with Bruch for most of his life. She composed the score for “Five Songs for a Voice with Pianoforte”, for which Max Bruch wrote lyrics and direction. She began writing poetry during her time at university.
26: Cinderella, a musical fairy tale for pianoforte duet. London, G. Ricordi & Co., 1899. Illustrated by Nelia Casella'Miss Nelia Casella', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011, accessed 17 Mar 2015 Also orchestrated by the composer.
In 1885, Yesipova was appointed Royal Prussian Court Pianist. From 1893 to 1908, she was professor of pianoforte at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Among her students were Sergei Prokofiev, Leff Pouishnoff, Sergei Tarnowsky, Maria Yudina, Leonid Kreutzer, Isabelle Vengerova, Anastasia Virsaladze, Leo Ornstein, Isidor Achron, Thomas de Hartmann, and Alexander Borovsky (Borowsky) [1889–1968].
They had four children – Margaret, John Spencer, Spedding and Thomas Herbert. Curwen died at Heaton Mersey on 16 May 1880. His son John Spencer married Annie Jessy Gregg, who went on to write the extensive and influential series Mrs. Curwen's Pianoforte Method based on her adaptation for the piano of John Curwen's method for voice.
Merlin also developed musical instruments. A pianoforte with a six-octave span he made in 1775 preceded by fifteen years Broadwood's five-and-a-half octave grand piano. He made improvements to the harpsichord, and created a barrel-organ/harpsichord which played nineteen tunes. Merlin invented inline skates with two wheels in the 1760s.
The Piano Concerto No. 18 in B major, KV. 456 is a concertante work for piano, or pianoforte, and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In Mozart's own catalogue of his works, this concerto is dated 30 September 1784. The work is orchestrated for solo piano, flute, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, and strings.
Kurasov was born on March 13, 1995 in Brest, Belarus. He has two sisters and a brother and is the youngest in the family. In 2006, the Kurasov's family moved to Krasnodar, Russia. Vladislav enrolled in the Interschool Aesthetic Center (IAC) to study variety vocal singing and pianoforte, and theatre at the Creative Union "Première".
Chen has made live broadcasts for Radio Television Hong Kong and Pianoforte Chicago (USA), and his six commercial recordings include two solo CDs for Jaques Samuel Recordings, a recording for the Cello Classics label with cellist Leonid Gorokhov, a solo piano disc for SOMM Recordings and piano trio recordings for Illuminate Records and Toccata Classics.
William Brown was an 18th-century American composer, flutist, and music publisher, active in Philadelphia and New York. He is known for his work Three Rondos for the Pianoforte or Harpsichord (1787), one of the earliest pieces of printed secular music for keyboards, and the first keyboard music to be published in the United States.
From 1946 to 1957, Potter taught at Mount Holyoke College. He was also the Chautauqua Institution's Choral Director from 1948 to 1952.Biographical Note, "Harrison Potter Papers," Mount Holyoke College, Archives and Special Collections, South Hadley, MA. Potter also taught at the Felix Fox School of Pianoforte Playing in Boston, Massachusetts and Sarah Lawrence College.
John married Shudi's daughter Barbara in 1769. They had four children, then Barbara died. He then married Mary Kitson in 1781 and had a further six children. Many of his descendants were involved in pianoforte manufacturing in England and some were involved in the British Army in India during the reign of Queen Victoria.
1760) #Two Sonatas for pianoforte, violin and violoncello #Four Sonatas or Duets for two Performers on One Piano Forte or Harpsichord (1777) #Anthems, etc. #6 Songs composed for the Temple of Apollo, book 1, op. 2 (c. 1750) # I will love thee, O Lord my strength (Psalm xviii), solo, chorus, orchestra, DMus exercise (1769) #XII.
"John McEwen", Chandos Records. Retrieved 18 November 2011 McEwen wrote two musical text-books: Exercises on Phrasing in Pianoforte Playing, and The Principles of Phrasing and Articulation in Music . The Musical Times considered that his chief literary contribution was The Thought in Music: An Inquiry into the Principles of Musical Rhythm, Phrasing and Expression.
In his teens he formed a second band, a quintette, including himself on the violin, his sister on the pianoforte or the bass, and three friends of the family. He prepared the orchestrations for this band. He also led the town orchestra, did some amateur acting, and sang comic songs in local village halls.
Adaptations, Transcriptions, Studies, and Compositions for Pianoforte after Johann Sebastian Bach by Ferruccio Busoni. Complete and improved edition.] :Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel; 1916; cat. nos. BB I - BB VI; 6 volumes :•Note: In addition to adaptations and transcriptions of pieces by Bach, the set includes original compositions by Busoni, which are paraphrases or free adaptations of works by Bach.
After this debut performance, his fame grew rapidly. He gave several more recitals in the British Isles and in many parts of the world. Additionally he gave several radio recitals, both in Britain and Canada. He took up the post of Pianoforte Professor at the Royal Academy in 1927 after an invitation by Sir John McEwen.
He lost his charges during the French Revolution, but later recovered some of them. He left a few works for the harpsichord and the pianoforte as well as the organ. Nicolas Séjan was Louis-Nicolas Séjan's father, his successor at the church of Saint-Sulpice. He died in Paris on 16 March 1819 and was buried at Montmartre Cemetery.
The improved pianoforte was adopted by Mozart and other composers, who began composing chamber ensembles with the piano playing a leading role. The piano was to become more and more dominant through the 19th century, so much so that many composers, such as Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin, wrote almost exclusively for solo piano (or solo piano with orchestra).
Yakunchikova was born in Wiesbaden, Germany in a prosperous industrialist family, and grew up in Moscow. Her family was very musical: her father, Vasily Ivanovich, was an expert at the violin, while her mother, Zinaida, played the pianoforte. Indeed, her father sponsored the construction of the Moscow Conservatory. Yakunchikova's own interests, however, turned towards the fine arts.
Charles William Glover (February 1806, in London - 23 March 1863), was an English violinist and composer. He was the elder brother of Stephen Glover. Glover played the violin in the orchestras of Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres, and was appointed musical director at the Queen's Theatre in 1832. He composed numerous songs, duets, pianoforte pieces, and arrangements.
RIG - kulturhistorisk tidskrift (Stockholm: Föreningen för svensk kulturhistoria) (2): sid. 91. ISSN 0035-5267 She also composed the song and piano music Jag icke någon vällust känner, which was included in the ”Åtskilliga sångstycken med accompagnement af pianoforte” (literary: 'Several Pieces of Songs for the Fortepiano'). ”Inventering hösten 2012 av kvinnliga tonsättares verk i MTB:s raritetssamlingar”.
Willmes was a volunteer at the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. Since 1997 he was editor and from 2003 to 2008 chief editor of the music magazine '. He is co- author of the work PianistenProfile - 600 performers: their biography, their style, their recordings. Since 2008 Willmes has been working as cultural manager for the Berliner Klavierfabrik C. Bechstein Pianoforte Aktiengesellschaft.
Spivakovsky's development there was overseen by the renowned pedagogue,Dr. F. Prelinger, Schlesische Zeitung, 17 December 1916 pianistDr. Leopold Schmidt, Berliner Tageblatt, 1915 and ensemble performer Professor Moritz Mayer-Mahr, who later authored the tome Technique of Pianoforte Playing with the official endorsement of Artur Nikisch, Eugen d'Albert, Ferruccio Busoni, Otto Neitzel, Moriz Rosenthal, and Emil von Sauer.
An artist of ability on pianoforte, organ, and violin, Radecke is best known for his compositions, which include two orchestral overtures, König Johann and Am Strande; the operetta Die Mönchguter (premiered 1874); and, above all, for his many songs, including the often-republished "folksong" "Aus der Jugendzeit" from his opus 22 set, to a text by Friedrich Rückert.
1838), Louisa (b. 1840), John Benjamin (b. 1845), and Jane (b. 1846). John Benjamin Tolkien had been a piano teacher and tuner, as well as a music seller, but he had gone bankrupt in 1877, when he was described as "John Benjamin Tolkien, of High-street, Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Pianoforte and Music Seller".
Many pianos have been equipped with pneumatic systems (Odeola, Ampico and Welte). In 1960, Gaveau merged with Érard. From 1971 to 1994 Gaveau pianos were made by pianoforte manufacturing company Wilhelm Schimmel."A History of the Piano, 1157-2007" The brand is currently owned by Manufacture Française de Pianos, the same company that owns the Pleyel and Erard brands.
He also took advantage of this period to deepen his repertoire and his reflection on music. He became interested in musical theatre, writing operas for children, the pianoforte. He is also passionate about chamber music and contemporary classical music. He conducts the Ensemble intercontemporain, the Ensemble 2e2m and from 1995, he teaches at the Conservatoire de Paris.
Some notable students included Winifred Atwell, Joyce Howard Barrell, Susan Bradshaw, Howard Brown, Elaine Hugh-Jones, Alexander Kelly, Denis Matthews, Noel Mewton-Wood, A A Owen, and Alan Richardson. Craxton was also an active composer. His first published work was the "Three Pieces for Pianoforte" (1911). Some of his songs were recorded by John McCormack and Lauritz Melchior.
Myers R. Emmanuel Chabrier and his circle. J M Dent and Sons, London, 1973. Unlike much nineteenth century writing for the pianoforte, the instrument is treated almost like an orchestra, and "foreshadows innovations in pianistic technique introduced by Ravel in Gaspard de la nuit and Debussy in the late Études".Myers R. Emmanuel Chabrier and his circle.
Richard, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam was a patron. As a harpsichordist, Burney wrote that Kelway was "head of the Scarlatti sect". His only notable publication was Six Sonatas for Harpsichord (1764), influenced by Scarlatti. Towards the end of his life, his music went out of fashion: a new style was introduced by Johann Christian Bach, and the pianoforte became fashionable.
Davison wrote orchestral works, one of which, an overture, was played at a concert of the Society of British Musicians. He also wrote and arranged pianoforte music for Bohn's Harmonist, and composed songs, among them settings of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The only book he published was a short work on Chopin, which appeared about 1849.
A very precocious boy, he was appointed organist in his native town at the age of 10 and held this post until he entered the Paris Conservatory in 1860. He graduated in 1864 as winner of many prizes.Baker's Biographical dictionary of musicians 3rd edition 1919. The same year he was appointed teacher of pianoforte at the Conservatory.
The Italian pianoforte or fortepiano is an example from a Western language; the term is short for gravicembalo col piano e forte, as it were "harpiscord with a range of different volumes", implying that it is possible to play both soft and loud (as well as intermediate) notes, not that the sound produced is somehow simultaneously "soft and loud".
Thomas Perceval Fielden (24 November 1883 - 15 September 1974) was a British pianist and music teacher. He was director of music at three public schools (Hurstpierpoint College, Fettes and Charterhouse) and was Professor of Pianoforte at the Royal College of Music for over 30 years. He wrote on the subject of piano technique and gave many recitals.
Kalkbrenner returned to Paris a rich man. Here he became a partner in Pleyel's piano factory, which by the time of Kalkbrenner's death (1849) had risen to a place second only to Erard in prestige and output.(Ehrlich 1990), p. 117. Kalkbrenner, although of German birth, became the ranking head of the modern French pianoforte school.
In 2011, he was an award recipient from the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe. Over the period 2011-2014, he was a recipient of several Hattori Foundation awards. He became the youngest ever first prize winner at Brant International Pianoforte Competition in Birmingham. He was selected as a Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) artist in 2013.
A typical publication that indicates her subject and approach was Mrs. Curwen's Pianoforte Method (The Child Pianist) Being a Practical Course of the Elements of Music, which ran to at least 20 editions with a separate volume The Teacher's Guide. The Child Pianist series of books was first published in 1886. Curwen first wrote it for her own children.
Albert H. Oswald Albert Heckles Oswald (Hetton-le-Hole, 1879 – 1929) was an English composer and organist. Albert Oswald was born to Robert Oswald, a shoemaker, and his wife Jane Oswald (née Thompson). He composed many pieces for piano in light classical style, in the heyday of Edwardian Salon music. He was well known for his Wright Pianoforte Tutor.
Willi Burger (Milano, 1934) is an Italian harmonica player. He won a world championship of chromatic harmonica in 1955 in a competition of Fédération Internationale de l'Harmonica, and he is considered one of the renowned classical harmonica players. He has recorded albums with accompaniment of pianoforte (Marcello Parolini), classical guitar (J.E. Alvarez), string quintet (Capriccio Harmonico Ensemble).
They were at that time "... entirely vocal, for neither overture nor concerto was played, and the whole instrumental band was limited to two violins, a tenor [viola], and a violoncello, with a pianoforte for the accompaniment of songs and glees. Mr and Mrs Harrison, and Mr Bartleman were the solo singers, and the rest of the entertainment consisted of glees and a few catches sung by the most celebrated English vocalists of the day.... Mr Knyvett presided at the pianoforte. The subscription was three guineas for eight concerts...." The concerts were influenced by the founders' background with the Concerts of Antient Music; but recent vocal works were also performed, by composers including John Wall Callcott, William Crotch and Reginald Spofforth. In the second year there were ten concerts.
A Requiem Mass was said at Micklefield, on 29 September, the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels. A concert was dedicated to his memory at Harrogate by Julian Clifford on 17 September 1919, including a tone-poem Lights Out written expressly for Farrar, and Farrar's work Variations in G for pianoforte and orchestra on an old British sea-song.
This was followed in 1817 by a similar work (Op.13) produced by the Philharmonic Society, of which Burrowes was one of the original members. In 1818 the first edition of his Pianoforte Primer appeared, a little work which was very successful. In 1819, Burrowes brought out a Thorough Bass Primer, which achieved a success equal to that of the earlier work.
In 2007 she won the William Kapell Competition and shared the Concorso F. Busoni second prize with Dinara Nadzhafova. Gulyak was the winner of the 2008 Washington International Competition of the Friday Morning Music Club, and also won ISANGYUN Competition 2008. In 2009, she won the 1st prize in the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. She is the first female winner of the competition.
The widespread adoption of equal temperament made classical musical structure possible, by ensuring that cadences in all keys sounded similar. The fortepiano and then the pianoforte replaced the harpsichord, enabling more dynamic contrast and more sustained melodies. Over the Classical period, keyboard instruments became richer, more sonorous and more powerful. The orchestra increased in size and range, and became more standardised.
A recording of singer Helge Rosvaenge (Tenor) and Gerald Moore, Pianoforte, performing Der Feuerreiter. Art songs have been composed in many languages, and are known by several names. The German tradition of art song composition is perhaps the most prominent one; it is known as Lieder. In France, the term mélodie distinguishes art songs from other French vocal pieces referred to as chansons.
He was music director of the New England Conservatory from 1890 to 1897. In September 1897, Faelten founded the Faelten Pianoforte- School Teachers Seminary, also in Boston, which by 1998 had 350 pupils. He toured the US and Germany as a concert pianist. He was the author of The Conservatory Course for Pianists, a widely used 16-volume series of textbooks.
Tests revealed these were one and the same recording. The so-called Lipatti recording was withdrawn.Mark Ainley – The Chopin Concerto Scandal Halina Czerny-Stefańska was a juror in many piano competitions including the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition. She was also a juror at the International Chopin Piano Competition for many years.
3 op 75; Palumbo: Quadro sinfonico concertante per piano e orchestra. Orchestra sinfonica di Oradea - Stefano Trasimeni, direttore - Ivan Donchev, pianoforte. In 2011 he has released the complete recording of Liszt’s “Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses” for Sheva Collection. The recording of Beethoven piano and violin sonatas with violinist Ivo Stankov for Gega new was 5 stars awarded by the British magazine “Musical Opinion”.
"Institutionalized", a song from band Suicidal Tendencies whose lead vocalist Mike Muir went to school with Iron Man star Robert Downey, Jr., is also included on the soundtrack. Djawadi performed a piano rendition of Antonio Salieri's "Concerto in Do Maggiroe Per Pianoforte eo Orchestra: Larghetto" which was used exclusively for the film, and as such was not included in the soundtrack.
A busker on Briggate Leeds is home to Opera North, Northern Ballet and The Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD). The Leeds International Pianoforte Competition is held every year at Leeds Town Hall and the Great Hall at the University of Leeds. Leeds also has a symphony orchestra. Leeds has a notable musical scene, and has produced many bands and artists.
Emerson Whithorne (birth surname Whittern) (September 6, 1884 in Cleveland, Ohio - March 25, 1958) was a notable American composer and researcher into the history of music. He had a reputation as an authority on the music of China. Whithorne lived for a period in London, staying until 1915. The Times reported that Whithorne was prosecuted for playing the pianoforte at unsocial hours.
Bottomley published several original works, including 'Six Exercises for Pianoforte,' twelve sonatinas for the same instrument, two divertissements with flute accompaniment, twelve valses, eight rondos, ten airs variés, a duo for two pianos, and a small dictionary of music (8vo), published in London in 1816. A dictionary of musicians: from the earliest ages to the present time, Vol. I, 2nd ed., pp.
Igumnov studied under Nikolai Zverev, and at Moscow Conservatory under Alexander Siloti and Pavel Pabst. He took theory and composition courses from Sergei Taneyev, Anton Arensky and Mikhail Ippolitov- Ivanov. In 1898-9 he was pianoforte teacher at the Tiflis music-school of the Russian Music Society. From 1899 he was Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, where his life's work was carried out.
On the occasion of his jubilee in 1896 Macfarren founded two prizes, gold medals for pianoforte playing, at the Royal Academy. In 1904 he retired from all active work, save that of contributor to The Queen. He published in the summer of 1905 an autobiography, Memories. He died in London on 2 September 1905, and was buried in St Pancras and Islington Cemetery.
A pianoforte with organ pipes attached, invented by Tomáš Antonín Kunz (1756–1830) of Prague in 1791. This orchestrion comprised two manuals of 65 keys and 25 pedals, all of which could be used either independently or coupled. There were 21 stops, 230 strings and 360 pipes which produced 105 different combinations. The bellows were worked either by hand or by machinery.
200px 200px by Hans Makart Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim, or C(K)aroline Bettelheim, pseudonym: Tellheim (, 1 June 1845, Pest – 13 December 1925, Vienna) was a Hungarian-Austrian court singer and member of the Royal Opera, Vienna. Her younger brother was Anton Bettelheim. She was born at Pest (Budapest), Hungary. She studied pianoforte with Karl Goldmark, and singing with Moritz Laufer.
The Hamiltons gave musical entertainments in which they played (William the violin, and Catherine the harpsichord or pianoforte) with some of their servants or professional musicians.Constantine 2001: 56–57. During their tour of Italy in 1770, the young Mozart and his father were introduced to the Hamiltons. Catherine played the harpsichord for Mozart, and he said he found her performance "uncommonly moving".
Mortari was born in Passirana di Lainate, near Milan in 1902. He studied at the Milan Conservatory with Costante Adolfo Bossi and Ildebrando Pizzetti. He graduated from the Parma Conservatory in 1928, having studied piano and composition. Already in 1924 he had won first prize with his composition Sonata per pianoforte, violino e violoncello at the Società Italiana di Musica Contemporanea competition.
Anne), BWV 552, transcribed for piano by Busoni (1890?) BV B 22 :^ Fünf kurze Stücke zur Pflege des polyphonen Spiels auf dem Pianoforte. [Five short pieces for the cultivation of polyphonic playing on the piano.] (1923) BV 296 :::5. Preludio: Andante tranquillo :^ Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C Minor, K. 546, the fugue was partly transcribed for piano by Busoni (ca.
He was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1881-1885,Boston Symphony Orchestra Musicians List, entry "Benjamin Cutter." According to this source, Cutter played the viola. Other sources say he was in the Orchestra till 1889. See David M. Bynog, Preface to American Viola Society edition of Eine Liebes-Novelle (A Love Story): 5 Bagatellen für Viola und Pianoforte, op. 20.
Elizabeth Weichsel received her earliest musical instruction, in company with her brother Charles (who afterwards was known as a violinist) from her father, under whom she studied the pianoforte with such assiduity that on 10 March 1774 she played at a concert at the Haymarket for her mother's benefit. In addition to her father's instruction she studied under Johann Samuel Schroeter, and before she was twelve years old published two sets of pianoforte sonatas. She now began to turn her attention to the cultivation of her voice, and at the early age of fourteen appeared at a public concert in Oxford. On 13 October 1783 she was married under her mother's maiden name, Wierman, at Lambeth Church to James Billington, a double-bass player in the Drury Lane orchestra, from whom she had had lessons in singing.
Köchel said of this sonata, "Without question this is the most important of all Mozart's pianoforte sonatas. Surpassing all the others by reason of the fire and passion which, to its last note, breathe through it, it foreshadows the pianoforte sonata, as it was destined to become in the hands of Beethoven." John Gillespie, Professor of Music at the University of California, describes the Piano Sonata No. 14 as a uniquely "somber and passionate" work of Mozart's, and states that "no other music composed before Beethoven contains so many Beethovenian elements," namely the "contrast of themes and the sense of ceaseless struggle." Mozart's sonata feels in several ways prophetic of Beethoven's C minor sonata Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, "Pathétique" (which it predates by roughly fifteen years), and both works share a similar overall structure.
28 Preludi per Flauto Dolce solo in forma di progressione musicale 8 Preludi (Studi) in forma di progressione melodica dalle «Sonate a Flauto solo» di Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani (Venezia 1720) per Flauto Dolce Contralto 9 Preludi (Studi) in forma di progressione melodica dai «XII Solos» di Francesco Mancini (London 1724) per Flauto Dolce Contralto Baroquefantasy n. 1 (1996) per Clarinetto e Pianoforte Baroquefantasy n. 2 (1996) per Viola e Pianoforte Duo didattici in forma di progressione musicale estrapolati da diversi autori e atti a superare velocemente e con sicurezza le difficoltà della letteratura musicale Rinascimentale e Barocca. Vol. I: per 2 Flauti Dolci S[A]-T (Violino e Violoncello) Duo didattici in forma di progressione musicale estrapolati da diversi autori e atti a superare velocemente e con sicurezza le difficoltà della letteratura musicale Rinascimentale e Barocca. Vol.
Americus Backers (died 1778), sometimes described as the father of the English grand pianoforte style, brought the hammer striking action for keyboard instruments from his master Gottfried Silbermann's workshop in Freiburg to England in the mid-18th century. Unlike the eleven other ex-apprentices of Silbermann who followed him to England and built square pianos with his action, Backers developed Silbermann's action (copied from Cristofori) into a reliable, powerful and responsive form that he built into a grand harpsichord case and added two tonal effects – una corda and damper lift – activated by pedals built into the dedicated trestle stand, again his original innovation. This new instrument altered the landscape of English music, causing composers and musicians to consign the plucked string harpsichord and its music to history. It is upon Americus's design that the modern grand pianoforte we know today is based.
Original German title: "Fantasie über zwei Motive aus W. A. Mozarts Die Hochzeit des Figaro". "Fantasie" is sometimes translated as "Fantasia", and "Motive" is sometimes translated as "Themes". For example, see the title used for Hyperion's recording played by Stephen Hough. Kindermann 1980, p. 440, gives the German title: Fantasie für Pianoforte über zwei Motive aus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts Oper »Die Hochzeit des Figaro«.
Muzio Clementi This is a list of compositions by Muzio Clementi. Clementi was a celebrated composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. He is best known for his piano sonatas, and his collection of piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum. Nineteenth century enthusiasts lauded Clementi as "the father of the pianoforte", "father of modern piano technique", and "father of Romantic pianistic virtuosity".
Christoph August Gabler (15 March 1767, in Mühldorf) – 15 April 1839, in Saint Petersburg) was a German classical composer. He studied theology at Leipzig. Ernst Pauer said that Gabler "followed up with zeal his musical studies" in his book A Dictionary of Pianists and Composers for the Pianoforte. Gabler became a music teacher in Reval in 1800, where he performed music and met with success and fame.
Born in Rome, Boschi is the daughter of the television presenter Aba Cercato. She made her film debut in 1984, in Francesca Comencini's Pianoforte, and for this performance she was awarded as best actress at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival. She was also awarded a Silver Ribbon for best new actress. In 1988 she won the Ciak d'oro for best supporting actress in Da grande.
Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1981, S. 12. Sinclair's strict education can be almost wholly reconstructed, using court records and reports to his mother, who showed no interest in her son's education. It formed the foundation for his later convictions that piety and self-knowledge were the routes to salvation. Frederick stammered, impeding his education in public speaking, but Sinclair taught him philosophy, maths, architecture, chess and pianoforte.
Maria Agata Szymanowska dedicated to him the Serenade pour le Pianoforte avec le accompagnement de violoncelle. He was also a notable sponsor of Polish theatres and his wife opened the first public school for girls in Poznań in 1830. Awarded on 6 September 1793 with the Order of the White Eagle and on 1 December 1815 with the Order of the Black Eagle, Prussia's highest decoration.
After its arrival in Cuba at the end of the 18th century, the pianoforte (commonly called piano) rapidly became one of the favorite instruments among the Cuban population. Along with the humble guitar, the piano accompanied the popular Cuban guarachas and contradanzas (derived from the European country dance) at salons and ballrooms in Havana and all over the country.Carpentier, Alejo. La música en Cuba.
Katherine Dixon Cook (1874–1960) was a well-known musician and pianoforte teacher. Cook was a prize-winning student at J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution and early showed a love of sport, especially cricket, at which he displayed considerable ability. On leaving school began working for The Register, where his uncleHis mother's sister Agnes Macnee (c. 1843–1913) was John Howard Clark's second wife.
"Fortepiano" is Italian for "loud-soft", just as the formal name for the modern piano, "pianoforte", is "soft-loud". Both are abbreviations of Cristofori's original name for his invention: gravicembalo col piano e forte, "harpsichord with soft and loud".Kennedy 1996, 560. The term fortepiano is somewhat specialist in its connotations, and does not preclude using the more general term piano to designate the same instrument.
Songes of sundrie kinds; first, aires to be sung to the lute and base violl; next, songes of sadnesse for the viols and voyce; lastly madrigalles for five voyces. It contained four madrigals; three of them, 'Come away, sweet love,' 'Lady, the melting crystal of thine eyes,' and 'Sweet nymphs,' were republished in the nineteenth century (1843 and 1857), with pianoforte accompaniment by G. W. Budd.
1800) was a second violinist in the same concerts, and performed in London for at least the next decade. Another uncle, Henry Valentine, was an oboist and ran a music shop in Leicester. Ann's younger sister Sarah (1771–1843) was an organist at St Martin's Church in Leicester from 1800, and composed at least one work, The British March and Quickstep for the Pianoforte.
Francisca Allard is the lead singer and a composer for the parang group known as Los Dinamicos. She also plays the pianoforte, the guitar and the cuatro. Allard was born in Trinidad and Tobago and sings traditional parang as well as soca and chutney parang. She won the COTT award in 2006 for the parang song of the year "Yo me voy de parranda".
In the composer's 1803 sketchbook the work was titled "Sonata per il Pianoforte ed uno violino obligato in uno stile molto concertante come d’un concerto"."George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1780-1860)". AfriClassical.com. January 27, 2015. The final movement of the work was originally written for another, earlier, sonata for violin and piano by Beethoven, the Sonata No. 6, Op. 30, No. 1, in A major.
The quartet took its name from the leader, the violinist Robert Krettly (b. 1891), who was brother of the cellist Odette Krettly (one of the teachers of Pierre Fournier (1906–1986)). Robert Krettly took part in the premiere of the Gabriel Fauré Pianoforte Trio in D minor op 120, in Paris on May 12, 1923, with Jacques Patté (cello) and Tatiana Sanzévitch (piano).Allmusic, see at .
This self-abasement of the familiar 19th-century heroic soloist's role thus requires careful consideration of balance in performance. But as Edward Dent comments: > Despite the incredible difficulty of the solo part, Busoni's concerto at no > point offers a display of virtuosity. Even its cadenzas are subsidiary > episodes. At the same time the pianoforte hardly ever presents a single > theme in its most immediate and commanding shape.
He authored several books, including Bibliotheca madrigaliana: A bibliographical account of the musical and poetical works published in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, under the titles of Madrigals, Ballets, Ayres, Canzonets, etc., etc. (1847), The Pianoforte, its Origin, Process, and Construction; with some account of instruments of the same class which preceded it; viz. the clavichord, the virginal, the spinet, the harpsichord, etc.
Picture of new ERNST KAPS MODEL 158B GRAND PIANO 2012 Ernst Kaps Piano Fabrik was a German piano manufacturer founded in 1858 with the original factory at 20 to 22 Seminarstrasse in Dresden, Germany. Kaps acquired the title of purveyor of the Kingdom of Saxony.Pauer, E. (1896). A dictionary of pianists and composers for the pianoforte, with an appendix of manufacturers of the instrument, p. 145.
Beethoven is remembered for his ability to compose classic music after completely losing his hearing. He tried several ways of using his deteriorating hearing before it completely disappeared. He had the legs of his pianoforte cut off, so that it was sitting directly on the floor. By lying on the floor in front of the keyboard, he could feel vibrations while he played, helping him to compose.
As a teacher, Morgan's tenure at the Guildhall was exceptionally long. When he retired as Professor of Pianoforte and Composition in 1951 at the age of 85, he had completed 64 years of service. Among his pupils were the composer Benjamin FrankelKennaway, E. D. "Frankel, Benjamin (1906–1973)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition, accessed 4 January 2010 and the pianist Dame Myra Hess.Ferguson, Howard.
"Musical and Literary Sources". Sorabji Resource Site. Retrieved 14 July 2020. and the Variazioni e fuga triplice sopra "Dies irae" per pianoforte end with sections named after the seven deadly sins.Roberge (2020), p. 154 Sorabji rarely intended for his works to be programmatic; although some of them have been described as such, he repeatedly heaped scorn on attempts to represent stories or ideologies in music.
Simeone (ed., 1997), p. 130-131 Elegy on the Death of Daughter Olga, JW 4/30 (also translated as the Elegy on the Death of My Daughter Olga; in Czech: Elegie na smrt dcery Olgy) is a cantata for tenor solo, mixed choir and pianoforte, written by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček in 1903. It was written to commemorate the death of composer's daughter, Olga Janáčková.
His many pianoforte works have won permanent success. Sgambati was also active in the contemporary musical scene as a promoter of the music of others and, among these, Dante Alderighi. He conducted the Italian premieres of Beethoven's third and of seventh symphonies (in 1867 and 1870 respectively). He also conducted the Italian premieres of more recent works such as Liszt's Dante Symphony and Christus oratorio.
Ernesto Lecuona After its arrival in Cuba at the end of the 18th century, the pianoforte (commonly called piano) rapidly became one of the favorite instruments among the Cuban population. Along with the humble guitar, the piano accompanied the popular Cuban "guarachas" and "contradanzas" (derived from the European Country Dances) at salons and ballrooms in Havana and all over the country.Carpentier, Alejo. La música en Cuba.
Two years later he married Harriett Cowan. In 1849 Antoine Dessane replaced him as organist at Québec Basilica, and he moved to Burlington, resuming teaching at the Burlington Female Seminary. He published during this time A New and original method for the pianoforte, 51 progressive lessons, and The pupil’s guide and young teacher’s manual, or the elements of piano forte playing. Molt died in Burlington in 1856.
He was a man of wide interests and varied attainments, an accomplished pianoforte player, and a successful painter in water-colours. On 2 June 1841 he was married at Finchley to Jennett Louisa, daughter of Richard Dixon of Oak Lodge, Finchley. In 1854 Frost edited the first three sections of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton. New editions were published in 1863, 1878, and 1883.
She received an Artist Diploma from Peabody and also holds a bachelor's degree in German Literature from The Johns Hopkins University. After College, she moved to Geneva, Switzerland, to study with the pianist Dominique Weber. She has also worked with Richard Goode and Blanca Uribe in New York, and with Leon Fleisher, Dimitri Bashkirov and Andreas Staier at the Fondazione Internazionale per il pianoforte in Cadenabbia, Italy.
He was the son of Robert Wornum the pianoforte maker, and was born at Thornton, near Norham, Northumberland, on 29 December 1812. Having studied at University College London in 1832, he gave up plans to read for the bar, and attended the studio of Henry Sass. In 1834 he went abroad, spending six years in visiting galleries, in Munich, Dresden, Rome, Florence, and Paris.
In the appendix of Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards (1786) by Joseph Cooper Walker there is a collection of 43 tunes. In Scotland, Bryson published in 1790 A Curious Selection of Favourite Tunes with Variations, and it contains Fifty Favourite Irish Airs. In 1793, Cooke published a Selection of Twenty-one Favourite Original Irish Airs arranged for Pianoforte, Violin or Flute containing many tunes.
Fanny Mendelssohn's early collections of piano works opp. 2,6, and 8 are titled Lieder für das Pianoforte (Songs for the piano). Other composers who were inspired to produce similar sets of pieces of their own included Charles-Valentin Alkan (the five sets of Chants, each ending with a barcarolle), Anton Rubinstein, Ignaz Moscheles and Edvard Grieg (his 66 Lyric Pieces). Two Songs Without Words (Op.
As the tin content in a bell or cymbal rises, the timbre drops. Bronze is also used for the windings of steel and nylon strings of various stringed instruments such as the double bass, piano, harpsichord, and guitar. Bronze strings are commonly reserved on pianoforte for the lower pitch tones, as they possess a superior sustain quality to that of high-tensile steel.McCreight, Tim.
Book 6, Variations-Studie nach Mozart :::6. Book 6, Motive :::7a. Book 6, Allegro :^ Zehn Variationen über ein Präludium von Chopin (1922) BV 213a :^ Fünf kurze Stücke zur Pflege des polyphonen Spiels auf dem Pianoforte. [Five short pieces for the cultivation of polyphonic playing on the piano.] Listed in this recording as Seven Short Pieces for the Cultivation of Polyphonic Playing (1923) BV 296 :::1.
Her mother was Anna J. Thomson and she had one brother Robert Stanley Thomson. She married Alexander Mathew McKean Sept. 17, 1917 at Lafayette Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, and had a daughter, Elaine (May 4, 1924) and son, Robert Alexander (September 25, 1918). Amy Thomson attended high school in Boston where she studied with Felix Fox at the Fox-Buonamici School of Pianoforte at 403 Marlborough Street.
Loewe wrote five operas, of which only one, ', was performed at Berlin in 1834, without much success; seventeen oratorios, many of them for male voices unaccompanied, or with short instrumental interludes only; choral ballads, cantatas, three string quartets (his opus 24,) and a pianoforte trio;in G minor, his opus 12, broadcast – see here a work for clarinet and piano, published posthumously; and some piano solos. But the branch of his art by which he is remembered is the solo ballad with pianoforte accompaniment. His treatment of long narrative poems, in a clever mixture of the dramatic and lyrical styles, was undoubtedly modelled on the ballads of Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, and has been copied by many composers since his day. His settings of the "Erlkönig" (a very early example), "Archibald Douglas" on a text by Theodor Fontane, "", "Edward" on a text by Johann Gottfried Herder, and "", are particularly fine.
J. E. Felumb's piano factory J. E. Felumb, a piano maker, purchased the entire building in 1882 and converted it into a piano factory and piano shop. Emil Felumb had been born in 1842 as the son of a goldsmith. He was educated as a pianoforte builder in Copenhagen, London, Paris and Switzerland. In 1872, he developed a special piano that Niels W. Gade was very fond of.
Harold Samuel was born in London and studied at the Royal College of Music there - piano with the eminent scholar and pianist Edward Dannreuther and composition with Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. Later he was on its faculty as professor of pianoforte. Harold Samuel was particularly distinguished as an interpreter of Bach, whose entire keyboard oeuvre he learned by heart.Paul Kildea, Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century, p.
Blaney was born Norah Mignon Cordwell in Shepherd's Bush, London on 16 July 1893. Her father, Walter Henry Cordwell was a musician and her mother was Mary Jane (Molly), née Thatcher. In 1906 she was awarded the Erard pianoforte scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music followed by a scholarship at the Royal College of Music. She began using her stage name in 1910, after her maternal grandmother.
Epstein was born in Zagreb, Croatia. He was married to Amalija (née Mautner) Epstein with whom he had a son Richard Epstein, a notable Zagreb pianist and music pedagogue. Epstein was a pupil at Agram of the choir-director Vatroslav Lichtenegger, and in Vienna of Johann Rufinatscha (composition) and Anton Halm (pianoforte). He made his début in 1852, and soon became one of the most popular pianists and teachers in Vienna.
The opera, Le Droit de seigneur taken for a work by Saint-Georges is in fact by J-P. E. Martini: (one aria contributed by Saint-Georges, mentioned in 1784 by Mercure, is lost). A Symphony in D by "Signor di Giorgio" in the British Library, arranged for pianoforte, as revealed by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma is by the Earl of Kelly, using a nom de plume.
Terence Judd was born in 1957 to English-American parents, Anthony and Gloria Judd. In 1967, aged 10, he won the National Junior Pianoforte Competition, and came to the attention of Eileen Joyce, who supported and encouraged him.Eileen Joyce (1908-1991) Timeline He also studied with Maria Curcio, the last and favourite pupil of Artur Schnabel.The Guardian, 14 April 2009 In London he also studied with Ezra Rachlin, (1915-1995).
Among his partners: Carla Fracci, Sylvie Guillelme, Laurent Hilaire, Enrico Maria Salerno, Simona Marchini,Croce e delizia... signora mia! Storie di vita vissuta... per pianoforte e voce recitante. Simona Marchini, Paolo Restani Mariano Rigillo, Gottfried Wagner. In partnership with Chiara Muti, in the last seasons, he created three original musical plays on the life of Mozart, on the relationships between Richard Wagner and Ludwig II, on Rachmaninov and Gogol.
He was commissioned to write a new piece for the Elite Section in the Swedish Brass Band Festival of 2008. The piece is called 'Swedish Festival Music' and was premiered at SBBF in November 2008. As he was the "guest of honour" at the festival, all the other sections used his works as well. He lives in Devon with his wife Patricia, who is also a musician, teaching pianoforte and singing.
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, L. Blanchard, S. Godolphin, Mrs. Hemans, etc (1850) # The Queen of a day quadrille. [P.F.] (1854) # "Hope is still a fair deceiver." Romance ... the poetry by J. B. Buckstone (1844) # The Scots Fusiliers March ... for the pianoforte (1853) # When should lovers breathe their vows, ballad in Buckstone's opera Love's alarms ... the poetry by L. E. L[andon] (1854) # Come let me press thee to my breast.
Dusík ( 1984), p. xxiii Dussek was one of the first piano virtuosos to travel widely throughout Europe. He performed at courts and concert venues from London to Saint Petersburg to Milan, and was celebrated for his technical prowess. During a nearly ten-year stay in London, he was instrumental in extending the size of the pianoforte, and was the recipient of one of John Broadwood's first 6-octave pianos, CC-c4.
He began studying the piano at the age of 5 and had achieved grade 8 Pianoforte, Theory of Music and Pipe Organ by the age of 13. During his teenage years, he studied piano with Harry Isaacs (Royal Academy of Music), and organ with Horace Bate (Organist at St James' Church, Muswell Hill and conductor of The Madrigal Society of London), and continued to have lessons through his years at university.
Alessio Bax is an Italian classical pianist. Bax was born in 1977 in Bari, Italy, and graduated from the Bari conservatory at the age of 14. He won the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan at age 19 and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition in 2000 after first participating in 1993. Bax was a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's CMS Two for three seasons, beginning in 2009.
Ada Jane Rohu was born on 16 March 1848 in London. Her parents were Jane Catharine Tost, an English taxidermist and museum worker, and Charles Gottleibe Tost, a Prussian pianoforte-maker. The family migrated from England to Tasmania when Ada was seven years old, arriving in Hobart Town in January 1856. In 1860 they moved to Sydney, where Jane Tost worked as a taxidermist at the Australian Museum.
Regarding the difficulty to unite different interests within the organization, the cooperation wasn't fit for the future. Wilhelm Arno Schimmel left the cooperation and founded the “Wilhelm Schimmel, Pianoforte GmbH” 1932 in Braunschweig, Germany. For the 50th company jubilee, Schimmel developed a small piano without back posts and a newly designed action. The Modell J 50, contemporary trend design was one of the most important new constructions of the 1930s.
The Conservatory became in effect a shrine to Mendelssohn's musical legacy. The critic and pianist Edward Dannreuther, who studied under Moscheles at Leipzig between 1859 and 1863, later wrote: > [...] it was whispered that the two old Grands in the pianoforte-room of the > Conservatorium were wont to rehearse Mendelssohn's D minor Concerto all > alone by themselves, from 12.30 on Sunday night until cock-crow! Force of > habit, probably.Anon. (1898), p. 647.
A large assortment of her memorabilia and recordings constitutes a Special Collection in the Lovejoy Library as SIUe. She married again in 1967, this time to a fellow faculty member and professor of political science at Southern Illinois. In 1957 she published a book of memoirs, Forbidden Childhood, which deals with life as a child prodigy, and a book on piano technique, Music at Your Fingertips: Aspects of Pianoforte Technique.
Renosto later dedicated to Maderna's memory the composition "Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra" (1975). Renosto was author of symphonic, choral, chamber, solo and incidental music compositions. He was also a musical critic and historian, and he collaborated with RAI as creator and host of several radio programs dedicated to contemporary classical music. He also composed, sometimes under the pseudonym Lesiman, theme music for films, TV-programs and documentaries.
He attended the Moscow Conservatory (which he left in 1915), where he was a pupil of Nikolai Zhilyayev, Sergei Taneyev and Sergei Vasilenko (theory), Alexander Ilyinsky (composition) and Konstantin Igumnov (pianoforte). His early music revealed the influence of Nikolai Medtner and Alexander Scriabin. He was appointed Professor at the Moscow Conservatory in 1923.These details from A. Eaglefield-Hull, A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians (Dent, London 1924).
Alfred J. Hipkins "The History of the Pianoforte" Scientific American Supplement no. 385. Munn & Co. New York. 1883 In this action a flexible tie fastened to the hammer butt and to a wire mounted on the crank lever has the same function as the dog spring from the 1826 double action. The crank lever also operated a check working against an extension of the hammer butt and raised the damper wire.
Kinderman, William, Beethoven, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. 212. In February 1820, in a letter to the publisher Simrock, he mentioned "grand variations", as yet incomplete. Then he laid the work aside for several years – something Beethoven rarely did – while he returned to the Missa Solemnis and the late piano sonatas. In June 1822, Beethoven offered to his publisher Peters "Variations on a waltz for pianoforte alone (there are many)".
The traditional composition with Danilo Lorenzini will continue also. At the same time, he will study in private also with Bruno Bettinelli, teacher of Claudio Abbado, Maurizio Pollini, Riccardo Muti etc. In 1997 the diploma in pianoforte under the guide of Leonardo Leonardi, first pianist of Salvatore Accardo. In 2001 he begin the course of specialization in piano under the guide of Paolo Bordoni in the musical high Academy of Pescara.
Vaughan Williams published the tune and these lyrics in 1913. However, for the 1928 Oxford publication, he used different lyrics; the ones commonly sung today. These lyrics he largely got from renowned folk music revivalist Cecil J Sharp, as well as some from nineteenth century printed sources. Sharp's collection of lyrics were published in his 1916 book English Folk Songs, Collected and Arranged with Pianoforte Accompaniment by Cecil J Sharp.
He also composed and printed pianoforte and dance music. About 1844 he succeeded his father as organist of St. Mary's Church, Truro (which later became Truro Cathedral). He was one of the first to introduce into Cornwall choral performances on a large scale. On 11 February 1855 he matriculated from Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and on the 15th of the same month took the degree of bachelor in music.
Dr. Joachim Reinhuber The pianist and musicologist argued in his thesis and his 2010 book Beethoven al piano (new Italian edition: Beethoven al pianoforte, 2014) that Beethoven might not have been the person who gave the piece the form that we know today. Chiantore suggested that the original signed manuscript, upon which Ludwig Nohl claimed to base his transcription, may never have existed.Luca Chiantore: Beethoven al piano. Barcelona: Nortesur, 2010, p.
As an accommodation to his family in America he modified his name to George Dowling Mackay or G. D. Mackay. He lived with Ruth Coney Mackay on Cambridge Street near Parkman's Market. In 1815, the firm known as "Boston Musical Instrument Manufactory" was opened at 6 Milk Street by the Hayt brothers, Babcock and Appleton.Grafing, K.G. Alpheus Babcock American Pianoforte Maker (1785-1842), his life, instruments and patents. Dissertation.
Broderip lived at Bristol during the latter part of the eighteenth century. He was a relation of John Broderip, organist of Wells Cathedral, probably either a brother or son, and also of Francis Broderip (d. 1807) who was a bookseller and publisher at 13 Haymarket, and who was one of the founders of the firm of Longman & Broderip, pianoforte makers and music publishers. Next to nothing is known of Broderip's biography.
Kammer-Fantasie über Bizets Carmen (1920) BV 284 :^ Drei Albumblätter (1917–1921) BV 289 :^ Notturni. Prologo (1918) BV 279 :^ Perpetuum mobile (1922)BV 293 :CD 6: :^ An die Jugend (1909) BV 254 :^ Sieben kurze Stücke zur Pflege des polyphonischen Spiels auf dem Pianoforte (1923) BV 296 :^ Prélude et Etude en Arpèges (1923) BV 297 :^ Toccata. Preludio – Fantasia – Ciaconna (1920) BV 287 ::Geoffrey Douglas Madge, piano Busoni. Fantasia contrappuntistica.
Piano tuning became a profession around the beginning of the 1800s, as the "pianoforte" became mainstream. Previously musicians owned harpsichords, which were much easier to tune, and which the musicians generally tuned themselves. Early piano tuners were trained and employed in piano factories, and often underwent an apprenticeship of about 5–7 years. Early tuners faced challenges related to a large variety of new and changing pianos and non-standardized pitches.
A son, Alexander Robert Reinagle, musician, born at Brighton on 11 August 1799, was from 1823 to 1853 organist of St. Peter's-in- the-East, Oxford, and died at Kidlington, Oxfordshire, where he was buried on 6 April 1877. He published Psalm Tunes for the Voice and Pianoforte (circa 1830), in which appears the tune 'St. Peter,' widely used, and included in most church collections of the late nineteenth century.
91 referring to an 1842 patent by this manufacturer that Edgar Brinsmead dubbed the "tape-check action" in the 1879 edition of his History of the Pianoforte,Edgar Brinsmead History of the Pianoforte Novello, Ewer & Co. London 1879. p.167 in which the last claim was for methods coupling the damper and hammer.Robert Wornum "Pianofortes" English Patent No. 9,262 enrolled August 15, 1842 The same year Gilbert was assigned tuner Edwin Fobes' patent for manufacturing hammers with a layer of soft leather covering a block of cork glued to the top portion of the hammer molding.Edwin Fobes "Manner of constructing the Hammer-heads used in Pianofortes" United States Patent no. 1,971 February 10, 1841 Gilbert also licensed the Aeolian attachment patented by independent mechanic Obed. Coleman in 1844, which fitted a simple reed organ onto the bottom plank of an ordinary square piano, arranged to be played directly by the keys of the piano.
The compositional process of the last sonatas can be studied owing to the almost complete survival of their manuscripts. According to these, the sonatas were written in two stages – a preliminary sketch (the first draft) and a full, mature final version (the fair copy).The sketches are held in the City Library of Vienna; the final versions are in a private collection (M. J. E. Brown, "Towards an Edition of the Pianoforte Sonatas", p. 215).
During a visit by his cousin Ludwig II of Bavaria, Ludwig saw some sheet music on Maximilian Joseph's piano by the composer Richard Wagner, which led on to Ludwig's financial support for Wagner from 1863. Maximilian Joseph's musical compositions have been collected in the work: Die im Druck erschienenen Kompositionen von Herzog Maximilian in Bayern: Ländler, Walzer, Polka, Schottisch, Mazurka, Quadrillen und Märsche für Pianoforte, Zither, Gitarre oder Streichinstrumente (München: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler, 1992).
Elvey was a prolific writer of church music. Besides the anthems already mentioned, his chants, his "Cantate Domino," a "Deus misereatur" in D, were among his most popular compositions. He also wrote fifteen part songs, an introduction and gavotte for piano and violin, and four pianoforte pieces. His works, which are nearly all for the Church, include two oratorios, a great number of anthems and services, psalm chants and some pieces for the organ.
With William Whalley, basket-maker, his father-in-law, he was committed to the assizes for trial in July 1861., but was found not guilty. He was in court again 3 years later when he appeared at the Petty Sessions on 3 May 1864 when he was found to have not paid the poor rates. In the 1870s he traded on Scalford Road in Melton Mowbray as an Organ Builder, Pianoforte and Harmonium Manufacturer.
He acquired the best pianoforte of Mexico City to teach the local aristocracy. One of his pupils was Ana María de Huarte y Muñiz who later became the wife of Agustín de Iturbide, the emperor of the First Mexican Empire. In 1822, Elízaga was appointed ¨maestro de capilla¨ (Kapellmeister) of the Capilla Imperial. In 1823 he published his Elementos de música in Mexico city, a copy can be found in the Biblioteca Nacional in Mexico.
12; Beaumont, p. 358. ^ BV 61: Sonata No. 2 in D major Op. 8, for piano :MS: SB67 (Title page; 21 pages score; 1 blank page) ::Comprises: :::1) Allegro con fuoco :::2) Andante con Variazione: Andante con moto quasi Andantino :::3) Andante - Allegro Vivace ::Title: Sonata No. 2 in Re magg: Composta per il pianoforte. Op. 8 da Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni ::Date: il 5 Luglio 1877 in Gmunden all' età di anni 11.
Stott's career as a soloist was launched after she gained fifth place in the Leeds International Piano Competition in 1978.Leeds International Pianoforte Competition: Previous Finalists (accessed 5 December 2008) Her London début was at the Purcell Room the same year. She has since toured throughout Europe, Asia, America and Australia with a concert repertoire that encompasses concertos, solo piano music and chamber music. She is unusual in always performing from a score.
He studied at Bonn and Berlin; was a professor of architecture at the Berlin Bauakademie (1857–61) and a professor of art history at the Polytechnic in Zurich (1861–66), the Polytechnic in Stuttgart (1866–85), and the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe (1885–93).ADB:Lübke, Wilhelm In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, S. 106–111. Previous to his work in art, he gave instruction in vocal and pianoforte music.
Reliefs on the sides of the entrance doorway depicted scenes celebrating music and poetry. Cadby called the building the Cadby & Company Pianoforte Manufactory. The arrangement of buildings in the complex was designed primarily to prevent the spread of fire by confining it to one building should such an incident occur. Cadby lived for a time in what is now known as Keats House, previously owned by the poet John Keats in Hampstead.
Several new instruments, including the piano, were introduced during this period. The invention of the piano is credited to Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731) of Padua, Italy, who was employed by Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, as the Keeper of the Instruments. Cristofori named the instrument un cimbalo di cipresso di piano e forte ("a keyboard of cypress with soft and loud"), abbreviated over time as pianoforte, fortepiano, and later, simply, piano.
Their daughter, Elisabeth Klein (1828–1899) married Egyptologist Carl Richard Lepsius (1810–1883) on 5 July 1846. In 1812 he went to Paris and became a pupil of Luigi Cherubini.A Dictionary of Pianists and Composers for the Pianoforte: With an Appendix of Manufacturers of the Instrument by Ernst Pauer, published by Novello in 1895 (via Google Books). P.59. Klein was the director of music at Cologne Cathedral after studying at the Paris Conservatory.
A second example of rubato used at a singing moment is in his Second Piano Concerto. In a similar situation, the melody leaps up to three A-flat played consecutively and the rubato marked tells the player to perform them in a singing quality. F. Chopin, Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2, Sämtliche Pianoforte-Werke, Band I, C.F.Peters, 1905, image form imslp. Chopin primarily marks rubato to emphasize expressive melodic lines or repetition.
Aleksander Michałowski Aleksander Michałowski (17 October 1938) was a Polish pianist, pedagogue and composer who, in addition to his own immense technique, had a profound influence upon the teaching of pianoforte technique, especially in relation to the works of Chopin and J.S. Bach, and left this legacy among a large number of pupils.The text of this article is derived mainly from Eaglefield-Hull and Methuen-Campbell, the cited sources, with notes for specific citations.
The 24-year-old opted for a Viennese education. Carl Czerny happily took over his pianistic schooling, and Otto Nicolai and Simon Sechter, the theoretical side of things. Franz Liszt and Adolf von Henselt were also highly revered influences. Kullak played a little in Austria that year but in 1843 returned to Berlin where Fraulein von Hellwig secured him the post of pianoforte instructor to Princess Anna, the daughter of Prince Karl.
Ciampi was taught by Louis Diémer at the Paris Conservatoire and won the first prize for pianoforte in 1909. He had a career as a concert pianist, appearing with orchestras in France, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Prague, Warsaw, Sofia and Athens. He worked with Claude Debussy. He turned to teaching and had a particular influence on Hephzibah Menuhin and her sister Yaltah Menuhin. He accepted Yaltah at age four, after hearing her play Robert Schumann’s Kinderszenen.
Engaged to play at the Oxford concerts, he was so well received that he settled in the city and died there in November 1825. Reinagle was a very able violoncellist, and enjoyed a wide popularity. Nathaniel Gow was one of his Edinburgh pupils. He composed a good deal of music for violin, violoncello, and pianoforte, and wrote a Concise Introduction to the Art of playing the Violoncello (London, 1830), which went through four editions.
Crombie 1995:18-19. Instead of raising and lowering the lid, the swell was sometimes operated by opening and closing slots in the sides of the piano case. Often called "the father of the pianoforte", Muzio Clementi was a composer and musician who founded a piano-building company, and was active in the designing of the pianos that his company built. The Clementi piano firm was later renamed Collard and Collard in 1830, two years before Clementi's death.
13 mins 2 fl, 2 ob, 2 bn, strings, cembalo This is a chamber concerto, which could be played with a single person per part. The solo part is well integrated into the whole, and the music has an effervescent bounce. The slow movement is mainly orchestral and the finale is something of a Minuet with a Trio featuring wind solos. Published by Edition Tonger, Köln - Rodenkirchen, Germany Divertimento pour Pianoforte, Clarinetto, Viola et Violoncello, c1780 1\.
After the deaths of Bonucci and Carmirelli, Luigi Sagrati became the main force behind the success of the Quintetto Boccherini, which ceased its activities in the 1990s, when he had to stop performing professionally because of his age. Sagrati also founded the Brahms Quartet for strings and piano with Piero Masi (pianoforte), Marco Scano (Cello) and Montserrat Cervera (violin). With both groups he completed many tournées in Europe and around the world, including thirteen in North America.
He was a director of the Cowells Patent Lock Company and the Bruer Pianoforte Company amongst others, and invested in startup companies of local inventors. He was a leading Freemason, president of the Soldiers' Home League, the School of Arts and Crafts and the Myrtle Bank Home and prominent in many other associations. His widow and daughter presented the Royal Geographical Society with a brass surveyor's level, made by Troughton & Simms, and reputedly used by Colonel William Light.
In spite of the name, a minipiano is not a toy piano but is instead a patented alternative designed to compete with larger and heavier instruments. The ‘Pianette’ model was the first of its kind. The development of the pianoforte included many experiments in the size and layout of the instrument. As Hammered Dulcimers developed into Clavichords which in turn influenced the development of the Harpsichord, many sub-families developed as instrument-makers experimented with new techniques and ideas.
Copinger played several instruments, including the pianoforte and violin, and found time to compose a number of musical pieces, amongst which is a collection of seventy-five original hymn tunes. This collection, the Contributions to the Hymnody of the Church, was first published in 1883 with thirty-five hymns in 1883 and enlarged to seventy-five hymns in 1885.Tim Grass, The Lord's Work: A History of the Catholic Apostolic Church, 2017, p. 205 and 344.
Cobbe portrait of Shakespeare The house is home to the Cobbe Collection; with forty two historic keyboard instruments it is the world's largest group of its kind. Many of the instruments are associated with famous composers. The instruments include harpsichords and fortepianos dating from 1750 to 1840 - including an Erard pianoforte reputedly made for Marie Antoinette. It is one of the few French instruments of the time to escape destruction for firewood following the 1789 revolution.
Ebenezer R. Currier "Horizontal Pianoforte" United States Patent no. X6507 April 22, 1831; Spillane drew attention to this patent for its suggestion of a seven octave compass in a square before 1840 - Daniel Spillane History of the American Piano-forte D. Spillane, New York 1890 p.96 International Musical Instruments, Inc. of Marion, North Carolina registered the Currier name for use on pianos in 1969, and were purchased by the Kaman Corporation and reorganized as Currier Piano Company, Inc.
Announcements, Posters, and various Opinions of the City of Orléans, 23 December 1791, . then of the National Guard. In 1799, he was appointed by the municipality to play the organ as an amateur at Republican festivals, in the various "temples" (the old churches) where they were held: the plain-song gave way to the "war song". At the beginning of the 19th century (1802?), Demar became "master of [pianoforte]" in the Maison d'éducation de Mme Robillard, in Orléans.
Post first toured with theatre orchestras, visiting New Zealand in 1924 with one of J.C. Williamson Ltd's musical-comedy companies. By 1926 Post was teaching oboe and cor anglais at the conservatorium; later, he also offered tuition in piano. He graduated in 1927 with diplomas in performance and teaching (pianoforte). Despite such auspicious beginnings, he did not see his vocation as a teacher nor as an orchestral musician, but chose to build a career as a conductor.
Guido Maggiorino Gatti (1892–1973) was an Italian music critic and founder of the journal Il Pianoforte, which changed its name to La Rassegna Musicale in 1928. He was director of the Turin Theater from 1925–31 and general director of the first Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Contributor to several Italian musical encyclopedias and other reference works, he also produced monographs of Bizet (1915) and Pizzetti (1934). His fifty-eight-year correspondence with Malipiero has been published.
The opening of Dussek's Grand Sonata in F minor, Op. 77. Dussek was one of a number of foreign-born composers, including Muzio Clementi and John Field, who contributed significantly to the development of a distinct "London" school of pianoforte composition. In part, this was due to the particular nature of piano manufacture in England. Joseph Haydn, for instance, composed his famous E-flat sonata after playing a piano of greater range lent to him by Dussek.
He then studied in London with George Malcolm, a pioneer in the use of period keyboard instruments; Schiff made a recording with Malcolm of four-hand music by Mozart using a fortepiano that once belonged to the composer. He also studied piano and chamber music with György Kurtág. Schiff was fourth prize winner of the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in 1974 and third prize winner of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition in 1975. He emigrated from Hungary in 1979.
From 1882 to 1886 he was engaged in concert tours and teaching in Australia, after which he went to New York City, where he lived for some time. He died there in 1916. His works include the operas Vanda (1875), Lanzelot (1890), King Arthur (1893), and Buddha (1904); an oratorio, The Captivity (1891); the cantatas The Young King and the Sheperdess and The Diver; several masses, symphonies, violin and pianoforte concertos, and sonatas, besides duets, songs, and chamber music.
Bordes was born in La Roche-Corbon, Indre-et-Loire. He studied pianoforte with Antoine François Marmontel and composition with César Franck. He was organist and Maître de chapelle at Nogent-sur-Marne from 1887 to 1890. In 1890 he became maître de chapelle at the Église Saint-Gervais in Paris, where he created the Saint-Gervais Singers Choir, and in 1892 organised The Saint-Gervais Holy Weeks in which Mass was accompanied by French or Italian renaissance music.
"Broadcast Talks", The Times, 8 September 1933, p. 10 In 1928 he completed the three compositions required for the award of a Dmus: A Passer-By (a rhapsody for baritone, chorus and orchestra), a Fantasy Quintet for pianoforte and strings, and Friends Departed (for soprano, chorus and orchestra). From 1928 to 1933 he was organist of Exeter Cathedral, a post he held in tandem with the directorship of music at the University College of the South West.
Hipkins account of Hawkins' instrument in the 1890 Encyclopædia Britannica described that it was "poor in the tone.""Pianoforte" The Encyclopædia Britannica 9th edition, Vol. XIX The Henry G. Allen Company, 1890 p. 75 In 1820 Wornum patented a system of equal tension for pianos (and "certain other stringed instruments") that he specified would be achieved by employing "one size steel wire throughout", and in the shortened wrapped bass strings also by adjusting the size of the windings.
On 6 March 2015 Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya and Kouznetsova played the opening concert of the Zaandijk Pianoforte Festival in the Netherlands. In June 2015 she was scheduled to compete at the XII International Violin Competition Pablo Sarasate in Spain. In 2016 Kouznetsova reached the second round of the Carl Nielsen international music competition held with the Odense Symphony Orchestra in Denmark. During 2017 the Hattori Foundation awarded Kouznetsova a prize along with cellist Jamal Aliyev and other violinists.
Lev Vlassenko was a jury member in many international piano competitions. They include the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, the Sydney International Piano Competition, the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, the Liszt Piano Competition in Budapest, the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv and others. Lev Vlassenko became the President of the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition jury in 1994. He also headed the “International Association of Tchaikovsky Competition Stars”.
Logo MA Festival from 2020 The MA Festival Brugge, short for the festival Musica Antiqua Bruges in Bruges, Belgium, is a festival of early music and historically informed performances, started in 1960. The program includes concerts, master classes, conferences, visits in the region, exhibitions, instrument market, and international competitions that concentrates in a three-year cycle on organ, harpsichord, pianoforte and other period instruments, vocals, and baroque ensembles. The specialised festival is part of the Festival of Flanders.
After this he continued his studies with Henri Marteau in Berlin and Lucien Capet in Paris. Sõrmus spent World War I in Paris and London, after which he returned to Russia for a couple of years and then toured the continent again. One concert was held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1934 where his wife, Virginia, played the pianoforte. He died in a nursing home in Moscow whilst his wife, Virginia, was visiting her family in Britain.
Diego Zucchinetti's Three Sonatas for the harpsichord or pianoforte with violin or flute belong to a genre—keyboard sonata with an accompanying melodic instrument—that was quite common by the late 18th century. They are all cast in three movements and show such a balanced distribution of musical material between the instruments, they can be virtually regarded as duets. Operatic passages and cantabile melodies link these pleasing specimens of late-century Italian instrumental music to their Neapolitan roots.
In 1842 Czerny published an autobiographical sketch, "Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben" ("Memories from My Life"). Other works by Czerny, apart from his compositions, include: his edition of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier; "Letters to a young lady, on the art of playing the pianoforte" ; his "School of Practical Composition" (published as his Op. 600); his edition of Domenico Scarlatti's sonatas (1840); and "On the proper performance of all Beethoven's works for piano" (1846).Mitchell (1980), p. 141.
On the other hand, some sonatas could equally have been called sonatinas: for example Beethoven's Op. 49, titled by the composer "Zwei Leichte Sonaten für das Pianoforte" ("Two Easy Sonatas for Piano") comprise only two short movements each, a sonata-allegro and a short rondo (No. 1) or minuet (No. 2), all well within the grasp of the intermediate student. However, other works titled "Sonatina", such as the Sonatina in F major, have been attributed to Beethoven.
After deciding to leave his business career for a career in music, he was appointed, in 1869, organist of Aldershot parish church. In 1875 he took up a position as organist of Hale church, near Farnham, and in 1879, of the parish church of Farnham. His published works include a sonata in E major for violin and pianoforte; this work was awarded the Sir Michael Costa prize by the Trinity College of Music, London. He died in April 1908.
Beethoven's studio (Johann Nepomuk Hoechle, 1827) Work on Op. 109 can be traced back to early in 1820, even before Beethoven's negotiations with Adolf Schlesinger, the publisher of his last three sonatas. Recent research suggests that Friedrich Starke had asked Beethoven for a composition for his piano anthology The Vienna Pianoforte School, and that Beethoven had interrupted work on the Missa Solemnis. In the end, though, he offered Starke numbers 7–11 of the Bagatelles, Op. 119.
On 16 September 2010, Williams performed during the Papal Mass at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, as part of Pope Benedict XI's tour of the United Kingdom. Currently, Williams remains a visiting pianoforte and organ tutor to students at the University of Aberdeen and the North East of Scotland Music School. He continues to perform across Aberdeenshire, to direct ensembles including the Aberdeen Diocesan Choir and undertaking further academic research on the music collections of Scottish castles and country houses.
After 1832 the pianos which had long borne the name of Clementi began to be called Collard & Collard, and many patents were in course of time taken out for improvements both in the action and the frame of the instruments. The firm soon gave up the business of music publishing, and confined themselves to pianoforte making, except that they had also the contract for supplying bugles, fifes, and drums to the regiments of the East India Company until 1858, when the government of India was transferred to the queen. About this time a novelty was brought out, which was suggested by an article in Chambers's Journal, a piano of the cottage class styled pianoforte for the people, which was sold in considerable numbers. To the Great Exhibition of 1851 Collard sent a grand, for which the musical jury awarded the council medal, but this award was not confirmed, owing to some feeling of jealousy. The firm suffered twice from large fires; on 20 March 1807 the manufactory in Tottenham Court Road was burnt to the ground, and on 10 Dec.
Only one mirror should be included in the room and it should be circular and hung "so that a reflection of the person can be obtained from it in none of the ordinary sitting-places of the room." He also calls for two large sofas with crimson silk decorated with a modest gold flower pattern with matching "conversation chairs." A rose-wood pianoforte should be left with keys visible. The room should also have an octagonal marble table, left uncovered.
In 1894, he became a professor at the Royal College of Music, and remained in that position until 1903. He had many successful European tours, and was also extremely popular in England. Korbay wrote many pianoforte pieces and songs, but he was best known by his collections of Magyar folk songs, which attained a very wide popularity, among which Mohac's Field may be mentioned in particular.Mohac's Field He died in London, which for many years was his home, March 9, 1913.
In 2008, Cheung won second prize at the Alessandro Casagrande International Piano Competition in Terni, Italy. In September 2009 she won fifth prize at the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, the best result a Hong Kong pianist has achieved in this prestigious competition. She was also a semi-finalist at the XVI International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in October 2010. In November 2012, Cheung was awarded the George Leibenson Special Prize at the 67th Geneva International Music Competition in Piano.
Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer In 1809, Johann David's son Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer (1786-1860), together with Carl Dieudonné, founded the firm of Dieudonné & Schiedmayer in Stuttgart. The firm soon became well known in the area. When the composer Friedrich Silcher moved to Stuttgart, he lived for two years in Schiedmayer’s home. After the death of Dieudonné, the workshop was renamed Schiedmayer Pianofortefabrik, and after 1845, when Adolf and Hermann Schiedmayer, the older sons of Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer, joined the firm, Schiedmayer & Sons, Pianoforte Factory.
Francisco Santiago (January 29, 1889 - September 28, 1947) was a Filipino musician, sometimes called The Father of Kundiman Art Song. Santiago was born in Santa Maria, Bulacan, Philippines, to musically-minded peasant parents, Felipe Santiago and Maria Santiago. In 1908, his first composition, Purita, was dedicated to the first Carnival Queen, Pura Villanueva, who later married the distinguished scholar Teodoro Kalaw. Santiago's masterpiece was the "Concerto in B flat minor" for pianoforte and orchestra and his most famous piece "Kundiman, (Anak-Dalita)".
After the Cuban Revolution, the members of the Quinteto Instrumental remained in Havana, and in 1962 they took part in the Festival de Música Popular Cubana (Cuban Popular Music Festival) organized by Odilio Urfé. During the 1960s, the band would record several albums and EPs for EGREM. Flynn's solo career continued to thrive with albums such as Danzas cubanas and Música de Cervantes, also recorded for EGREM. He also recorded music for Pianoforte, an EGREM album also featuring pianists Peruchín and Adolfo Guzmán.
Victor Charles Paul Dourlen (3 November 1780 – 8 January 1864) was a French composer and music teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris during the first half of the nineteenth century. He is primarily known as a theorist on account of his treatises on harmony, based on the methods of Charles Simon Catel, which were widely used as reference works, especially his Traité d'harmonie (c. 1838), the Traité d'accompagnement pratique (c. 1840), and his Méthode élémentaire pour le pianoforte (c. 1820).
Hwang Yau-tai and family in Hong Kong, 1955. Hwang had three daughters, Mimi, Jane, and Nancy, to whom he dedicated his 1988 songbook, Lyrical Pieces for Piano Solo (with Vocal Score). In 1960, Hwang composed two songs for his 11-year-old daughter Nancy, who showed him some of her poems. "Death of a Deer" and "Luckless Day" for mezzo-soprano solo and pianoforte accompaniment were published later in 1967 by Lucky Music Copy Service in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Miller was the son of a pavior, but left home to study music, from Dr. Burney, who was then at King's Lynn. For a time he was a flautist in Handel's orchestra. In 1752, he published 'Six Solos for the German Flute' (London). On 25 July 1756, he was appointed organist of St George's Minster Doncaster in 1756 and continued in the post for 50 years, on the recommendation of James Nares, and he supplemented his resources by giving lessons on the pianoforte.
Thomas Harold Hunt Craxton, OBE (30 April 188530 March 1971) was an English pianist and composer. Craxton studied piano at the Tobias Matthay Pianoforte School and made a name for himself early in his career as an accompanist with performers such as Dame Nellie Melba, Dame Clara Butt, Lionel Tertis and John McCormack. In 1919 he became a professor at the Royal Academy of Music. He remained there until 1961, although he continued teaching from his studio long into his later years.
The Institute grants the following degrees in sacred music: Bachelor (3 years), Licentiate (2 years) and a Doctorate. The degrees are offered with one of the following foci: Gregorian chant, composition, choral direction, musicology, pipe organ and pianoforte. Instruction in Italian is offered in harmony, counterpoint, fugue, composition, acoustics, music history and analysis, musicology, bibliography, research methods, ethno-musicology, editing of music, notation, Gregorian chant, liturgics, piano, pipe organ, score reading, continuo (figured bass), keyboard improvisation, choral conducting and Latin.
She also coached singers at Josef Krips's request when he conducted the Netherlands Opera. In the meantime, Peter Diamand had been appointed director of the Edinburgh Festival and they had moved to the UK. She served on the jury of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition in 1966. She was appointed Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music, University of London. She played privately with Sir Clifford Curzon, who had introduced her to Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and their circle in 1947.
Paganini's theme Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 35, is a work for piano composed in 1863 by Johannes Brahms, based on the Caprice No. 24 in A minor by Niccolò Paganini. Brahms intended the work to be more than simply a set of theme and variations; each variation also has the characteristic of a study. He published it as Studies for Pianoforte: Variations on a Theme of Paganini. The work was dedicated to the piano virtuoso Carl Tausig.
The buildings occupied by The Pier Arts Centre are firmly rooted in the history of Orkney. The house fronting the street was built in the 18th century, and during much of the 19th century was occupied by Edward Clouston, a prosperous merchant and Agent of the Hudson's Bay Company. On the pier behind the house Clouston erected stores and offices. On the first floor of his house, he had a finely panelled drawing room, furnished with books, family portraits and a pianoforte.
The Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major, K. 415 (387b) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in Vienna in 1782–83. It is the third of the first three full concertos Mozart composed for his subscription concerts. It consists of three movements: #Allegro, in C major and common (C) time #Andante, in F major and 3/4 time #Allegro, in C major and 6/8 time The average duration of performance of Concerte für das Pianoforte (vol. 2, no.
Mueller's piano was described in the 1810 Oekonomische Encyklopädie as having a tone similar to a basset horn, and he offered a tandem model for performing duets he called the Ditanaklasis"Pianoforte" Oekonomische Encyklopädie vol.113, Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1810 pp. 9-20 while Hawkins' piano featured a complete iron frame with an open back, a large, independent sounding board, and bass strings in the form of coil springs and it included mechanical tuners, a retractable keyboard, and a metallic upper bridge.
He began studying piano at the age of five, giving his USSR debut performance with an orchestra just two years later. He won several prizes while at the Vilnius School of Music, including the First Prize at the Virtuosi per Musica di Pianoforte International Competition in Ústí nad Labem (Czech Republic) in 1991. This was followed by more awards at international music competitions in Lithuania, Poland and Russia. Chaimovich is a graduate with honors from a few conservatoires of music.
"Outside of Heaven" was the first UK hit for Fisher, and only the fourth single to top the, then fledgling, UK chart. Alberto Semprini, on pianoforte with rhythm accompaniment, recorded it as the third melody of the medley "Dancing to the piano (No. 19) - Hit medley of waltzes" along with "The Love of My Life" and "Waltzing the Blues" in London on January 14, 1953. It was released by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalogue number B 10441\.
Gianni Mascolo (born 3 November 1940, in Milan) is an Italian singer, best known for his participation on behalf of Switzerland in the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest. At the age of 10, Mascolo joined the chorus of La Scala in Milan, remaining there for five years until his voice broke. He then studied at the Milan Conservatory, and graduated in pianoforte. He started singing in the Milan area, and was offered a recording contract with local label Ariston in 1964.
He was born in Thiedenwiese, near Hanover, and studied the pianoforte under Hummel. He emigrated to Manchester around 1844-45, and in 1850 settled in London, where he attained success as a teacher of music and writer on musical subjects. He owned a large collection of rare musical instruments, many of which were given after his death to the South Kensington Museum, with which he had been connected for many years. One of his nephews (a son of his sister Elisabeth) was Carl Peters (1856-1918).
From the Classical era, the two concertos by Joseph Haydn in C major and D major stand out, as do the five sonatas for cello and pianoforte of Ludwig van Beethoven, which span the important three periods of his compositional evolution. Other outstanding examples include the three Concerti by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Capricci by dall'Abaco, and Sonatas by Flackton, Boismortier, and Luigi Boccherini. A Divertimento for Piano, Clarinet, Viola and Cello is among the surviving works by Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel (1739–1807).
Marie Elisabeth was a student of the Conservatorium; she and Prince Alexander of Hesse, another royal pupil of Brahms, celebrated the birthday of musician Joachim Raff in Frankfurt in 1886. There, they interpreted Brahm's Sonata (Op. 78) for pianoforte and violin in a special feature for the ceremony. At the 1878 wedding of her elder brother Bernhard to Princess Charlotte of Prussia, eldest daughter of German Crown Prince Frederick, Marie Elisabeth composed a piece of music specially meant for the occasion entitled torch dance.
During 1875–1880, 1881–1883, and 1886–1889 he belonged to the Bergakademischen Senate. Gretschel wrote and lectured in a wide range of fields, publishing books about meteorology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geometry and cartography. He and Georg Bornemann wrote about the organization of the periodic table, published as Das Naturliche System der Elemente (1883). Gretschel also wrote about the construction of stringed instruments in the violin family and co-wrote a book on the construction of the pianoforte with Julius Blüthner, Lehrbuch des Pianofortebaues (1872).
Davis was trained in pianoforte and opera singing, and a self- taught xylophone player. She was a natural performer, and earned much success as a teenager doing elaborate stage presentations before film showings in silent movie theatres. Her remarkable skill earned her billings at theatres all over Melbourne, including the Victory in St. Kilda, the Renown in Elsternwick, and the Regent in Thornbury. Known as "Little Edna Davis: the Celebrated Child Xylophonist", her popularity led to her touring interstate in 1922, at just fifteen years old.
Thus, usages like "Cristofori invented the piano" or "Mozart's piano concertos" are currently common and would probably be considered acceptable by most musicians. Fortepiano is used in contexts where it is important to make the precise identity of the instrument clear, as in (for instance) "a fortepiano recital by Malcolm Bilson". The use of "fortepiano" to refer specifically to early pianos appears to be recent. Even the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary does not record this usage, noting only that "fortepiano" is "an early name of the pianoforte".
Significant translations by Hamilton included Cherubini's Counterpoint and Fugue, and treatises by Pierre Baillot, Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Carl Czerny, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Pierre Rode, and Johann Gottfried Vierling. His Pianoforte Tutor reached its 13th edition in 1849, and saw very frequent reprintings over half a century. Others publications by Hamilton were: Dictionary of ... Musical Terms (1836?); Invention, Exposition, Development, and Concatenation of Musical Ideas (1838); Johann Nepomuk Maelzel's Metronome; Friedrich Kalkbrenner's Handguide; Introduction to Choral Singing (1841); and Method for Double Bass. In parts vii.
In 1806, he created the Société des Concerts par Abonnement. Following the course of history, he was also organist of Saint-Paterne's church from 1815... In this context he was able to train "choir children" (boys singing in the professional choir) in the technique of the pianoforte and the organ. He left many interesting works, often instrumental. He is the author, among others, of several concertos for forte-piano, including a "hunting concerto", a Cossack concerto, a concerto dedicated to the Empress Marie-Louise.
Johann Sedlatzek encouraged his children in music from an early age. The August 1840 issue of The Musical World reviewed a June concert of that year at which: :"... the Misses Sedlatzek ( the eldest of whom is not yet 12 years of age), played several pieces on the pianoforte in excellent style. They have been grounded in music by their father, and also tutored by Pio Cianchetti, and the style of Clementi and Dussek might be easily traced in their performances."Novello, J. Alfredo (1840).
She soon brought out a translation of Kristofer Janson's Spell-Bound Fiddler, which was a true narrative of a real character, Torgeir Audunson, a violinist, who died in Telemark in 1872. The book was republished in London, England. She then assisted Anderson in the translation of Bjørnson's novels, and Georg Brandes' Eminent Authors. Those two pioneers in the translation of Norse literature published The Norway Music Album, a valuable collection of Norwegian folks-songs, dances, naturalairs, and recent compositions for the pianoforte and solo singing.
Having barely survived Joseph Stalin's purges, he became a professor at the Tbilisi Conservatory in 1942 and served as an artistic director of the Georgian State Symphony from 1941 to 1948. He became a major influence in musical politics as chair (1953), and first secretary (1955–1961, 1968–1972) of the Union of Georgian Composers. Balanchivadze’s numerous symphonies, pianoforte concerts, and compositions for the stage heavily contributed to modern Georgian classical music. He also authored the first Georgian ballet, The Heart of the Mountains (1936).
In May 2011, Earath started Initial Grade Piano of Trinity College, London. In a span of 1.5 years, by December 2012, he had completed the 8 grades in Pianoforte with distinction. He appeared for Associate of Trinity College, London (ATCL, equivalent in level to the first year of an undergraduate degree) in December 2013 and passed the exam with distinction. In December 2014, he passed Licentiate of Trinity College, London (LTCL, corresponding in level to the final year of an undergraduate degree) with distinction.
Deborah Mollison (born 29 May 1958) is a British composer and songwriter, who works in both the United Kingdom and the United States. She studied composition, piano and flute at the Royal Academy of Music where she won the Else Cross Prize for pianoforte. She then moved to UCLA and to Middlesex University where she received her PhD in music. Deborah Mollison is best known for her scores for films and television programmes, but she has a greater diversity of style: songs, jazz, rock and orchestral works.
After he had matriculated he went (from 1909 to 1914) to Vienna, to the atelier of Theodor Leschetizky, where he studied with Marie Prentner, the master's assistant. He gave many recitals in Polish towns, and also in Vienna, Prague and Berlin. In 1916 he became professor of advanced pianoforte classes at the Warsaw Conservatory, and continued to teach there until his death in 1971. He assisted in establishing the International Chopin Piano Competition, and served upon their juries from the first occasion, 1927, until 1971.
For the next seven years, Clementi lived, performed, and studied at the estate in Dorset. During this period, it appears, Clementi spent eight hours a day at the harpsichord, practising the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, George Frideric Handel, Domenico Scarlatti, Alessandro Scarlatti and Bernardo Pasquini. His only compositions dated to this period are the Sonatas WO 13 and 14 and the Sei Sonate per clavicembalo o pianoforte, Op. 1. In 1770 Clementi made his first public performance as an organist.
Though Beethoven had barely completed the composition, the piece received its first public performance at a concert in the Augarten on 24 May 1803, with Beethoven on pianoforte and Bridgetower on violin. Bridgetower had to read the violin part of the second movement from Beethoven's copy, over his shoulder. He made a slight amendment to his part, which Beethoven gratefully accepted, jumping up to say "" ("Once more, my dear fellow!"). Beethoven also presented Bridgetower with his tuning fork, now held by the British Library.
Gitta Alpár was born in Budapest, the daughter of a Jewish cantor. At an early age, she commenced the study of singing and pianoforte at the Academy of Budapest. Her first public appearance as a coloratura soprano under the name of Alpár was in 1923 at the Budapest State Opera House. The debut marked the beginning of a long career, promoted by eminent conductors such as Erich Kleiber, which led her singing at the great opera houses of Vienna, Berlin, and all over the world.
In Australia in 1953, it was recorded by Bob Gibson & His Orchestra, featuring vocalist Ross Higgins, on Pacific label catalogue number PB-086, backed with Have You Heard?. Semprini, pianoforte with Rhythm accompaniment recorded it in London on March 11, 1953, as the third song of the medley "Dancing to the piano (No. 20) - Hit medley of foxtrots" along with "Why Don't You Believe Me" and "Downhearted". The medley was released by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalog number B 10457\.
A Morning and Evening Service, twenty Original Melodies, and two Anthems, dedicated to the Hon. George Pelham, bishop of Lincoln, was published in 1820. For the use of his pupils in 1822 he printed an Introduction to the Pianoforte, comprising Elementary Instruction, with a series of Practical Lessons. Illustration for The Commercial Tourist, or Gentleman Traveller by Hempel, engraver Isaac Robert Cruikshank Hempel also became known as a poet in 1822 by his work entitled The Commercial Tourist, or Gentleman Traveller, a satirical poem in four cantos.
Philip, the eldest, early became a composer of ball-room music. About 1829 he took up his residence at Southampton, where, besides classical music, he produced a variety of ballads, of which the words were frequently his own. He was a brilliant performer on the pianoforte and violin, and in 1831 conducted Paganini's concert in Southampton. His lectures on music, given in literary institutions and other places, were always well attended, and his advocacy of the Hullah system (see John Pyke Hullah) met with much success.
Photograph of the Cora House in 1853 In 1852, Belle set up a parlor house on Washington street, in San Francisco, opposite the house of fellow madam, Ah Toy. Reverend William Taylor recounts the parlor house as being furnished with redwood, velvet, silk, demask, beautiful paintings and playing pianoforte, harp and melodeon. Belle hosted dinner parties with aldermen, judges, the mayor, and even members of the legislature. Even after an expensive legal battle and the lynching of her husband, Belle continued to run her brothel.
Willy Hess was born in Mannheim on 14 July 1859. He commenced the study of violin when only five years of age with his father, who was a pupil of Ludwig Spohr. When aged seven his family moved to the United States and as a youth he performed with his sister Joanna who accompanied him on pianoforte, making a number of successful tours around the country. In 1872 he moved back to Europe, spending a year in the Netherlands and performing in a number of continental cities.
Busoni asserts at the outset that he "regards the interpretation of Bach's organ pieces on the pianoforte as essential to a complete study of Bach." A typical Busoni remark appears as a footnote: "Musical commoners still delight in decrying modern virtuosi as spoilers of the classics; and yet Liszt and his pupils (Bülow, Tausig) have done things for spreading a general understanding for Bach and Beethoven beside which all theoretico-practical pedantry seems bungling, and all brow-puckering cogitations of stiffly solemn professors unfruitful."Busoni (1894), pp. 157.Sitsky (2008), pp. 304-305.
Leon McCawley (born 12 July 1973) is a British classical pianist. He studied with Heather Slade-Lipkin at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, and with Eleanor Sokoloff at The Curtis Institute of Music in the United States, and latterly pianist Nina Milkina was a source of inspiration. He won the first prize in the Ninth International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna in 1993, and second prize in the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. He has given solo performances with major orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Dafter was born in London to Margaret and Richard Fitton, a pianoforte maker. She was educated at Holy Trinity Church School in London and started work as a dress designer before her marriage to John Albert Dafter on 20 November 1898. The couple arrived in Australia in 1910 and settled in Northgate with their two foster sons who were merchant mariners. While she had an interest in stars from childhood and studied mathematics as a hobby, it was not until her arrival in Australia that Dafter sought advice and began teaching herself astronomy.
Although various composers in the 17th century had written keyboard pieces which they entitled "Sonata", it was only in the classical era, when the piano displaced the earlier harpsichord and sonata form rose to prominence as a principle of musical composition, that the term "piano sonata" acquired a definite meaning and a characteristic form. All the well-known Classical era composers, especially Joseph Haydn, Muzio Clementi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven, wrote many piano sonatas. Muzio Clementi wrote more than 110 piano sonatas. He is well known as "The Father of the Pianoforte".
Jaroslav Tůma (born 1956, in Prague, Czech republic) is a Czech organist. This organist, clavichord, harpsichordist and pianoforte player graduated from the Prague Conservatory and from the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Milan Šlechta organ, and Zuzana Růžičková harpsichord). He won first prizes in organ improvisation competitions in Nuremberg in 1980 and in the Dutch city of Haarlem in 1986. He is also the laureate of a number of organ interpretation competitions, 1978 Linz, 1979 the Prague Spring competition and 1980 the Leipzig Bach competition.
His American debut at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. was certainly auspicious: "Not for many years has so competent a master of the viola been heard in American concert halls", commented the Washington Post. From then on, he appeared widely as recitalist, soloist with orchestras and as a chamber musician. Paul Doktor was equally at home with the baroque, classical and modern repertoires. With Yaltah Menuhin, he introduced to American audiences a concerto by J.C.F. Bach for viola, pianoforte and orchestra, which he had discovered in Paris.
Carl Maria's musical education was extended by a mastering of lithography which he learned in the workshop of Alois Senefelder, the inventor of the process, and Franz Gleißner (autumn 1799). A set of his Variations for the Pianoforte was lithographed by Weber himself. In 1800, the family moved to Freiberg in Saxony, where Weber, then 14 years old, wrote an opera called Das stumme Waldmädchen (The Silent Forest Maiden). It was produced at the Freiberg and Chemnitz theatres and later in Saint Petersburg (1804), Vienna (1805/1805) and Prague (1806).
After his death, Bendel’s music lost much of their deserved recognition, coming as they did at a time when Wagner was revolutionizing. One of Bendel’s publishers, Augener & Co., based in London, and their journal, The Monthly Musical Record, continually reviewed his music after Bendel’s passing. In regard to his death, the journal stated, “much to be regretted, and will be regretted more and more, for the qualities of his compositions are becoming increasingly rare in pianoforte music.” Some of Bendel's notable students were Silas Pratt, Edward Morris Bowman, and Max Schwarz.
Prosseda is a host on the Italian National Radio (RAI), Radiotre, and a contributor to the "Lezioni di Musica" series on RAI. He is also the author of "Lezioni di Musica - il Pianoforte", a listening guide to piano repertoire, published in Italian by Edizioni Curci in 2013. He co-produced three documentaries: "Mendelssohn Unknown", "Fryderyk Chopin", and "Liszt: The Years of Pilgrimage". Prosseda is also a co-founder and artistic coordinator of "Donatori di Musica", a network of musicians and doctors who organise concert series in Italian hospitals.
Graveson also composes her own songs and often performs live at venues. She has attained all grades up to 8 with the Royal Schools of Music on pianoforte. Graveson started her professional stage career at the Live Theatre, Newcastle in 1983 alongside Robson Green. She also runs her own school for acting, singing and dance for adults (WOW Performing Arts) and has written thesis on for practical studies in musical theatre / theatre skills for actors wishing to sing and those wanting to pursue a life treading the boards in theatre.
Over five million copies had been sold by the 1920s and a few works remain in print today, though Simper's musical style has long since fallen from fashion. Amongst Simper's larger works are the cantatas, The Rolling Seasons and The Nativity of Christ. He also wrote somewhere in the region of 200 pieces of organ music and several miscellaneous works such as "The Silver Clarion", a march which exists in a version for organ and a version for pianoforte. His publisher was A. Weekes and Co. Ltd, whose catalogue was eventually acquired by Stainer & Bell.
He became Lieutenant du Roi (a vice regal appointment) at Saint Florent in Corsica from 1826. Possibly due to the decline in popularity of the guitar in salon music, replaced by the increasingly popular pianoforte, no more music of Lhoyer appears to have been published from this time (1826) onward. In 1830 he became "Commandant de la place" in Bonifacio, Corsica. His life took another change in fortune with the abdication of the French King in the July Revolution of 1830 and the subsequent reorganisation of civil and military administration, losing his position as commandant.
Robert Orlando Morgan (1865 – 16 May 1956) was an English music teacher, composer and musicologist. He is best remembered as an influential teacher at the Guildhall School of Music in London, where he taught for 64 years, from 1887 to 1951, as Professor of Pianoforte and Composition. His pupils included the composer Benjamin Frankel and the pianist Dame Myra Hess. Morgan composed many songs and classical pieces, as well as the music for the last Savoy opera, Two Merry Monarchs (1910), which had poor notices and a brief run.
Giacomo Benvenuti (16 March 1885, Toscolano — 20 January 1943, Barbarano-Salò) was an Italian composer and musicologist. He was the son of organist Cristoforo Benvenuti and studied at the Liceo Musicale (now the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini) in Bologna under Luigi Torchi (musicology) and Marco Enrico Bossi (organ). In 1919 his collection of songs for voice and piano accompaniment, Canti a una voce : con accompagnamento di pianoforte, was published in Bologna.Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale In 1922 he published a collection of 17th-century art songs entitled 35 Arie di vari autori del secolo XVII.
Sir Cyril Humphrey Cripps (2 October 1915England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 – 14 April 2000) was an English businessman and a philanthropist. Humphrey Cripps was educated at Northampton School For Boys and studied Natural Sciences at St John's College, Cambridge. He joined the family firm, Pianoforte Supplies Limited, started by his father in 1919 to make the metal components of pianos (the firm grew into a major supplier of metal fittings for other trades, especially the motor industry). Cripps became Managing Director in 1960 and Chairman in 1979.
Alfred James Hipkins FSA (17 June 1826, Westminster – 3 June 1903, Kensington) was an English musician, musicologist and musical antiquary. In 1840, at the age of 14, Hipkins became an apprentice piano tuner in the pianoforte factory of John Broadwood & Sons Ltd. In 1846, he was charged with training all of Broadwood's tuners in equal temperament, as many were still using the older meantone system. In 1849, he was named to the status of "senior workman," and he remained an employee of this company for the rest of his life.
Having also taught himself the organ, he became organist of St. Peter's Church, Brockley, holding this appointment till 1884. Gadsby succeeded John Hullah as professor of harmony at Queen's College, London, and Sir William Cusins as professor of pianoforte there. In 1880 he was appointed one of the original professors (for harmony) at the Guildhall School of Music, where he taught for the rest of his life. A member of the Philharmonic Society, and other musical societies, and fellow of the College of Organists, he was a well-known figure in the musical world.
The Leeds Asian Festival, formerly the Leeds Mela, is held in Roundhay Park. The Otley Folk Festival (patron: Nic Jones), Walking Festival, Carnival and Victorian Christmas Fayre are annual events. Light Night Leeds takes place each October, and many venues in the city are open to the public for Heritage Open Days in September. The Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, established in 1963 by Fanny Waterman and Marion Stein, has been held in the city every three years since 1963 and has launched the careers of many major concert pianists.
Narine Simonian (sometimes written only as Nariné, born 1965 in Gyumri, Armenia) is one of the most baroque French organists, as well as a pianist, musical director and producer of operas, born in Gyumri, Armenia. Nariné is also an organist, an harpsichord and pianoforte player as well as a pianist, mainly specializing in baroque genre, with a strong emphasis on Johann Sebastian Bach. President of the French nonprofit Association "Les Amis de Gumri.France" ("Friends of Gyumri"), Nariné dreams of raising enough money to set up an organ in her native city, Gyumri (Leninakan).
His son Nicolò (1596–1684) was himself an important master luthier who had several apprentices of note, including Antonio Stradivari (probably), Andrea Guarneri, Bartolomeo Pasta, Jacob Railich, Giovanni Battista Rogeri, Matthias Klotz, and possibly Jacob Stainer and Francesco Rugeri. It is even possible Bartolomeo Cristofori, later inventor of the piano, apprenticed under him (although census data does not support this, which paints this as a possible myth).Pollens, Stewart (1995) The Early Pianoforte. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Gasparo Duiffopruggar of Füssen, Germany, was once incorrectly credited as the inventor of the violin.
"Maestra e pianoforte" by Nino D'Angelo and "L'amica e mammà" by Luciano Caldore), class betrayal (eg. "Faje ammore cu Secondigliano" by Ida Rendano), celebrating love and the desire to marry (eg. "Per sempre" by Raffaello and "Un ragazzo da sposare" by Emiliana Cantone), and numerous other themes that however always stick to a perceived reality of one or more young persons living in Naples. It is to a great extent the absence of conceptualism that is the trademark of neomelodica, and this absence, in turn, becomes an ever- present presence.
During the second half of the 18th century, the harpsichord was gradually replaced by the earliest pianos. As the harpsichord went out of fashion, many were destroyed; indeed, the Paris Conservatory is notorious for having used harpsichords for firewood during the French Revolution and Napoleonic times.Alex Boekelheide, "Making Way for Beautiful Music", USC News (2 October 2005, accessed 20 January 2014). Although names were originally interchangeable, we now use 'fortepiano' to indicate the earlier, smaller style of piano, with the more familiar 'pianoforte' used to describe the larger instruments approaching modern designs from around 1830.
Cover of first edition of Busoni's edition of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, 1894 1894 saw the publication in Berlin of the first part of Busoni's edition of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach for the piano; the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier.Dent (1933), p. 348. This was equipped with substantial appendices, including one "On the Transcription of Bach's Organ Works for the Pianoforte". This was eventually to form a volume of the Bach-Busoni Edition, an undertaking which was to extend over thirty years.
Berthe Marx, born at Paris, July 28, 1859. Her father may have been Charles Lamoureux. She began to study the pianoforte at the age of four, receiving her first instruction from her father, who for 40 years was a violoncello-player in the Conservatoire de Paris and Grand Opera orchestras. In 1868, she was accepted by Auber as a student at the Conservatoire without any preliminary examination. At this institution, she gained the first prize for piano playing under Henri Herz’s guidance, and afterwards studied with Stephen Heller.
Upon his return from Europe, he was involved with the New England Conservatory of Music, as well as Symphony Hall, Boston. He was also a member of the Harvard Musical Association. Atherton composed several comic operas, including “The Heir Apparent” (1890) and “The Maharaja” (1900), an Oriental opera comique. In addition, he wrote dozens of songs and a number of pieces for violin and piano, romances, folk songs, waltzes and numerous works of chamber music, pianoforte pieces and many songs, and a number of violin and piano pieces; all which entered public domain in 2015.
The three Cristofori pianos that survive today date from the 1720s. Cristofori named the instrument un cimbalo di cipresso di piano e forte ("a keyboard of cypress with soft and loud"), abbreviated over time as pianoforte, fortepiano, and later, simply, piano.Isacoff (2012, 23) Cristofori's great success was designing a stringed keyboard instrument in which the notes are struck by a hammer. The hammer must strike the string, but not remain in contact with it, because this would damp the sound and stop the string from vibrating and making sound.
Józef Turczyński in 1936Jozéf Turczyński (18841953) was a Polish pianist, pedagogue and musicologist who exercised a powerful influence over the development of piano teaching and performance, especially in the works of Frédéric Chopin, during the first half of the 20th century. He was in a large part responsible for a performing edition of the Complete Pianoforte Works of Chopin which is still considered definitive. Turczyński was born in Żytomierz, in a part of Volhynia which is now in the Ukraine. He was first a pupil of his father.
The album has two discs, a disc of old recordings, and a second disc that consists of new recordings of "reimagined" old songs with new interpretation. It includes a stripped-back, slowed-down version of "Never Gonna Give You Up" accompanied by pianoforte. It also includes a new song, "Every One of Us". "Every One of Us" was released on 12 September 2019 as the first single from the album with a post on Twitter from Astley, who also confirmed the title of the album and its release date.
A similar claim was stated on the regulating instructions pasted to double actions in Wornum's piccolo, harmonic and cabinet pianos. This is not the only published account concerning the origin of this action, and in particular that of the flexible tie or bridle tape, as it is known today. Harding stated explicitly in The Pianoforte that Wornum "neither invented or patented" the tapeHarding, p. 245 and credited the invention to piano manufacturer Herman Lichtenthal of Brussels (and later Saint Petersburg), who received a patent for improvementAnalyses des inventions brevetées depuis nov. 1830 jusqu'à Oct.
She was a composer, teacher and concert singer. She was the director of Ada Jordan Pray Music School. She was writer of songs and pianoforte music, she composed: "Veit Knickerbocker," (operetta), Dancing with you, song, words by Maud Gilbert, Swiss Echo Song, words and music, Wishing on a Star in the Valley of the Moon, words by Nell Griffith Wilson, sang by Connie Von Loben Sels, and "Schubertiana" : symphony movement in rondo form : to be used with unison chorus if desired. She was a lecturer on Appreciation of Music.
The Piano Concerto No. 16 in D major, K. 451, is a concertante work for piano, or pianoforte, and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart composed the concerto for performance at a series of concerts at the Vienna venues of the Trattnerhof and the Burgtheater in the first quarter of 1784, where he was himself the soloist. Mozart noted this concerto as complete on 22 March 1784 in his catalog, and performed the work later that month. Cliff Eisen has postulated that this performance was on 31 March 1784.
In 1882 they delivered a rosewood concert grand to the White House for President Chester A. Arthur."A Knabe in the White House" New York Times December 16, 1882 p.5 Wm. Knabe & Co.'s Piano Factories, Corner Eutaw and West Streets, Baltimore. (1873) Shield emblem, used after 1904William Knabe, jr., died in 1889.Daniel Spillane History of the American Pianoforte D. Spillane, New York. 1891. p.132 The company was incorporated with a capital stock of $1,000,000 the same year, with Ernest J. Knabe as president. Ernest J. Knabe died in 1894Henry Hall, ed.
Haynes was born in Kempsey near Worcester, and received his earliest musical education from his uncle William Haynes, who was organist at Great Malvern Priory Church between 1850 and 1893. Battison Haynes was a chorister at the church and deputized for his uncle on the organ. He went on to study with Franklin Taylor (piano) and Ebenezer Prout (harmony) at Oscar Beringer's Academy for the Higher Development of Pianoforte Playing, which had been founded in 1873. But in May 1878 Haynes enrolled at the Conservatory of Leipzig to study with Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn.
Bartolomeo Cristofori and the Invention of the Piano was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. It is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Bartolomeo Cristofori, the Paduan-born harpsichord maker who is credited with having invented the pianoforte around the year 1700 while working in the Medici court in Florence. Through thorough analysis of documents preserved in the state archive of Florence, Pollens has reconstructed Cristofori's working life between his arrival in Florence in 1688 and his death in 1732. All of his extant instruments are described in technical detail.
The secondary school 'Liceo Maffei' in Verona is named in his honour. He is also known for having written a description of Bartolomeo Cristofori's invention of a hammer mechanism for the harpsichord, work widely considered to comprise the invention of the piano.Stewart Pollens, The Early Pianoforte, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995:43–95. Maffei published the article in the Giornale de’ Letterati d’Italia in 1711.Scipione Maffei, "Nuova invenzione d’un Gravecembalo col Piano e Forte aggiunte alcune considerazione sopra gli strumenti musicali", in: Giornale de’ Letterati d’Italia V, 1711, 144–59.
Walter Francis Frederick Wesché (1857 – 26 September 1910) was a British composer, pianist, and entomologist. Born in Colombo, Ceylon, Wesché came to England at a young age and studied the piano under Mr. Oscar Beringer, as well as composition under Berthold Tours and F. H. Cowen. He later taught harmony at the Oscar Beringer School for the Higher Development of Pianoforte-playing, and the piano at the Royal Normal College for the Blind. His compositions won recognition in the form of prizes from the Westminster Orchestral Society and the Musicians' Company.
Essex was born in or about 1765 at Coventry, Warwickshire, the son of Timothy Essex there; Margaret Essex was his sister. He began playing on the flute and violin at age 13, for his own amusement, and his father let him study music as a profession. In 1786 he established himself as a teacher of the pianoforte, organ, and flute. In order to better his position he matriculated at Oxford as a member of Magdalen Hall 10 December 1806, and took the degree of bachelor of music on the following 17 December.
The first volume was published by Novello in London (1832) as Original Melodies for the Pianoforte, but the later volumes used the title Songs Without Words. The works were part of the Romantic tradition of writing short lyrical pieces for the piano, although the specific concept of "Songs Without Words" was new. Mendelssohn's sister Fanny wrote a number of similar pieces (though not so entitled) and, according to some music historians, she may have helped inspire the concept. The title Song Without Words seems to have been Felix Mendelssohn's own invention.
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Seventh Edition, Revised by Nicolas Slonimsky, Schirmer Books, New York, 1984 He made his Paris debut in 1897, his Boston debut in 1898, and his London debut in 1907. Fox performed concerts with the New York Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Dannreuther String Quartet, as soloist with the Griller Quartet,Boston Globe article, "Felix Fox Will Play With Griller Quartet," December 27, 1939, page 18 violinist Albert Spalding,Boston Globe advertisement, "Concert in Aid for the Widows of Italian Reservists," March 26, 1916, page 59 the Boston Festival Orchestra, the Boston Pops Orchestra,Boston Globe, "Tonight's Pops Program," May 24, 1941, page 11 and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.International Who's Who in Music and Musical Gazetteer: "A contemporary biographical dictionary and a record of the world's musical activity," by César Saerchinger, page 200, Current Literature Publishing Company, 1918New York Times obituary, "Felix Fox, Concert pianist had been soloist with Symphony orchestras," March 26, 1947, page 25 Mr. Fox moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1897, and in 1898 co-founded the Fox- Buonamici School of Pianoforte Playing with pianist Carlo Buonamici at 403 Marlborough Street in Boston's Back Bay. After Buonamici's death, in 1920, the school became the Felix Fox School of Pianoforte Playing.
Camille Saint-Saëns dedicated a piano piece to Roger-Miclos, which she premiered in 1891.Sabina Teller Ratner, Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835-1921: A Thematic Catalogue of His Complete Works (Oxford University Press 2002): 393-394. Roger-Miclos played in London in 1890"Recent Concerts" The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art (June 14, 1890): 738. and 1894."Pianoforte Recitals" The Musical Times (June 1, 1894): 391-392. She toured German- speaking cities in 1893, 1894, and 1897. She toured in the United States and Canada in the 1902–1903 season."Music and Musicians" The Theatre (March 1903): 77-78.
848-849 At nineteen, he found himself in possession of a robust tenor voice. He studied voice with Gustave-Hippolyte Roger, and in 1868 he made his operatic debut at the National Theatre of Budapest. But the strain was too great, and eventually he abandoned this career and applied himself to pianoforte study under his godfather Franz Liszt, of whose music he became a well-known interpreter. He went to England in 1871, but finding insufficient support, he went to New York and toured in the United States with the German tenor, Theodor Wachtel (1823 - 1893).
The first Maček chamber composition, Trio for Violin, Violoncello and Pianoforte, is an example of his re-interpretation of the Romantic heritage, while the last five compositions are marked by the style of neo-Classicism. Sonata for Cello and Piano is alone between these two periods of his work (the first from 1935 to 1940 and the second from 1977 to 1997). In it one can feel on the one hand a connection with the Romantic orientation of the earlier compositions and on the other an inkling of the neo-Classicist features of his later compositions.
While organist and composer to the New Jerusalem Church in Friars Street, Keith published A Selection of Sacred Melodies … to which is prefixed Instructions for the use of Young Organists …, London, 1816. There followed A Musical Vade Mecum, being a compendious Introduction to the whole art of Music; Part I, containing the Principles of Notation, etc., in an easy categorical form, apprehensible to the meanest capacity, London, 1820 (?); Part II, Elements of Musical Composition. Keith compiled instruction-books for pianoforte, flute, and Spanish guitar (by "Paulus Prucilli"), and a violin preceptor, which went through many editions.
During the Carnival of 1848 he conducted Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 at a concert at the Ruspoli Palace, this being the first time that an orchestra had played a Beethoven symphony in Rome. While in Italy, he composed several songs in Italian, and was present at the removal of the gates of the Roman Ghetto on Passover eve, 7 April 1847. He received the rare distinction of honorary membership in the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Roman Philharmonic Society. On his return to England he played Beethoven's Pianoforte Concerto in C minor at the Philharmonic Society's concert of 18 March 1850.
This, however, left his intellect unimpaired and still gave him the use of his right hand, and in 1894 he became a teacher in the Conservatory at Palermo, and after a few years there he was able to return to Naples Conservatory, where he remained in charge of a chamber-music class until his death in 1907. His educational writings (Method for Pianoforte) had considerable importance, and he wrote many volumes of revision of piano music. Among his notable pupils were Giuseppe Martucci, Alessandro Longo,Alessandro Longo, Beniamino Cesi, in L'Arte pianistica I, 1, Naples, 1 January 1914, p.
That year he also published the song "Trip It Gentle Mary" and an Original Theme with Variations for the Pianoforte, Op. 1. In 1830 he was commissioned to set to music, in cantata form, an ode written by his uncle Isaac Cowen for the third Shakespeare Jubilee Celebration at Stratford-on-Avon. The work was performed at Stratford on 23 April 1830 with marked success, and it was subsequently given the same year at the King's Theatre under Salaman's own direction. Three years later, he gave his first annual orchestral concert at the Hanover Square Rooms.
Guido Gatti's founding of the periodical Il Pianoforte and then La rassegna musicale also helped to promote a broader view of music than the political and social climate allowed. Most Italians, however, preferred more traditional pieces and established standards, and only a small audience sought new styles of experimental classical music. Niccolò Paganini Italy is also the homeland of important interpreters, such as Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Quartetto Italiano, I Musici, Salvatore Accardo, Maurizio Pollini, Uto Ughi, Aldo Ciccolini, Severino Gazzelloni, Arturo Toscanini, Mario Brunello, Ferruccio Busoni, Claudio Abbado, Ruggero Chiesa, Bruno Canino, Carlo Maria Giulini, Oscar Ghiglia and Riccardo Muti.
Born into a family of musicians, Fait began playing saxophone in his teenage years, gaining notoriety in 2002 when he accompanied Cuban musician Gendrickson Mena Diaz on a four-day fashion event hosted by Pitti Uomo. He has collaborated with Flavio Boltro, Elisabetta Guido, Marco Panascia, Joel Holmes, Phil Maturano, Antonio Zambrini, Attilio Zanchi, Tony Arco, Roberto Piermartire, Luigi Tognoli, and performed with others in clubs throughout Lombardy and Italy. In 2007, he founded the Fait Club Quintet. He also contributed to Mantic Ensemble, an album with Danilo Manto on pianoforte, Max Patrick on percussion, and Fait on soprano saxophone.
Emánuel Moór. Emánuel Moór Pianoforte from around 1927 by Pleyel et Cie Emánuel Moór (; 19 February 1863 – 20 October 1931) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and inventor of musical instruments. Moór was born in Kecskemét, Hungary, and studied in Prague, Vienna and Budapest. Between 1885 and 1897 he toured Europe as a soloist and ventured as far afield as the United States. Besides five operas and eight symphonies his output also included: concertos for piano (4), violin (4), cello (2), viola, and harp; a triple concerto for violin, cello, and piano; chamber music; a requiem; and numerous lieder.
Other notable performances include concerts at the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Museum, New York City Town Hall, and the National Gallery of Art, as well as two European tours to major halls in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, and the Amerika Hauser in Germany. In 1976, Walker-Slocum was invited to return to Oberlin to perform. Shortly after, she was appointed as a Visiting Associate Professor of Pianoforte from 1976-77. In 1979, she received tenure as an Associate Professor, followed by promotion to a full professor in November 1981, and from 1985 to 1986, she served as the Piano Departmental Chairman.
" "Addresses on various aspects of Scriabin's art have been given by MM. Braudo, Makovsky, and Bryanchanimov, and the performance of the later works and also of some posthumous pieces has been in the hands of Borovsky's pianoforte music. Borovsky's position is the more honourable since no Russian recital programme is complete without Scriabin's name, and this artist has therefore no rivals." In 1923 Borowski writes in "Modern Masters of the Keyboard," by Harriette Brower, "Yes I have a very large repertoire and am constantly adding to it. While I was in South America I gave many concerts in various cities.
The British music scholar Donald Francis Tovey says in A Companion to Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas: > With all the tragic power of its first movement the D minor Sonata is, like > Prospero, almost as far beyond tragedy as it is beyond mere foul weather. It > will do you no harm to think of Miranda at bars 31–38 of the slow > movement... but people who want to identify Ariel and Caliban and the > castaways, good and villainous, may as well confine their attention to the > exploits of Scarlet Pimpernel when the Eroica or the C minor Symphony is > being played (pg. 121).
In 1768, he published 'Six Sonatas for the Harpsichord' (London), and in 1771 the work by which he is best known, The Institutes of Music,; this work ran into sixteen editions. In 1773, he published Twelve Songs (London), Elegies for Voice and Pianoforte (London), and in 1774, he issued by subscription, under the patronage of the king, The Psalms of David set to Music and arranged for every Sunday in the year. For this work he had over five thousand subscribers. In 1774, Francis Linley was born (blind) at Doncaster, and from an early age studied under Miller.
Taylor began his music career studying pianoforte at Ardwicke Central High School in Manchester. Inspired and entranced by the virtuosity of alto saxophonist Freddie Gardener, Peter went on to study at the Regional School of Music in Manchester as a saxophone and clarinet student under John Roadhouse, lead saxophonist with the Northern Variety Orchestra of the BBC. Soon, Peter became involved with the Northern Dance Orchestra of the BBC, where all the Regional School of Music's tutors were members in various disciplines. In 1956 Peter became a pupil of Professor Fred Dickinson of the Royal Northern College of Music, studying clarinet.
Filippo Dr. Filippi. ::Date: Gmunden, (Austr. Sup.) Luglio 1877 :Pub: F. Lucca, Milan, 1882, plate. no. Z 35468 Z, (5 pages) ::Title: Scherzo per pianoforte tratto dalla Sonata Op. 8 in Mi Maggiore ::Ded: All'Illustre Critico Cavaliere Filippo Dottr. Filippi. :Notes: ::1) Scherzo movement probably originally intended for the Sonata No. 3 in E major Op. 9, BV 65 (Sitsky); or the Sonata No. 2 in D major Op. 8, BV 61 (Beaumont). ::2) According to Busoni's handwritten catalog of works (ca. 1881) the piece was composed on 5 July 1877. ::3) Publication was announced on 16 September 1882 in L'Arte, Trieste.
He looks up to her gratefully for all that she did to him. He also holds diplomas in Pianoforte, Guitar and Theory of Music in Western music from Trinity College, London. After his studies he went to Kodaikanal and was working as the restaurant musician in Carlton Hotel, until he moved on to teach music in the residential school, St. Peter's School, Kodaikanal, formerly known as St. Peter's Public School. After a six-year stint as music teacher, he migrated to Madras to fulfill his long-term desire and dream of making as a film composer.
An advertisement in the Nelson Streets Directory indicates that Miss Jannetta M Hornsby B.A., N.Z.U., A.R.C.M. (London) also had rooms at 50 Trafalgar Street as a teacher of pianoforte, theory, singing, elocution and languages as well as being Principal of Cabragh House School. However, a search of the deeds reveals that none of the sisters Hornsby ever owned legal title to either the School or Dwelling House located at either 36 or 38 Weka Street. In February 1908, John Hornsby mortgaged 38 Weka Street for government advances for unknown purposes. The money could have been put towards improvements for both structures.
632, Macmillan, London He studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music under Sir William Sterndale Bennett and Arthur Sullivan, and piano with William Dorrell and Walter Macfarren. He served as a sub-professor there from 1876–1880, and became an assistant professor of pianoforte in 1880, before being promoted to professor in 1884. With Frederick Corder and John Blackwood McEwen, he co-founded the Society of British Composers in 1905. Matthay remained at the RAM until 1925, when he was forced to resign because McEwen—his former student who was then the Academy's Principal—publicly attacked his teaching.
Hannaneh also composed soundtracks for Persian films and he was the first composer who composed music for films in Iran. Hannaneh's most important works include "The Execrable Capriccio per pianoforte e Orchestra"; "Hezar-Dastan Overture" (on a melody by Morteza Neydavoud; for symphonic orchestra); "In Memory of Ferdowsi" (for soprano and piano), the books "Lost Scales"; "The Even Harmony"; (in Persian), etc. In addition to being an outstanding composer Morteza Hannaneh was a great teacher and mentor to many. One of his notable students is Canadian composer, conductor and strategist Joseph Lerner and Iranian musician Amir Ali Hannaneh.
He was also the leading viola of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, of the Goossens Orchestra, of the London Symphony Orchestra from its inception in 1904 until 1930, and of the orchestras of the chief festivals. He soloed with orchestras on a few occasions, most notably in several performances of Hector Berlioz's Harold in Italy. Hobday premiered several works including Frank Bridge's Phantasy for Piano Quartet, Vaughan Williams' Four Hymns for Tenor, and String Orchestra and Vaughan Williams's Quintet in C Minor for Pianoforte, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Double Bass. The English composer Ernest Walker also composed works specifically for Hobday.
Hale served as the Dean of the School of Music at Colorado College in Colorado Springs from 1905 to 1906.Prominent New England Man Will Take Charge Of College Music Department, _Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph_ , Aug. 21, 1905Waldo Selden Pratt (1857–1939) (editor), Charles Nelson Boyd (1875–1937) (associate editor), Groves's Dictionary of Music, Vol. 6, The MacMillan Company, New York (1920) In 1906, his title changed to Dean of the Department of Music, Professor of the Theory and Literature of Music and Pianoforte, in which he was chair until 1936 when he was made Dean Emeritus.
In 2007, Fuller was awarded 'Le Prix du Merite Artistique' at the LDF awards ceremony in Lausanne and the 'Besso Memorial Prize for Pianoforte' by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. She performed at the Olympic Stadium in Lausanne during Athletissima 2007. She also performed at the World Conference on Giftedness. In 2008, Fuller concentrated on live performances in the UK. She received a standing ovation at the Montrose Music Festival and in August, was chosen by the Performing Rights Society to front a media campaign to highlight the importance of performance royalties in supporting young songwriters.
The complete cycle was published in 1803 in Vienna under the French title Trente six fugues pour le pianoforte, composées d'après un nouveau système ("Thirty-six fugues for the piano, composed using a new system"). The collection was dedicated to Haydn, whom Reicha knew since the early 1790s, and included a dedicatory poem by Reicha, in French and German. The fugues were preceded by extensive textual notes, in which Reicha defended his methods, particularly polyrhythm, for which he cites numerous examples from traditional music of Switzerland, Alsace, Greece and western France around the Bay of Biscay.Reicha's text cited in: Vit Roubicek.
Due to its double keyboard musical work that were originally created for double-manual harpsichord such as Goldberg Variations by Bach become much easier to play, since playing on a conventional single keyboard piano involve complex and hand-tangling cross-hand movements. The design also featured a special fourth pedal that coupled the lower and upper keyboard, so when playing on the lower keyboard the note one octave higher also played. Only about 60 Emánuel Moór Pianoforte were made, mostly manufactured by Bösendorfer. Other piano manufactures such as Bechstein, Chickering, and Steinway & Sons had also manufactured a few.
He served as president of the Gas Company and managing director of the Portland Company, of which concerns he was also the practical founder and organizer. He died when his daughter was very young. Accustomed from childhood to speak both the English and Italian languages, enacting dramas with her dolls, intensely interested in Shakespeare's fairies, the demons of "Dante's Inferno" and stories of the Greek gods and heroes—her early years were not like those of a typical child of New England. She received a thorough musical education, which included singing, the pianoforte, harmony and counterpoint.
Maurice Cole (1902 - 1990), was an English pianist, teacher and adjudicator who studied privately and at the Guildhall School of Music with Arthur De Greef. Maurice Cole was born in London, England. He was the first pianist to broadcast a recital on the BBC and went on to perform, amongst many other compositions, both books of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier on the BBC Third Programme. He was professor at the Guildhall School of Music from 1953, was appointed Professor of Pianoforte at the School on two occasions and was a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians.
He gained a passion for music and joined the choir of Christ Church, where he learnt more under the old-fashioned choirmaster, Thomas Oxley. Haswell made such rapid progress that after only one year he joined a South Shields military band, of which shortly afterwards he was made the leader. He was soon scoring classical pieces for the band to perform and in no time he had learnt the pianoforte and organ. Despite having his full-time job as a painter’s apprentice and his part-time work with the band and general interest in music, he did not neglect his general studies.
Wylde was born in South Australia, a son of Charles Wylde, and grew up in the suburb of Glenelg. He studied organ under Walter B. Hills, organist of St. Peter's Church, Glenelg, then in England under D. J. Bennett, organist of Lincoln Cathedral. He was admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in 1908. He also studied pianoforte under Gertrude Foster and in 1909 he was elected an Associate of the Royal College of Music. In 1910 he was appointed organist and choirmaster at St. Luke's Church, Bromley, then in 1914 transferred to the Church of St. Nicholas, Guildford.
The Players Eight arrangements of Hans Andersen stories for Voice, Piano and Narrator between 1955-1960 Five out of One Pod, It’s Quite True!, Old Luk Oje, Punchinello, The Nightingale, The Princess of the Pea, The Snow Queen, The Swineherd Pianoforte Solo Nine works composed between 1918 and 1927 Berceuse, By Moonlight, Four Myths, Four Poems, Harlequin and Columbine (published), Heather, Nocturne (published), Piano Piece No 1, Sunrise. Chamber Music Piano Quartet - Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello - 1932 Piano Trio - Piano, Violin, Cello - 1936 All of Margaret Mores music currently resides in the archive of the Library of Birmingham.
In 1814 Johann Bernhard Logier patented his ‘chiroplast,’ an invention for holding the hands in a proper position while playing the pianoforte. This system of teaching was ardently taken up by Eager. The adherents of the new method were vehemently attacked by conservative musicians, and Eager came in for a full share of abuse in the Norfolk papers. He gradually convinced a considerable number of persons of the excellence of the system, which, in addition to the use of the chiroplast, professed to teach the ground work of harmony much more rapidly and thoroughly than any other method.
Keyboard instruments can be found as far back as the hydraulis (a water organ) in the 3rd century BCE, which developed into the pipe organ, and small portable instruments such as the portative and positive organ. Additional keyboard instruments, the clavichord (tangent- struck strings) and harpsichord (quill-plucked strings), were developed in the 14th century CE. As technology improved, more sophisticated keyboards were developed, including the 12-tone keyboard still in use today. Initially, the keyboard of an instrument such as a pipe organ or harpsichord could only produce sounds of one particular volume. In the 18th century, the pianoforte was invented.
The Spokesman-Review, 18 March 1961 He won the Hopkinson Gold Medal for piano performance and the Dannreuther Prize for the best piano concerto performance. Further studies were undertaken with Ferruccio Busoni in Basel, and in Berlin. Powell toured in Paris, Berlin, England and Scotland, and spent many years as an Examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, visiting places such as Australia,The West Australian, 10 September 1929The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 September 1933The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 September 1933The Argus, 28 November 1933 South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, Ceylon, the West Indies and Java. He became a Professor of Pianoforte at the RCM in 1919.
Packer was born in Tasmania, the son of a senior customs official, Arthur Howard Packer (died 20 August 1912) and Margaret Fitzmaurice Packer (née Clyde; 1855–1915). Arthur Packer was a son of Frederick Alexander Packer and his wife Augusta (née Gow). Both were members of the Royal Academy of Music in London and had arrived in Hobart in 1852 so that Frederick could take up the position of organist at St. David's Cathedral in Davey Street. The Packers were originally from the Reading area in the Thames Valley and Frederick's father was a master pianoforte manufacturer who plied his trade for many years on London's Oxford Street.
He also composed the piano piece Happy Birthday Dear Ludwig, a set of five variations on "Happy Birthday to You" in the style of many famous Beethoven pieces such as Minuet in G, Sonata Pathétique, Moonlight Sonata, Für Elise, and the Fifth Symphony. Hambro released two albums on Cook Records, currently operated by Smithsonian Folkways. They were entitled A Perspective of Beethoven-Pianoforte and Cook's Tour of High Fidelity, and released in 1953 and 1965, respectively.Hambro Discography on Folkways He also recorded "Switched-On Gershwin", a duo album of Hambro's classical piano, blended with the Moog syntheszier of Gershon Kingsley, for AVCO Records in 1970.
The Leeds International Piano Competition, informally known as The Leeds and formerly the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, takes place every three years in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1961 by Marion, Countess of Harewood, Dame Fanny Waterman, and Roslyn Lyons, with the first competition being held in 1963. Waterman was the chair and artistic director up to the 2015 competition when Paul Lewis and Adam Gatehouse became Co-Artistic Directors. The first round of the competition takes place in Berlin, Singapore and New York and the 2nd round, semi-final and finals take place in the Great Hall of the University of Leeds and in Leeds Town Hall.
The film's Anne also engages in actions not visible in the novel, such as her haste to stop Wentworth from leaving a musical concert when he feels demeaned by disparaging comments about his profession. Morrison attributes these differences to the difficulty in adapting novel to film, particularly as the latter form lacks a narrator to convey Anne's inner thoughts. The film also expands upon Austen's subtle characterisation by exaggerating the emotions of characters and certain scenes. For example, in the novel during an early party Anne offers to play the pianoforte like usual; while doing so, she is slightly tearful but also "extremely glad to be employed" and "unobserved".
34 Henry & S. G. Lindeman obtained an interest in the soundboard calibration device patented in 1909 by piano dealer and inventor Frank B. Long, of Los Angeles. Marketed as the "Melodigrand", this was a method for maintaining or restoring the slight crowning of a soundboard through a series of screws pressed against blocks applied directly to the panel, like Steinway & Sons' lapsed and disused systemGeorge H. Benjamin, "Pianoforte" Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics vol.II, D. Appleton and Company, New York 1884 p.537 and similar to the Mason & Hamlin "tension resonator", then in force and which is still manufactured and promoted by that firm.
In 2007, he sang the title role of this opera in concert performances with Les Talens Lyriques, directed by Christophe Rousset. He has performed and recorded Lieder of the period of Romanticism accompanied on period instruments. He sang Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin and Schwanengesang with Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano), Lieder of Siegmund von Seckendorff on words of Goethe with Ludger Rémy (pianoforte), and Lieder and Ballads of Carl Loewe with Cord Garben. In 2010 Kobow took part in the project Robert Schumann: Sammlung von Musik-Stücken alter und neuer Zeit, which was initiated by Radio Bremen and resulted in a series of broadcasts and CDs.
Although it is not known how Haydn and Marianne met, their friendship originated in correspondence: having arranged the Andante movement of one of Haydn's symphonies for piano, she sent a copy of her work to the composer, asking him to critique it. Here is the text of her letter, dated 10 June 1789:Translation from Robbins Landon (1959, 85). According to Robbins Landon (1959, xxi), Marianne had trouble with German spelling; her orthography was "several grades more appalling than Haydn's". : [three crosses] : Most respected Herr v[on] Hayden, : With your kind permission, I take the liberty of sending you a pianoforte arrangement of the beautiful Andante from your so admirable composition.
Obed M. Coleman "Pianoforte" United States Patent no. 3,548 April 17, 1844; ; mechanic and inventor J. A. Bazin claimed the first batch of reeds he delivered Gilbert were tuned in equal temperament - Robert F. Gellerman The American Reed Organ and the Harmonium p.15 Spillane described that Gilbert & Co. licensed the invention in 1846 "for a small figure"—an article about the inventor from January 1845 reported that the firm paid $25,000 for the exclusive rights to manufacture and sell pianos with it in Massachusetts, while New York manufacturers Nunns & Clark paid $25,000 in cash and offered $50,000 royalties for its use in the rest of the country.
Waghalter's early chamber music revealed an intense melodic imagination that was to remain a distinctive characteristic of his compositional work. An early String Quartet in D Major, Opus 3, was highly praised by Joachim. Waghalter's Sonata for Violin and Pianoforte in F Minor, Opus 5, received the prestigious Mendelssohn-Preis in 1902, when the composer was only 21.Waghalter Aus dem Ghetto in die Freiheit (Marienbad, 1936) In 1907, Waghalter secured a post as conductor at the Komische Oper in Berlin, assisting Arthur Nikisch, where his reputation grew rapidly. That was followed by a brief tenure at the Grillo- Theater, the Stadttheater in Essen (1911–12).
Jan Schultsz ended his studies of the pianoforte at the City of Basel Music Academy under László Gyimesi and Peter Efler. As a concert pianist, he gave concerts together with singers and instrumentalists in many countries of Europe; he was a co-founder of the Kammerorchester Basel and appeared as a soloist with the Sinfonieorchester Basel and with various chamber orchestras. He accompanied the master courses of Hermann Baumann and Paul Tortelier and lead the Lieder and oratorio class at the Bruckner Conservatory Linz. In 1996, the young artist gave his debut at the Carnegie Hall, New York City with the Finnish Cellist, Marko Ylönen.
In 1802 and 1803, Tieck worked on a drama based on the tale but completed only a short prologue in verse. Later, in 1811, Die schöne Magelone also appeared as a tale in his Phantasus. Furthermore sixteen of the eighteen poems were published separately as a lyric cycle, Des Jünglings Liebe (Of the Young Man’s Love). Between 1861 and 1869 Johannes Brahms set to music fifteen of Tieck’s eighteen poems, scoring them for voice with piano accompaniment. These were published as the composer’s Opus 33 in five volumes of three songs each in 1865 and 1869: Romanzen aus L. Tieck’s Magelone für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte [sic].
61-63; Roberge, p. 13; Beaumont, p. 358; Sitsky, pp. 40-41. ^ BV 72: Andante con moto (in E minor) Op. 10, for clarinet and piano :Alternative titles: ::1) Komposition in e-Moll für Klarinette und Pianoforte (Kindermann) ::2) Suite in E minor for Clarinet and Piano (Roberge) ::3) Suite Op. 10, for clarinet and piano (Beaumont) :Comprises: Andante con moto (in E minor) (4/4, 80 bars) (one movement only) :MS: SB79 ::Page inventory: :::Full score: Title page; 3 pages score (clarinet in C; piano); 1 blank page; 2 pages score :::Clarinet part in C: both sides of a single sheet ::Title: Klarinetten-Suite, Op. 10 ::Date: 1877.
History of John Broadwood & Sons Ltd Piano Manufacturer Despite having very limited musical training on the pianoforte and the organ, he gained a reputation for his performances of Chopin's music. He wrote many reviews of books on musical ethnology or musical antiquity for The Athenæum and The Musical Times. In 1891 he gave the Cantor lectures on Musical instruments, their construction and capabilities to the Royal Society of Arts. Painting of A.J. Hipkins by his daughter Edith Hipkins married in October 1850 and the marriage produced a son John, who became a noted wood-engraver, and a daughter Edith, who became a highly successful portrait painter.
In 1897, Wilhelm Schimmel built his own state- of-the-art factory in Leipzig-Stötteritz on 4000 m2 large grounds. Due to the outstanding playability, the highly developed mechanics and the tonal quality the brand Schimmel soon belonged to the circle of renown pianoforte factories in Leipzig, which used to be, besides Berlin the centre of piano manufacturers in Germany. Schimmel Pianos soon developed an international reputation as their instruments were exported to Russia, Italy, France, the U.S., Switzerland, and many other countries. Schimmel received the title of purveyor of the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and the purveyor of the King of Romania.
In 1879 Frederick and Hugo Mathushek, jr. patented a new arrangement of bridge agraffes combined with a development of the front terminations introduced in the 1860 patent. The bridge arrangement, styled the equilibre system, involved deflecting the strings alternately toward and away from the soundboard to two different levels of hitchpins - a difference claimed to be as much as 15 degrees in one advertisement - in order to minimize the downward strain applied to the sounding board (which is usually less than 2 degrees with conventional pinned bridges).F. Mathushek and H. Mathushek, Jr. Pianoforte. United States Patent 212,029, February 4, 1879 The following year, the Mathushek Piano Mfg.
The second son of George Danneley, a lay clerk of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and his wife Elizabeth, he was born at Wokingham, Berkshire, into a family who had come down in the world. His first musical instruction was from his father, and at the age of 15 he studied thorough bass with Samuel Webbe and the pianoforte under Charles Knyvett, and then Charles Neate. He is also said to have had some lessons from Joseph Woelfl, presumably later, as Woelfl only settled in England in 1805. About 1803 Danneley abandoned music to live with a rich uncle, from whom he had expectations; but later resumed his musical studies.
After coming in second in a Japanese music competition in 1984, Ogawa attained third prize in the 1987 Leeds International Piano Competition, which launched her international performing career.Leeds International Pianoforte Competition: Previous Finalists (accessed 9 December 2008) Her New York début came in 1982, and her London début in 1988. Since 1997 Ogawa has been an exclusive recording artist for BIS Records.Guildhall School of Music & Drama: Department of Keyboard Studies (accessed 20 January 2014) She has collaborated in a piano duo with British pianist Kathryn Stott since 2001,Noriko Ogawa: Pianist: Biography (accessed 9 December 2008) and the two women have recorded works by Delius for BIS Records.
Venessa Redgrave, Julia Ormond, Marthe Keller, Maximilian Schell; director: Michael Anderson), Rusty in the Italian TV-film Requiem per Voce e Pianoforte (RAI DUE), and last not least Dieter Krause in the English TV-thriller The Waiting Time (ITV 1999; director: Stuart Orme). His last leading in a German feature films of the last years were The Unforgotten, Montag kommen die Fenster/Windows will drive on Monday (International Filmfestival Berlin), The Gift and Amatores Meae Matris. Between 2007 and 2012 Becker was a member in the committee of the German Academy of Film (Deutsche Filmakademie). As a songwriter and singer his first single was produced in 2013.
Doris Brabham Hatt was born in 1890 into a well known and affluent Bath family that ran a successful wig-making, hairdressing and perfumery business.. She was the daughter of William Edward Hatt (1861-1916) and Mary Emily Hatt (née Brabham) (1862-1929), who was a music teacher and Professor of Pianoforte. Her older sister, Rayonette Dagmar Hatt (1889-1911) died young, and she also had a younger brother, Richard William Hatt (1893-1933), who became a journalist. Doris's parents and sister are buried at St Mary the Virgin, Bathwick, Smallcombe Cemetery. After attending Bath High School Hatt went to a finishing school at Kassel in Germany, during 1906 and 1907.
Alongside his performing work, Ferber had an active teaching career, gaining early experience in Italy where he deputised for his former teacher Karl Leimer. After settling in England, he was employed as piano teacher (and concert manager) at the James Ching Pianoforte School. Later in life he gave many masterclasses in both the UK and Europe for organisations such as the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA), but it is as a private teacher that he is probably best remembered. Robert Finley recalls that his teacher was an advocate of the Alexander Technique and that "he emphasised relaxation … and avoiding the build up of muscular tension and stress".
Pollens contributed the chapter on dendrochronology, a scientific procedure used to determine the age of the wood used in making violins. The Early Pianoforte (1995) traces the history of the piano from its invention up to the mid 18th century. It offers thorough coverage of the career of Bartolomeo Cristofori, widely acknowledged as having invented the piano in Florence around 1700, but rather contentiously suggests that Cristofori should not be called the instrument's inventor. In support of this claim it carefully goes through the threads of evidence that can be found for the existence of piano- like instruments dating as far back as 1440.
Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor (WoO59, Bia515) for solo piano, commonly known as "Für Elise" (, English: "For Elise"), is one of Ludwig van Beethoven's most popular compositions.William Kinderman, The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, , Dorothy de Val, The Cambridge Companion to the piano, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, p. 131, , "Beethoven is here [in the 1892 Repertory of select pianoforte works] only by virtue of 'Für Elise', but there is a better representation of later composers such as Schubert ... , Chopin ... , Schumann ... and some Liszt."Morton Manus, Alfred's Basic Adult All-In-One Piano Course, Book 3, New York: Alfred Publishing, p.
Syafinaz graduated from the Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) with a Bachelor's degree in Music. She is also a classically trained singer under the tutelage of Siti Chairani Proehoeman (voice), Muzaffar Abdullah (pianoforte), as well as veterans in the Malaysian music education and classical performance scene. Syafinaz also took initiative by completing a short course in Germany with Heidrun Maria Hahn, a German opera singer, before taking on a commitment as a soprano singer. Syafinaz is a lyric coloratura soprano, which makes her suits for opera shows with exquisite music of lyrical coloratura repertoire and arias from composers such as Mozart, Puccini, Bellini, Delibes and Verdi.
Peel wrote more than 100 songs, many of them settings of A. E. Housman.Charles Osborne - The Concert Song Companion: A Guide to the Classical ...2012 - - Page 231 1475700490 "Graham Peel (1877—1937), composer of more than 100 songs, the best of them pleasantly tuneful, was especially drawn to A. E. Housman, as, understandably, were most composers of his generation. Peel's setting of “In summertime on ..." Many settings were for folk songs and pianoforte solos, and performed afar as Australia. His tunes included: ::Almond, wild almond ::Go down to Kew in lilac time ::Her loveliness ::In summer time on Bredon (well regarded, and written c.
Born in Northampton, England to an Australian-born father, the late Ronald Goodchild, (formerly Suffragan Bishop of Kensington), and an English mother Jean Ross, William Goodchild was educated at the Royal College of Music (1970–1974) where he was a Junior Exhibitioner, studying violin and piano. After gaining a music scholarship at St Paul's School (1974–1981), William Goodchild obtained a Bachelor's degree with Honors in music at the University of East Anglia (1982–1985). He also holds a Diploma of Licentiate in Pianoforte from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (1989). He is a member of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and the MCPS-PRS Alliance.
Carlo Evasio Soliva (27 November 1791 – 20 December 1853) was a Swiss-Italian composer of opera, chamber music, and sacred choral works. Soliva was born in Casale Monferrato, Piedmont to a family of Swiss chocolatiers who had emigrated from the canton of Ticino. He studied pianoforte and composition at the Milan Conservatory. A contemporary of Gioacchino Rossini, he is best known for his 1816 opera La testa di bronzo ("The head of bronze"), which prompted Stendhal’s immediate enthusiasm: “Ce petit Soliva a la figure chétive d'un homme de génie.” (“That little Soliva has the scanty figure of a man of genius.”)Stendhal, Rome, Naples et Florence, entry for 12 November 1816.
The song is a walkaround, which originally began with a few minstrels acting out the lyrics, only to be joined by the rest of the company (a dozen or so individuals for the Bryants).Nathan 260. As shown by the original sheet music (see below), the dance tune used with "Dixie" by Bryant's Minstrels, who introduced the song on the New York stage, was "Albany Beef", an Irish-style reel later included by Dan Emmett in an instructional book he co-authored in 1862."I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land, Written and Composed expressly for Bryant's Minstrels, arranged for the pianoforte by W.L. Hobbs," New York: Firth, Pond & Co., 1860, and New Orleans: P.P. Werlein, 1860.
Stefania Bonfadelli (born 1967) is an Italian operatic soprano. She began studying pianoforte at eight years of age and singing at fourteen in Verona, and later continued these studies in Paris and Vienna. Her operatic debut was with I puritani in 1997 at the Vienna State Opera. She also performs in concerts, notably at the Hamburg State Opera, the Bayerische Staatsoper, Oper Frankfurt, the Opéra de Marseille, the Teatro De La Maestranza in Seville, the Concertgebouw and Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam, the Vienna State Opera, the Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, La Scala in Milan, the Teatro Regio, Turin, the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, and the Teatro Verdi in Trieste.
William Stockley William Cole Stockley (1 February 1830 – 7 September 1919) was an English organist, choirmaster and conductor. Born in Foots Cray in Kent, Stockley moved to Birmingham in 1850 where he worked first as a "pianoforte and music dealer" and then as an organist at St Stephen's Church, Newtown Row in Lozells. While at St. Stephen's he formed a choral society whose success earned him the position of conductor at the Birmingham Festival Choral Society on the retirement of James Stimpson in 1855. Stockley had a transformative effect on the Society, increasing membership from 70 in 1855 to 200 in 1859 moving the choir into more adventurous repertoire, and inviting performances from more prestigious soloists.
Albert showed a natural talent for the piano and singing, and he subsequently became head chorister at St Silas' Church in nearby Lozells. At the age of eleven Ketèlbey joined the Birmingham and Midland Institute school of music (now the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) where he was tutored by Dr Alfred Gaul in composition and Dr H. W. Wareing in harmony. At the age of thirteen Ketèlbey composed his first serious piece of music, "Sonata for Pianoforte", which, for Tom McCanna, his biographer, "shows a precocious mastery of composition". Ketèlbey competed for a scholarship to Trinity College of Music in London, and received the highest marks of all entrants; the future composer Gustav Holst came second.
After Cristofori invented the pianoforte from the harpsichord in 1700, and after it became popular in the decades after 1740, eventually replacing the harpsichord, the piano technique developed tremendously (it was parallel with the piano builders´ progress and piano pedagogy, and as part of it piano fingering changed). There are only few publications about piano fingering. It is mentioned by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (son of Johann Sebastian Bach) in his book Versuch über die wahre Art, das Clavier zu spielen (Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments, ) where he dedicated several paragraphs to this topic (see the German original: "Von der Fingersetzung"). The British pianist Tobias Matthay wrote a small book Principles of Fingering ().
His London debut was on 8 May 1890, at a Royal Philharmonic Society concert, in Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor. He performed it again in London on 12 June, and on 17 June in a concert for Hans Richter he played a Brahms Rhapsody, sharing the platform with Marie Fillunger (1850–1930), lieder singer and intimate of the Schumann-Joachim circle. He also played the Brahms D minor concerto, which George Bernard Shaw called 'a hash of bits and scraps with plenty of thickening in the pianoforte part, which Mr Leonard Borwick played with the enthusiasm of youth in a style technically admirable'. Shaw recommended that he should embark on recitals.
Esposito became chief pianoforte professor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in 1882, and remained there for more than forty years, devoting himself to the encouragement of classical music in Dublin. He inaugurated the Royal Dublin Society chamber-music recitals, with great success, and gave piano recitals for the Society every year. He established the Dublin Orchestral Society in 1898 and was its conductor until its disbandment in 1914, and he was also the conductor of the Sunday Orchestral Concerts until they were discontinued in 1914. He conducted concerts of the London Symphony Orchestra at Woodbrook in 1913 and 1914, and also performed his piano concerto with them under the baton of Hamilton Harty.
At the age of 20 he won a competition to gain the position of piano professor at the Royal Conservatorio of San Pietro a Majella in Naples. He was soon considered a front rank performer in cities throughout Europe, including London, where he appeared in 1886. Although he was considered a great interpreter of J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Chopin, he was also a champion of old Italian music. When Anton Rubinstein was appointed director of the Petrograd Conservatory, he invited Cesi to direct the pianoforte schools there. Cesi accepted the appointment in 1885, remaining until 1891, when he was forced to return to Italy owing to a paralysis which had set in.
The business was founded at 86 Newgate Street, London, in 1855. Later on, branch warehouses were established at 1 Foubert Place, 22 Golden Square, and 81 The Quadrant, Regent Street. By a change of partnership on 26 February 1887, the warehouse in the Quadrant was transferred to Wesley S. B. Woolhouse, while the general business with this exception remaining George Augener's. In the late nineteenth century, Augener & Co.'s catalogue contained upwards of 6,000 works, of which nearly 1,000 were cheap volumes; among these was a comprehensive collection of pianoforte classics edited by Ernst Pauer, as well as an important series of educational works edited by him, by John Farmer, and other well-known musicians.
During the summer of 1889, Sherwood began holding workshops and lessons for piano teachers at the Chautauqua Institution’s summer Music School Festival. Sherwood continued to travel back to Chautauqua every summer to provide instruction at the camp, until the summer of 1910 before his death. In Fall 1889, Sherwood and his wife moved to Chicago, Illinois as he became the Director of the Pianoforte Department in the newly established School for Music and Dramatic Art within the Conservatory of Music. In 1895, Sherwood left his position at the Conservatory of Music to establish his own school, the Sherwood Music School, at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois (now a part of Roosevelt University).
During his development as a pianist, Tan developed a passion for the fortepiano, which he has promoted throughout his career, and thereby changed other musicians' perceptions of this instrument. He has now returned mainly to the pianoforte and performs a wide-ranging repertoire from Bach to Messiaen. Of Messiaen, Tan has announced that mastering the composer's Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus has been his proudest accomplishment: "It took me nearly two years to learn it, but it was the most life-enriching, the most life-changing experience because it was so spiritual and it changed the way I performed." He has lived in London since 1978, and continues to give concerts worldwide.
As "a lover of music, and no mean performer on the pianoforte" (as one obituarist wrote), he was the local representative of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) in London. He was also President of the North-Eastern Permanent Benefit Building Society (subsequently subsumed into the Newcastle Building Society). He was a Justice of the Peace for Gateshead and was Secretary and Treasurer of the Newcastle Shelter for Stray Cats and Dogs (being a lover of dogs in particular, and being deeply distressed by the mere thought of unnecessary animal suffering). Like his father and grandfather before him, he was a Hereditary Freeman of Newcastle and was a member of the ancient House Carpenters’ Company.
Belt also ventured into the area of user-built kit instruments, following the lead of Wolfgang Zuckermann, who had introduced a hugely successful harpsichord kit, and Frank Hubbard, who had created a more demanding but more historically authentic harpsichord kit. Belt sold his first pianoforte kit to Hubbard in 1972. Later on (1975-1979), Belt went to work for Zuckermann Harpsichords, by then under the leadership of David Jacques Way, where he collaborated with Way on a kit based on the Mozart Walter replica. The kit was only modestly successful: it went into production in 1979 with a run of about 200 copies, which eventually were sold over a period of ten years.
In 1903, after over a decade of observation, analysis, and experimentation, he published The Act of Touch, an encyclopedic volume that influenced piano pedagogy throughout the English- speaking world. So many students were soon in quest of his insights that two years later he opened the Tobias Matthay Pianoforte School, first in Oxford Street, then in 1909 relocating to Wimpole Street, where it remained for the next 30 years. He soon became known for his teaching principles that stressed proper piano touch and analysis of arm movements. He wrote several additional books on piano technique that brought him international recognition, and in 1912 he published Musical Interpretation, a widely read book that analyzed the principles of effective musicianship.
USJ-R Main Campus facade (classrooms fully air-conditioned) A top view image of USJ-R main campus Established by the Order of Augustinian Recollects in Cebu City in 1947, the then Colegio de San Jose - Recoletos held classes in a portion of a convent, which can be traced back on 1621, and in an old building. On July 25, 1948, CSJ-R's second year marked the blessing of the college building in the then Carmelo Street, now Leon Kilat Street. With the rise of the new building, collegiate courses were offered. Liberal Arts, Education, Commerce, Secretarial, Vocational courses and Pianoforte were the first set of courses offered by CSJ-R in the college level.
Compton Mackenzie suggested that Elgar himself should play the piano for the recording, but the composer refused the invitation replying, "I never play the pianoforte - I scramble through things orchestrally in a way that would madden with envy all existing pianists". It was subsequently recorded electrically for HMV by Harriet Cohen and the Stratton Quartet at the beginning of October 1933, immediately before the composer became seriously ill. Test pressings were rushed to Elgar's bedside; the pleasure he gained from them inspired Fred Gaisberg to record the Quintet as a Christmas present to the ailing composer. The work took some years to establish itself in the repertoire, but in recent years it has been performed and recorded many times.
Cole was born in the USA, lived in Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom as a child, and moved to Canada in 1984. She graduated from The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto at the age of 13, making her the second youngest to receive the school's ARCT degree (the youngest was Glenn Gould); at RCM she studied with Marina Geringas. She later studied piano at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University with the pianist and conductor Leon Fleisher, and flute with flutist Robert Willoughby. Other studies brought her to the Fondazione Internazionale per il pianoforte in Cadenabbia, Italy, and to the University of Montreal, where she earned her Masters in Music and studied with Marc Durand.
Though also a composer, Alessandro Parisotti is better known today as the original editor of a collection of songs known as Arie antiche (Arie antiche: ad una voce per canto e pianoforte, Milan, 1885–1888). The original collection comprises three volumes of songs or arias published as a primer to study classical singing, but the three volumes have since been reduced to single-volumed extracts known as the 24 Italian Songs and Arias. The original Arie Antiche are still available through Ricordi, Schirmer, and Kalmus. Parisotti collected these antique arias (arie antiche is the Italian) in what was the 19th century vogue for discovering forgotten old or antique music from the classical and baroque eras.
The Royal Gallery displays a number of portraits of Victoria and Prince Albert, and paintings illustrating their lives, by Jansen and Winterhalter. The oil paintings are copies of those in London. They include: Victoria receiving the sacrament at her coronation in Westminster Abbey (June 1838); Victoria's marriage to Albert in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace (1840); the christening of the Prince of Wales in Windsor Castle (1842); the marriage of Edward VII to Princess Alexandra (1863); Victoria at the First Jubilee service at Westminster Abbey (1887) and the Second Jubilee service at St. Paul's Cathedral (June 1897). Victoria's childhood rosewood pianoforte and her correspondence desk from Windsor Castle stand in the centre of the room.
The finale opens with a short flourishing introductory passage which leads to the statement of a resolute theme by the solo instrument. After this has been developed at considerable length the pianoforte introduces a contrasting theme of flowing character, to which the clarinet attaches itself shortly. Presently the development of the resolute opening theme is resumed, leading to the entrance of still another subject, given out softy but decidedly by the clarinet and the violas, and worked up forthwith in alternation and combination with the resolute opening theme. The flowing second theme returns, the movement mounting thence to a climax, at the pinnacle of which the resolute opening theme of the first movement reappears in enlarged rhythm.
He published in Florence (especially with Genesio Venturini and Angiolo Lucherini), Milan (with Giovanni Canti and Ricordi)Casamorata published some extracts with Ricordi, the only that have survived, of the opera Iginia d'Asti, in a printed copy dedicated to his friend Nicola Benvenuti, maestro di cappella in Pisa. See pages of this extracts in Italian Library System website: item 1, item 2, item 3, item 4 and also with Parisian (Delanchy) and London-based publishers (Boosey). Many of his sacred compositions circulate in well-known magazines. The Palatina Library in Parma has the first edition (around 1831) of the Variazioni per pianoforte on a theme from Sonnambula by Bellini, printed by Artaria (Milan) and Lucherini (Florence), work that was published in the variation for harp by Ricordi.
Max Olding has held positions as president of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra Society and deputy chair of the Brisbane Institute of Art. He is patron of the Queensland Piano Tuners and Technicians Guild, and is a Life Member of the Accompanists Guild of Queensland, Inc. Olding is a Churchill Fellow, awarded in 1970 "To investigate new methods and techniques relating to pianoforte teaching and instruction at advanced and tertiary levels - Japan, Russia, Hungary, France, UK, USA". Olding has recorded chamber music including cello and piano works by Australian composer, Dulcie Holland, on the CD, Study in Green: Music of Australian Composers; Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms with violinist, Dene Olding on Great Violin Sonatas; and several pieces with violinist, Dene Olding, on the compilation album, The Essential Violin.
Talented young violin students have the opportunity to evaluate the candidates parallel to the jury of international professionals and to award their own prize. In 2013, supervised by the Leopold Mozart Center of the University of Augsburg, a composition by Ignaz von Beecke from the Oettingen-Wallerstein collection was edited and performed for the first time in over 200 years as part of the competition repertoire. In 2016 a trio by pianist (born 1765 in Nassenbeuren) was edited by pianoforte specialist and used for the second round of the competition. Since 1999 competition repertoire for the second round has included commissioned works by Rodion Shchedrin (4th Violin Competition 1999), (5th Violin Competition 2003), Viktor Suslin (6th Violin Competition 2006) and Frangis Ali-Sade (7th Violin Competition 2009).
Eugenio married Marta Somarè daughter of art critic Enrico Somarè and grand-daughter of painter Cesare Tallone, forebear of a great family of artists including the painter Guido Tallone, the editor and typographer Alberto Tallone and pianoforte builder Cesare Augusto Tallone. After an initial two years at the Department of Engineering Eugenio switched to studying Architecture at the Milan Politecnico under Piero Portaluppi and Gio Ponti, both leading architects and designers. (graduated in 1949) Eugenio Gerli integrated his spatial ideas with innovative solutions for custom-made designed interiors. This philosophy, together with his early studies in Engineering, helped him in the development of models for industrial design His early work was influenced by the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and Charles Eames .
As part of the broad musical education given to her by her father, Clara Wieck learned to compose, and from childhood to middle age she produced a good body of work. Clara wrote that "composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound". Her Op. 1 was Quatre Polonaises pour le pianoforte composed in 1831, and Op. 5 4 Pièces caractéristiques in 1836, all piano pieces for her recitals. She wrote her Piano Concerto in A minor at age 14, with some help from her future husband. She planned a second piano concerto, but only a Konzertsatz in F minor from 1847 survived.
On display are portraits of Beethoven's teachers Joseph Haydn, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and Antonio Salieri, the string quartet instruments provided by Prince Karl von Lichnowsky, a patron of Beethoven during the first years in Vienna (on permanent loan from the State Institute for Music Research, Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin), Beethoven's last instrument, the pianoforte from Conrad Graf,Bonn: den letzten Flügel Ludwig van Beethovens hat kürzlich der hiesige Verein Beethovenhaus erworben... In: Der Klavierlehrer, Jg. 13 (1890), Nr. 2, p. 19: Von hier und außerhalb. and selected composition editions. Portraits of the composer in various stages of his life, the famous bust from Vienna sculptor Franz Klein (1779–1840), Josef Danhauser's lithography "Beethoven on his deathbed" and the death mask deliver an impression of Beethoven's appearance.
Born in Paris, Huvé was a pupil of Claudio Arrau. He also subsequently worked under the leadership of György Cziffra, in frequent - and free - private lessons at the Cziffra foundation of Senlis. Winner of the 2010 Victoire de la musique for his CD of works for piano by Mendelssohn on an 1840 Broadwood piano, Huvé was particularly interested in the expressive possibilities of the romantic 19th century keyboards that his masters passed on to him. A pianoforte specialist, his experience in instrument knowledge has helped to integrate the notion of historically informed interpretation into the works of a vast repertoire and the modern piano, which he approaches in the continuity of historical instruments, taking advantage of the experience they bring him and not in opposition to them.
In a letter to his wife, dated London, February 10, 1902, Busoni wrote: > I have thought it out and decided not to use Oehlenschläger's Aladdin for an > opera, but to write a composition in which drama music, dancing and magic > are combined – cut down for one evening's performance if possible. It is my > old idea of a play with music where it is necessary, without hampering the > dialogue. As a spectacle and as a deep symbolic work it might be something > similar to the Magic Flute; at the same time it would have a better meaning > and an indestructible subject [mit besserem Sinn und einem nicht tot zu > machenden Sujet]. Besides this, I have planned 6 works for the summer, the > principal one being the pianoforte Concerto.
Beale originated the national music meetings at the Crystal Palace with the object of bringing meritorious young musicians to the front, and took a leading part in the institution of the New Philharmonic Society, at which Berlioz conducted some of his compositions by Beale's invitation. It was under his management that Thackeray came out as a lecturer. He wrote a large number of songs and pianoforte pieces, besides Instructions in the Art of Singing (London, 1853), and a series of Music Copy Books (London, 1871). In February 1877 he produced at the Crystal Palace a farce called The Three Years' System, and a three-act drama, A Shadow on the Hearth; an operetta, An Easter Egg, was produced at Terry's Theatre in December 1893.
During the 1890s (from 1893) Plunket Greene became one of the foremost British performers and interpreters of the German Lieder, especially of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms. This he did in association with the English pianist Leonard Borwick (the brother of a schoolfriend), a Frankfurt pupil of Clara Schumann's noted for his powerful rhythmic delivery, and who (like his fellow-pupil Fanny Davies) was closely involved in the London work of Joseph Joachim. Plunket Greene and Borwick formed a musical friendship which lasted until Borwick's death. Plunket Greene was touring in America in spring 1893 and wrote to Borwick suggesting they should deliver a song and pianoforte recital in London, unlike the more usual form of miscellaneous concert with a mixed company.
The through-composed piece is written in a very loose sonata form with frequent shifts in tempo, mood, and tonal centre, but has no clear resolution, as would be expected in a typical sonata. It has a lush and highly virtuosic piano part; Scott Goddard argued that "in all English music of the last half-century there has been no purer pianoforte writing than this". The clarinet part covers the instrument's entire range, incorporating both legato and rhythmic passages. A reviewer from the News Chronicle, cited by Colin Lawson, noted that he "had never imagined that clarinet and piano could be combined so satisfactorily; nor that (by a mixture of tact and daring) they could form such an exciting ensemble".
In 1777, Michel-Barthélémy Ollivier painted Wolfgang playing the pianoforte in the Prince of Conti's salon at the Temple, a painting now in the Louvre Museum. Grimm's employer Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, a lover of theatre, with his son. Engraving by Carmontelle, 1759 After their long stay in London (15 months) and Holland (8 months), the Mozarts closed their "Grand Tour", which lasted three years and a half, by stopping over in Paris from 10 May to 9 July 1766, for Mozart's second visit to the French capital. Again, they were helped, guided, and mentored by Grimm. The children were by then 10 and 15 and had lost some of their public appeal as young prodigies on the now somewhat blasés Parisians.
It was manufactured by Hooper & Co., of Millwall and the wire was coated with india rubber, then a new insulator. The Hooper left Plymouth in June, and after touching at Madeira, where Thomson was up 'sounding with his special toy' (the pianoforte wire) 'at half-past three in the morning,' they reached Pernambuco by the beginning of August, and laid a cable to Pará." "During the next two years the Brazilian system was connected to the West Indies and the Río de la Plata but Jenkin was not present on the expeditions. While engaged in this work, the ill-fated La Plata, carrying cable from the Siemens AG company to Montevideo, sank in a cyclone off Ushant with the loss of nearly all her crew.
Douste's parents were natives of the French Pyrenees, but she was born in London on 4 December 1872. Neither her father nor her mother possessed any musical ability, but Douste had scarcely attained the age of four when she began to imitate on the piano that which she heard her elder sister play. For some time she played entirely by ear, without any knowledge of music; she actually performed, by heart, Mozart's pianoforte concertos at the Royal Aquarium Concerts, then under the direction of George Mount, with full orchestral accompaniments. It seems, however, that shortly after this period, Douste met with Henri-Louis-Stanislas Mortier de Fontaine, who, noticing the musical instinct of the child, volunteered to take charge of her artistic education.
These works were written for mostly unknown occasions and artists. They include two concertos for pianoforte, one in C major and one in B flat major (both 1773); a concerto for organ in C Major in two movements (the middle movement is missing from the autograph score, or perhaps, it was an improvised organ solo) (also 1773); and two concertante works: a concerto for oboe, violin and cello in D major (1770), and a flute and oboe concerto in C major (1774). These works are among the most frequently recorded of Salieri's compositions. Upon Gassmann's death on 21 January, most likely due to complications from an accident with a carriage some years earlier, Salieri succeeded him as assistant director of the Italian opera in early 1774.
In 1900 the composer Cyril Rootham wrote his Op.8 "Four Impressions (Killarney)" for solo violin and small orchestra. The work was never published, but Rootham later arranged the work for pianoforte duet (Op.8 No.2, unpublished) and for violin and piano (Op.8.No.3, published in 1902 as "Impressions pour Violon et Piano"). At the beginning of the 20th century, when music-hall songs in England about "Good Old Ireland" were all the rage, a number of these songs included reference to Killarney, notably "My Father Was Born In Killarney - Don’t Run Down The Irish" (1910), "Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral" (1914), "For Killarney and you" (1916), "My little cottage home in sweet Killarney"(1917), "Oh my Lily of Killarney" (1917).
Amid these changes appeared an off-the-cuff complaint about van Swieten's libretto: :NB! This whole passage, with its imitation of the frogs, was not my idea: I was forced to write this Frenchified trash. This wretched idea disappears rather soon when the whole orchestra is playing, but it simply cannot be included in the pianoforte reduction.Cited from Robbins Landon (1959, 197) Robbins Landon continues the story as follows: : Müller foolishly showed the passage in the enclosed sheet, quoted above, to the editor of the Zeitung für die elegante Welt,German: "Journal for the elegant world" who promptly included it in support of his criticism of Swieten's wretchedIt is not clear whether this is Robbins Landon's opinion or the journal editor's. libretto.
She is most ably assisted by Mr. Herbert Sparling, > whose make-up as a pianoforte turner and acting throughout is wonderfully > clever.Brighton & Hove Society, Brighton, Sussex, Thursday, 12 July 1911, p. > 4482b He was Marquis de Bouillaibaise in Baron Trenck at the Strand Theatre (1911);J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1910–1919: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Rowman & Littlefield (2014) – Google Books Percy Fitzwinney on tour in the musical comedy The Boy Scout (1912) with Marie George and C. Hayden Coffin, which he also directed;The Boy Scout at the Grand Theatre, Leeds (1912) - Leeds Play Bills Dickie Bramsgrove in the musical The Officers' Mess at St Martin's Theatre (1918) and after at the Prince's Theatre (1919).
Matiegka was born in the town of Choceň in a remote corner of the state of Bohemia, then part of the Habsburg Monarchy, under the Habsburg ruler Joseph II. Upon completion of his primary studies, he continued his musical education under Abbé Gelinek, becoming accomplished on the pianoforte while reading law at the University of Prague. After legal employment in the service of Count Kinsky, one of Beethoven's original sponsors, Matiegka moved to Vienna while in his late twenties, during the first years of the 19th century. There he was quickly acknowledged as a guitarist, composer and teacher of the piano. His ready acceptance in the musical circles of Vienna was evident by those to whom he dedicated several of his chamber works.
Aristide Farrenc worked as a flautist at the Théâtre italien and founded the Éditions Farrenc, a music publishing company which he left in 1841 to devote himself to musicology. The most famous work published by Farrenc, in collaboration with his wife Louise Farrenc, was the Trésor des pianistesTrésor des pianistes on Gallica in 20 deliveries (1861–1872), containing many works of early music for harpsichord (Couperin, Bach, Haendel, Scarlatti, Rameau, etc.), and sonatas for pianoforte such as those by CPE Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Clementi, Hummel, Dussek, Weber, Beethoven, and Chopin. His wife Louise Farrenc (née Jeanne-Louise Dumont) was a virtuoso pianist, esteemed teacher and composer. After his death in 1865 she continued to publish the Trésor des pianistes until the 20th and last volume in 1872.
Americus built both harpsichords and pianofortes. He is described by composer, musician and chronicler Charles Burney in Rees's Cyclopaedia for 1772 as "a harpsichord maker of second rank, who constructed several pianofortes, and improved the mechanism in some particulars, but the tone, with all the delicacy of Schroeter's (see below) touch, lost the spirit of the harpsichord and gained nothing in sweetness". Nevertheless, one of his harpsichords was owned and played by the naturalized English castrato, Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci, an intimate friend of Johann Christian Bach and an associate of world-renowned castrato Gaspare Pacchierotti, a regular visitor to London between 1778 and 1791. Tenducci published a set of sonatas for the harpsichord or pianoforte not heard since the 18th century.
A piano The hammered dulcimer was extensively used during the Middle Ages in England, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. Although it had a distinctive name in each country, it was everywhere regarded as a kind of psalterium. The importance of the method of setting the strings in vibration by means of hammers, and its bearing on the acoustics of the instrument, were recognized only when the invention of the pianoforte had become a matter of history. It was then perceived that the psalterium (in which the strings were plucked) and the dulcimer (in which they were struck), when provided with keyboards would give rise to two distinct families of instruments, differing essentially in tone quality, in technique and in capabilities.
Proof sheet of Étude Op. 10, No. 2 with fingerings in Chopin's handwriting, 1833 The technical novelty of this étude is the chromatic scale to be played by the three outer fingers of the right hand together with short semiquaver notes to be played by the first and second fingers of the same hand and the difficulty is to do this evenly in piano and legato at the required tempo of M.M. 144. Other piano composers before Chopin, such as Ignaz Moscheles (1794–1870) in his Études Op. 70,Moscheles, Ignaz. Studien für das Pianoforte zur höheren Vollendung bereits ausgebildeter Klavierspieler, bestehend aus 24 charakteristischen Tonstücken in verschiedenen Dur- und Molltonarten. Leipzig: H. A. Probst, 1827, reprint Kistner, 1860, No. 3, G major, p. 20.
In addition, among the items of Jane Austen's furniture on display at the museum are a Muzio Clementi pianoforte (dated 1813) and a Hepplewhite bureau-bookcase containing several of her works.. The museum also has a collection of other Austen family items and furniture. The museum owns the only three pieces of jewellery known to have been owned by Austen, a turquoise beaded bracelet, a topaz cross, and a turquoise and gold ring. The gold ring had remained in Austen's family until its 2012 sale at auction to the American singer Kelly Clarkson. The British government placed an export ban on the ring owing to its historic importance, and the museum eventually bought the ring by the export deadline, with the help of £100,000 from an anonymous donor.
The surviving works were: Judas Mercator Pessimus (CPM 195), the Matins for the Resurrection (CPM 200), – and the sequentia Lauda Sion (CPM 165), for the feast of Corpus Christi. In this same year he composed the music for two allegoric stage plays, written by Gastão Fausto da Câmara Coutinho: Ulissea, Drama Eroico (CPM 229) and O Triunfo da América (CPM 228) – The Triumph of America. In February 1809, the prince regent, impressed by the improvisations played by Nunes Garcia at the pianoforte in his palace, retrieved a medal from the coat of the baron of Vila Nova and attached it to his garments, making him a knight of the Order of Christ. Still in this year, he was named archivist of the royal music files, just brought from the Queluz Palace in Lisbon to Rio.
Their first was in October 1939, and they performed there about once monthly. Performances included the Gerald Finzi Oboe interlude, with Edward Selwyn (January 1940), a Beethoven concert in early February, Stratton and Moore in a piano trio with Betty Humby (Lady Beecham) (February 1940), a Sibelius concert (March 1940), Stratton, Forbes and Moore with Reginald Paul, as the 'Paul Pianoforte Quartet' (March 1940), an Elgar quintet with Eileen Joyce (May 1940), a recital with Benno Moiseiwitsch and a Mozart recital with oboist Joy Boughton (July 1940), and a quartet recital in August 1940. These performances continued through the war, for example a recital with Myra Hess in January 1941, and with Harriet Cohen and Marie Korchinska (harp) in November 1943.See National Gallery Concerts, 1939-1946 (Myra Hess collection of programmes), The British Library. .
Murdoch's first wife, Ellen Josephine Tuckfield, died; he subsequently married divorcee Dorothy Violet Lang, née Mascall, on 21 March 1921, and after she divorced him, married Antonia Dorothea Meek, née Simon, on 25 November 1925. Murdoch contributed the article on "Pianoforte Music from 1880" to A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians, published in 1924, and in 1929 he again visited Australia and toured with Harold Williams. In 1933 Murdoch published a volume on Brahms, in which he analysed all his work for the piano, and in 1934 appeared Chopin: His Life, an interesting record which made use of much new material. He had intended to include a comprehensive study of Chopin's works in a later volume, but this had not appeared when Murdoch died at Holmbury St Mary, Surrey, on 9 September 1942.
Grové returned to South Africa for a sabbatical in 1960 when he lectured at both the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education as well as the South African College of Music. He returned to South Africa permanently in 1972 and, the following year, was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Pretoria. Grové was one of the first white South African composers to incorporate elements of black African music into his own style, "venturing far beyond mere couleur locale to forge a unique creative synthesis of the indigenous and the "Western"." Grové's 'African' stylistic phase was result of a Damascus moment when he overheard a song sung by an African streetworker. The melody haunted him and inspired the Sonata on African Motives for violin and pianoforte (1984).
For many years Dejan has combined his role as a soloist together with a close collaboration with the well-known pianist Maria Gabriele Vianello, giving many concerts in Italy and in Europe. Among their appearances we remember the concert at the Festival of Feldkirch in Austria, the Veneto Festival (Italy) the concert at the festival of Cervo, the important international festival founded by Sandor Vegh at which have appeared some of the most famous names in classical music over the last 40 years. His musical repertoire is vast and goes from all forms of chamber music to contemporary music. He has played and up till today still plays in the most diverse chamber music groups, in particular with pianoforte in which he has dedicated a particular study and personal research.
Drawing of Ennis by "Cosmopolitan" Ennis was born a son of Matthew Ennis in Dover, but grew up in London where he was educated at the University College School. He sang as a choirboy and gained sufficient expertise in organ playing to take his first church appointment as organist at the age of 14, serving at the Church of St Barnabas, King Square, London, from 1878, then the Church of St Philip, Clerkenwell, from 1883 to 1887 (both Commissioners' churches since demolished).Maggie Humphries, Robert Evans Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland A.& C. Black 1997 After leaving school, Ennis entered the Post Office, meanwhile studying pianoforte under Edward Dannreuther. It was around this time he decided life as a music teacher would be more interesting.
Prout was born in Oundle. He studied piano under Charles Salaman, but was otherwise self-taught. He attended the University of London intended for a career as a scholar, but chose to follow one in music through his love of it. From 1861 to 1873 he was organist of the Union Chapel, Islington. From 1861 to 1885 he was professor of the piano at the Crystal Palace School of Art.Rosemary Williamson, Prout, Ebenezer Oxford Music Online He was awarded first prizes for a string quartet (1862) and a pianoforte quartet (1865) by the Society of British Musicians. In 1871–74 he became Editor of the Monthly Musical Record, and in 1874–79 was music critic for the Academy. In 1863 he was one of the first twenty-one members of the Royal College of Organists.
It is certain that they must have become aware of all kinds of modern developments in this area as they travelled through different countries, which contributed to Friedrich's further refinement of the physharmonica. The Buschmanns knew of an instrument built at about this time by Johann Caspar Schlimbach, an instrument maker trained in Vienna, and his cousin Bernhard Eschenbach in Königshofen in Bavaria: this was a pianoforte with an aeoline register. Schlimbach made no attempt to protect his invention, but freely showed the instrument to everyone who wanted to see it, with the inevitable result that a number of people patented very similar instruments in Vienna. Indeed, Buschmann's father Johann wrote in a letter of 30 October 1829 that he was thinking of taking out a patent for the new instrument in Bavaria.
In 1991 he did military service in the Banda Nazionale of the Italian Army. The master of the band noticed his piano talent and decided to put the piano soloist in his "inventory." He played the Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin and the Warsaw Concerto by Richard Addinsell in his capacity as the piano soloist of the Banda during a tour in numerous Italian theatres. At the end of his military service Allevi started presenting in concert a repertory formed exclusively of his own compositions for pianoforte while at the same time attending courses of "Bio-music and music therapy" by professor Mario Corradini, in which he enhanced his awareness of music's great power of "setting minds free" and its ability to evoke memories, images and emotions.
He was seated on a stool, which was placed on the pianoforte […].” Most of Regondi's concertina music was written for the English system, however, at which he was a virtuoso,The Times, 26 April 1837; p. 5; "GREAT CONCERT-ROOM – KING'S THEATRE […] There was also a novelty in the shape of an instrument called 'a concertina,' an improvement on the accordion, which has been such a favourite musical toy for the last two or three years. The tones of this instrument are sweet and pleasing; but far more striking than the concertina itself were the feeling and ease with which it was played by that clever little boy Giulio Regondi, who executed several intricate passages with surprising facility and precision." though his guitar music is probably better known.
The organ, because of the full tone and sometimes massive sound, as in, for example, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, and, in addition, the use of the feet with the pedalboard, presents a particular challenge in piano transcription. Busoni wrote a 36-page essay "On the Transcription of Bach's Organ Works for the Pianoforte" which appeared as the First Appendix to Volume I of the Klavierwerke, originally published in 1894. Topics covered include (1) doublings: simple doubling of the pedal-part (five types), simple doubling of the manual-parts, doubling in the octave of all pedal- and manual-parts, tripling in octaves; (2) registration; (3) additions, omissions, liberties; (4) use of the piano-pedals: the damper-pedal (loud pedal), the soft pedal, the sustaining-pedal; interpretation (styles of playing); and supplementary: arrangements for two pianos and free adaptations.Busoni (1894), pp. 157-186.
They soon parted ways, however, with Heintzman taking his family to Buffalo where he started again; Steinweg eventually changed his name to Steinway and became a successful piano manufacturer in his own right. In Buffalo, Heintzman worked at Keogh Piano Company (located at what is now Fireman's Park) before he started the a piano forte firm with Francis Drew and Henry Annowsky (1853 as Drew, Heintzman and Annowsky at 10 and Court Street), which he ran until it went under in 1858. From 1858 to 1860 Heintzman ran Western Pianoforte Manufactory Company in Hamilton, Ontario (founded in 1856 by Charles Thomas). In 1860, Heintzman moved to Toronto, where he constructed his first four pianos in the kitchen of his son-in-law; these sold well, and with the proceeds he was able to found Heintzman & Co., Ltd.
Somerville's published works for piano include: "Alpine Roses – Morceau" (1913); "Automobile waltz" (1912); "Carina – Morceau pizzicato pour Piano" (1911); "The Honey Bee – Humoresque for the piano" (1924); "Intermezzo" (1922); "The Mountaineers – Pianoforte Selection" (1913); "Three Dances" (1922); and "Three Light Pieces for Piano: Bagatelle, Melody, and Valse" (1911). Among his orchestral works are "Four Fancies – Suite" (1925); "Funeral of a Flea" (1928); "Nucleus Themes, No. 1" (1927); "Razzle-Dazzle" (1928); and "Two Grotesque Recitations (1927)". Songs by Somerville include: "All the Way to Coventry" (1913);British Library integrated catalogue, accessed 4 September 2010 "Call the yowes to the knowes" (1891);The Musical Times, August 1891, pp. 491–92 "God Sends the Night" (1908);The Musical Times, May 1908, pp. 317–20 "The Hour I love the best of all" (1924); "The Lark and the Nightingale" (1900);The Musical Times , April 1900, pp.
The minuets tend to have a strong downbeat and a clearly popular character. Over time, Haydn turned some of his minuets into "scherzi" which are much faster, at one beat to the bar. One of the most apt tributes to Haydn was spoken by the poet John Keats. Keats, dying of tuberculosis, was brought to Rome by his friends in November 1820, in the hope that the climate might help to mitigate his suffering. (The poet died a few weeks later on 23 February 1821, at the age of 25.) According to his friend Joseph Severn: “About this time he expressed a strong desire that we had a pianoforte, so that I might play to him, for not only was he passionately fond of music, but found that his constant pain and o'erfretted nerves were much soothed by it.
Of the nine pianoforte duets by Mozart two, the Adagio and Allegro in F minor and the Fantasia in F minor, were originally written for a mechanical organ or musical clock in a Vienna exhibition, and were afterwards arranged for piano by an unknown hand; among the others, the sonatas KV 497 and KV 521 from the Vienna years stand out. Among the best-known composers, Schubert made the fullest use of the original effects possible to music "à quatre mains." His compositions include the Sonata in C major for piano four-hands, D 812, the Divertissement à la hongroise, D 818, and Fantasia in F minor for piano four-hands, D 940. In addition to these he wrote fourteen marches, six polonaises, four sets of variations, three rondos, one sonata, one set of dances, and four separate pieces.
Study and specialization, even though very engaging, did not impede his intensive concert activity; in fact, in just two years, apart from numerous recitals with pianoforte, Bogdanovic performed violin concertos by Henryk Wieniawski, Niccolò Paganini, Ludwig van Beethoven (Triple Concerto), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Henri Vieuxtemps, Max Bruch under the baton of Lev Markiz, Igor Djadrov, Mladen Jagust, T. Ninic, M. Horvat and, when the programme permitted, played as soloist and directed at the same time. In 1985, the European music year and year of Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti, in Vienna a special violin competition was organized in which Dejan Bogdanovic was invited to take part along with 40 other violinists from all over the world. Excelling in the various tests and playing Mozart's Concerto no. 5 for violin and orchestra he won, with a special mention, the first prize.
The Queensland school closed in 1968. At the turn of the century Mungindi had its own newspaper, a hospital, a doctor, a solicitor, two schools, two post offices, a brewery, at least four hotels, two police stations (one in each state), with three men stationed at each, two race clubs, a P.& A. Society, two butchers, two hairdressers, two dressmakers and milliners, a shoemaker, a saddler, a baker, a tailor, a saw mill, a pawnbroker, a teacher of pianoforte, violin and oil painting, about four contract carpenters, a housepainter and decorator, a bricklayer and a tinsmith. Its approximately 250 residents enjoyed many shared entertainments. Balls and dances, fairs and shows, concerts and travelling tent shows, and fortnightly meetings of the Literary and Debating Society. In the 'Sportsman’s Paradise',fishing, bicycling, horse racing, cricket, billiards and tennis were keenly pursued.
The composer continued with the composition of other 'serious' classical pieces, thus demonstrating the flexibility and eclecticism that always has been an integral part of his character. Many orchestral and chamber compositions date, in fact, from the period between 1954 and 1959: Musica per archi e pianoforte (1954), Invenzione, Canone e Ricercare per piano; Sestetto per flauto, oboe, fagotto, violino, viola, e violoncello (1955), Dodici Variazione per oboe, violoncello, e piano; Trio per clarinetto, corno, e violoncello; Variazione su un tema di Frescobaldi (1956); Quattro pezzi per chitarra (1957); Distanze per violino, violoncello, e piano; Musica per undici violini, Tre Studi per flauto, clarinetto, e fagotto (1958); and the Concerto per orchestra (1957), dedicated to his teacher Goffredo Petrassi. Morricone soon gained popularity by writing his first background music for radio dramas and quickly moved into film.
As I do not know very much of the laws which regulate literary and musical proprietorship in Saxony, I had spoken to him about the Beethoven symphonies, of which I have undertaken the arrangement, or, more correctly speaking, the pianoforte score. To tell the truth, this work has, nevertheless, cost me some trouble; whether I am right or wrong, I think it sufficiently different from, not to say superior to, those of the same kind which have hitherto appeared. The recent publication of the same Symphonies, arranged by Mr. Kalkbrenner, makes me anxious that mine should not remain any longer in a portfolio. I intend also to finger them carefully, which, in addition to the indication of the different instruments (which is important in this kind of work), will most certainly make this edition much more complete.
Organ of Châlons Cathedral, delivered in 1849 and housed in a case designed by Jean-Jacques Arveuf-Fransquin Abbey was born at Whilton, a Northamptonshire village, on 22 December 1785. In his youth, he was an apprentice for James and David Davis, and later for Hugh Russel after 1818, both reputable organ builders in their day. In 1826 Abbey went to Paris, on the invitation of Sébastien Érard, the celebrated harp and pianoforte maker, to work upon an organ which Érard had designed, and which he sent to the Exhibition of the Productions of National Industry in 1827, and also to build an organ for the Convent of the Legion of Honour, at St. Denis. He also built an organ from Érard's design for the chapel of the Tuileries, which, however, had only a short existence, being destroyed in the Revolution of 1830.
This brilliant composition opens with what may be taken as its principal theme, inasmuch as it furnishes most of the material for the development, and also reappears in the last movement as a climax to the whole work. The announcement of this resolute subject (by flutes, oboes, clarinets and bassoons accompanied lightly by horns, violas, cellos and contrabasses) is followed by a short solo cadenza, after which the unfolding of the musical picture begins. As this proceeds, several subsidiary melodies come to notice, prominent among them being one which (while hinted at before) does not assume its formal shape until given out, grazioso, by the pianoforte alone following a short upward chromatic scale passage. This graceful subject also figures conspicuously in the development which, after passing through a succession of interesting stages, culminates finally in a rousing climax.
Cheng is a pianist who specialises in lieder and art song. She was awarded the Sheila Mossman Memorial Award from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and was the first recipient of the Brighton and Hove Arts Council Award for the Musician of the Year. In Chicago, she gave a recital in the Pianoforte Chicago recital series; she performed Schwanengesang and Winterreise with Paul Geiger at Schubertiade Chicago in 2005 and 2006 respectively, and Die Schöne Müllerin with Ryan de Ryke at Schubertiade Chicago 2007. She performed lieder with tenor Nicholas Harkness in the Noontime Recital Series at the University of Chicago, the Salon Series at the Tower Club, and the Maxwell Recital Series, and she gave recitals for the Auxiliary Board Chapter of the Lyric Opera; she also performed La Traviata at the Oak Park Village Players.
He made his London debut in 1979, at the age of 17, with an all-Alkan concert that included Alkan's Concerto for solo piano and Ouverture from Op. 39. At the age of 20 he won First Prize in the Newport International Pianoforte Competition, with a performance with the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4. In 1984 he made his Queen Elizabeth Hall debut performing J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations, Chopin's "Funeral March" Sonata and Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit, after which recital The Times wrote that Gibbons "could be Britain's answer to Ivo Pogorelić". Since then Gibbons has played in many prestigious venues and festivals all over the world, as recitalist and concerto soloist. For 16 years, from 1990 to 2005, Gibbons gave annual all-Gershwin concerts at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, with a gap in 2001 following a near-fatal car accident.
Utsav Lal has performed several piano concerts with a repertoire of Indian ragas at venues including Carnegie Hall, New York, John F. Kennedy Center, Washington DC, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, KonsertHuset, Sweden, Southbank Centre, London and others. Lal holds a Bachelors in Jazz from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow and a Masters in Contemporary Improvisation from the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston. Lal won Ireland's MAMA Award (2008) for Multiculturalism in the individual category, Yamaha Jazz Scholar award (2014), TiE Aspire Young Indian Achiever Award (2012) and was named a Young Steinway Artist (2010) by piano-makers, Steinway & Sons. Indian record label Times Music released his debut album Piano Moods of Indian Ragas in 2008. Subsequent album releases are "Ragas Dance off Piano Keys", "Ragas Al Pianoforte", "Ragas to Reels", and a solo recording of ragas on the ”Fluid Piano”, released by the "Fluid Piano" tuning label (2016).
Charles Van Benthuysen, Albany, 1851 p.69 In 1851 Gilbert patented actions for horizontal and vertical pianos where escapement was operated by a lower extension of the hammer butt instead of by a fixed button in order to reduce the number of parts to allow a lighter touch, and with an additional projection to limit the motion of the jack to improve repetition.Timothy Gilbert "Pianoforte Action" United States Patent no. 8,389 September 30, 1851; Timothy Gilbert & Co. "Square Piano with Aeolian Attachment" 1854. Musical Instruments, accession number 1980.269, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston They granted their New York and general agencies to Horace Waters the same year, and Waters advertised their iron frame squares with the circular scale as well as upright grands and boudoir pianos.advertisement Statistical Gazetteer of the State of Virginia...to 1854 Richard Edwards, Richmond, 1855p.434; advertisement Brooklyn Daily Eagle November 5, 1853 p.
Mozart evidently had a prodigious ability to "compose on the spot"; that is, to improvise at the keyboard. This ability was apparent even in his childhood, as the Benedictine priest Placidus Scharl recalled: > Even in the sixth year of his age he would play the most difficult pieces > for the pianoforte, of his own invention. He skimmed the octave which his > short little fingers could not span, at fascinating speed and with wonderful > accuracy. One had only to give him the first subject which came to mind for > a fugue or an invention: he would develop it with strange variations and > constantly changing passages as long as one wished; he would improvise > fugally on a subject for hours, and this fantasia-playing was his greatest > passion.Deutsch 1965, 512 The composer André Grétry recalled: > Once in Geneva I met a child who could play everything at sight.
For instance, he gave the premiere of Pfitzner's Sechs Studien für das Pianoforte, Op. 51, of which he was the dedicatee,Williamson, John, The Music of Hans Pfitzner, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 shortly after its composition in 1943Kater, Michael H., Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 and in the 1950s, he performed Kurt Hessenberg's Piano Concerto, Op. 21 (1939).Cassandra Artists, Hessenberg, Kurt, A Brief Autobiography Nonetheless, notwithstanding his pioneering work for music of the Second Viennese School and other moderns of his day, Wührer's principal focus as a performer, his posthumous reputation, and his recorded legacy came to rest on performances of music from the romantic era, particularly works in the German and Austrian traditions. Later in life, Wührer was a juror at the Second Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1966, which awarded first prize to Radu Lupu.
In 1874, he composed a Danza dei folletti, and in 1878 he wrote the cantata Michelangelo Buonarroti, but from then on, he found little support even in publishing (two of his editors, Guidi from Florence and Lucca from Milan, who also found themselves in a downfall, which eventually brought them to the merger with Tito Ricordi). In 1880, he donated a mass to the Conservatory of Naples (see Sources), and continued to find commissions by aristocrats for a while (a Messa for the Duke of San Clemente in 1882, a Coro per voci bianche e pianoforte for the Demidoff family in 1885). He also composed for the city (the Inno all'Arte for the unveiling of the new face of the Duomo by Emilio De Fabris in 1886An uncertain fact: the unveiling was in 1887 and contemporary accounts state that the music performed was by Luigi Cherubini.
He was born in London in 1826, youngest son of the dramatist George Macfarren, and brother of the musician Sir George Alexander Macfarren. In his fourth year he showed gifts for music; he was a choir-boy at Westminster Abbey under James Turle (1836–41), and sang at the coronation of Queen Victoria. When his voice broke, he had thoughts of becoming an artist, and took some lessons in painting, and then served as salesman in a piano shop in Brighton. At the persuasion of his brother, Macfarren entered the Royal Academy of Music in October 1842, studying the piano under W. H. Holmes and composition under his brother and Cipriani Potter. In January 1846 he became a Sub-professor of the pianoforte, and remained on the staff of the Royal Academy for fifty-seven years, for many years lecturing there six times annually and teaching the piano.
The date of Americus's indentures could not be before 1711, the year that Silbermann set up his organ workshop and could equally have been post-1730 by which time the workshop was turning out harpsichords and pianos with Silbermann designed actions in square and in harpsichord cases. Americus was the first of twelve of Silbermann's apprentices to depart for England. Since we know that Zumpe, next to set up shop in England, arrived in 1756, Americus must have been here before this, yet we have no record of his domicile or trade until 1763 when he took up residence in London's Jermyn Street (with the Anglicized Christian name of Andrew) where, according to the rate books of St. James, Piccadilly, he lived until 1778. A.J. Hipkins in his History of the Pianoforte reports that Americus died in that year but does not give his age.
Theodoropoulous received the Andreas and Iphigeneia Syngros Silver Medal for her piano skill in 1910 and was appointed to teach music history and pianoforte at the conservatoire. During this early period, seeking different methods to express herself, Theodoropoulous wrote at least two plays. One, entitled Chance or will () (1906), which was not performed as it was semi-autobiographical, and Sparks dying out (), which was performed in 1912 by Marika Kotopouli. In 1911, she became involved with establishing the Sunday School for Working Women () (KSE), an organization which demanded for the first time that education for women was a right. During the Balkan War (1912–13), she returned to volunteering as a nurse and was honored for her participation with the Medal of the Hellenic Red Cross, the Queen Olga Medal, the Medal of the Balkan War and the Medal of the Greco- Bulgarian War.
In the early 1880s Dedekam would turn to another woman composer from Arendal by the name of Theodora Cormontan, the first woman professional music publisher in Norway. The Cormontan Music Publishing Company released two Dedekam songs in 1885 with the apparent intent of publishing more than 40 of them, but Arendal's severe economic depression of 1886 resulted in the dissolution of Cormontan's business. Dedekam's most enduring set of songs is her "6 Sange: udsatte for to syngestemmer og pianoforte" ("6 Songs for two voices and piano"), originally published by Wilhelm Hansen and reissued by Recital Publications in 2009. The collection includes "Sang af ‘Arne’" (text by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson), "Naar Solen ganger til Hvile" (text by Valdemar Adolph Thisted), "De to Drosler" (text by Christian Winther), "Taaren" (text by Hans Christian Andersen), "Ungbirken" (text by Jørgen Moe), and "Hvad jeg elsker" (text again by Andersen).
He is a major prize- winner of more than 15 national and international competitions, including Schubert International Piano Competition in Dortmund (Germany), Maria Yudina International Piano Competition in Saint Petersburg (Russia), the First Gnesin International Piano Competition in Moscow (Russia), Rachmaninov International Piano Competition (Russia), Novosibirsk International Piano Competition (Russia) and Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist Competition (UK). He also won second prize at Isidor Bajic International Piano Competition (Serbia), first prize at Mendelssohn Cup Competition in Taurisano (Italy), first and public prizes at Schumann Prize International Competition in Lamporecchio (Italy). Lapshin has given recitals and made concerto appearances at various concert halls throughout the UK and EuropeFondazione Pistoiese Promusica. Cartellone Stagione Di Musica Da Camera 2011 , Konstantin Lapshin (pianoforte). 26 February 2011 including Wigmore Hall in London, Purcell Room at the South Bank Centre, Cadogan Hall, Steinway Hall, Drapers’ Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. George's, Hanover Square, Pushkin House, Bridgewater Hall The official website of BBC Music Magazine.
His voice was a baryton (a medium between the tenor and the bass) of no great power or compass, but of a sweet and mellow quality. He sang with simplicity, without any attempt at ambitious ornament, but with a great deal of taste and expression; and, being a poet as well as a musician, he was particularly attentive to a clear and emphatic utterance of the words... In singing, he accompanied himself with facility and neatness, on an instrument of a peculiar kind, combining the properties of the pianoforte and the chamber organ, and so constructed that the performer could produce the tones of either instrument separately, or of both in combination. To this instrument were attached a set of bells, a side drum, a tambourine, and a gong, which he could bring into play by various mechanical contrivances, so as to give a pleasing variety to his accompaniments.'Hogarth (Ed.), Songs of Charles Dibdin (1848), Vol.
However, the increase of power and variety obtainable by two performers instead of one offers a legitimate inducement to composers to write original music in this form, and the opportunity has been by no means neglected, although cultivated to a less extent than might have been expected. The earliest known printed works for the pianoforte à quatre mains were published in Dessau about 1782, under the title Drey Sonaten füre Clavier als Doppelstücke fur zwey Personen mit vier Handen von C. H. Müller. However, before this, Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, the musical director at Weimar in 1761, had written one or more sonatas for two performers, which were published after his death. So far as is known these were the first compositions of their kind, although the idea of the employment of two performers (but not on one instrument) may have originated with Johann Sebastian Bach, who wrote three concertos for two harpsichords, three for three, and one for four, all with accompaniment of stringed instruments.
Pratt was born in Norwich, Connecticut to Sarah (Whittlesey) and George Pratt, a Yale-educated lawyer. His maternal grandfather, Oramel Whittlesey, was a pianoforte maker and founder in 1835 of Music Vale Seminary in Salem, Connecticut, the first music school in the country authorized to confer degrees to teach music. At 16, Pratt began studying at the Yale University School of Fine Arts, where his teachers included John Henry Niemeyer (1839–1932) and John Ferguson Weir (1841–1926). After graduating from Yale, he enrolled at the Art Students League of New York where he took classes from William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), Kenyon Cox (1859–1919), Francis Edwin Elwell (1858–1922), and most important, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), who became his mentor. After a short stint in Saint-Gaudens' private studio, Pratt traveled to Paris, where he trained with sculptors Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu (1833–1891) and Alexandre Falguière (1831–1900) at the École des Beaux- Arts.
In the ten years that followed his return to Turin in 1901, Sinigaglia transcribed an enormous amount of popular song from the oral tradition, largely collected on the hills of Cavoretto. Many of these were arranged for singer and pianoforte in a style that is reminiscent of the German songs of the late 19th century: they include a set of twelve Old popular songs of Piedmont (published initially in Leipzig by Breitkopf & Härtel, 1914; a third and fourth edition were published in 1921, and a fifth and sixth in 1927). As well as this collection, for which Sinigaglia's name is still remembered today, his other compositions of the same period show a deep love for the musical spirit of his native region, as for example in the two Piedmontese Dances opus 31 (1905) and the Suite for orchestra "Piemonte" (1909). Both of these are closely identified with the name of Arturo Toscanini, who performed them frequently.
4 in F minor)? (unfinished) :Alternative titles: ::1) Zwei Kompositionen in d-Moll und f-Moll für Pianoforte (Kindermann) ::2) Two Pieces in D minor and F minor for Piano (fragments) (Roberge) ::3) 2 pieces Op. 6, for piano (Beaumont) ::4) Sonata fragment Op. 6 (Sitsky) :MS: SB78 ::Comprises: :::1) Titlepage: "Op. 6" :::2) Piece in D minor (3 pages, fragment) :::3) Piece in F minor (5 pages, fragment) ::Notes: :::1) On the last page of (3) is written: "Sonata 4ª" :::2) On the first page of (3) are listed: ::::Iª Sonata Do magg: [probably BV 58 ::::IIª Sonata Re magg: [probably BV 61] ::::IIIª Sonata Mi magg: [probably BV 65] ::::IVª Sonata Fa min: [probably this work, BV 57] ::::Vª Sonata [to] IXª Sonata [all without indication of key] :::This list probably refers to an intended set of sonatas which was never completed. (Kindermann, Sitsky) :Ref: Kindermann, pp. 51-52; Sitsky, pp.
Wis (1977), p. 256. Paul described Busoni at this time as "a small, slender Italian with chestnut beard, grey eyes, young and gay, with ... a small round cap perched proudly on his thick artist's curls".Wis (1977), p. 255. Between 1888 and 1890, Busoni gave about thirty piano recitals and chamber concerts in Helsingfors;Wis (1977), pp. 267–269. amongst his compositions at this period were a set of Finnish folksongs for piano duet (Op. 27).Wis (1977), p. 258. In 1889, visiting Leipzig, he heard a performance on the organ of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565), and was persuaded by his pupil Kathi Petri—the mother of his future pupil Egon Petri, then only five years old—to transcribe it for piano. Busoni's biographer Edward Dent writes that "This was not only the beginning of [his] transcriptions, but ... the beginning of that style of pianoforte touch and technique which was entirely [Busoni's] creation."Dent (1933), p. 86.
The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. The word piano is a shortened form of pianoforte, the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument, which in turn derives from gravicembalo col piano e forte(key cymbal with quieter and louder)Pollens (1995, 238) and fortepiano. The Italian musical terms piano and forte indicate "soft" and "loud" respectively, in this context referring to the variations in volume (i.e.
Encouraged by Joe Wood he became an adept pianist and reliable tuner; he also took up the cornet and developed into a fine violinist. In his short and crowded life (he died at the age of 39) he held various posts as organist; in addition to the Huddersfield Choral Society, he conducted the Holmfirth and Keighley Societies and also further afield. The programmes given by the orchestra in John North’s day were typical of the period with a multiplicity of items; the orchestra played nothing more substantial than an overture, and vocal and instrumental solos predominated. The October 1888 concert, for instance, featured two vocalists, two pianists and a violinist; the purely orchestral works ranged from Rossini’s Semiramide overture and a gavotte (True Love) to a selection from Cellier’s Dorothy and a Waldteufel waltz. Three years later a similar programme was given, though this did contain a full concerto – Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto played on the ‘grand pianoforte’ by Master G G Stocks.
The hostility she showed in the confrontations with the brief experience of the democratic government instituted in Tuscany in 1849 is testimony to her political and social moderatism. In 1850 she moved from Pisa to Florence, where she received the invitation to direct the new “Istituto italiano di educazione femminile” in Genova that was inaugurated on November 15th, and for which Franceschi had published the teaching program. Firstly, she planned for instruction in religion and of Catholic morals, then of literature and the Italian language, history and geography, mathematics and the sciences, and of activities suitable for the development of the female spirit: domestic work, and artistic disciplines that would give elegance to the person such as gymnastics, drawing and painting, singing and dancing, music, and education in the pianoforte and harp. That experience was brief: her program was critically evaluated from opposing clerical and laical positions, and Franceschi’s irregular presence at the Institute caused her to be dismissed in September 1851.
Collard, son of William and Thamosin Collard, was baptised at Wiveliscombe, Somerset, on 21 June 1772, and coming to London at the age of fourteen, obtained a situation in the house of Longman, Lukey, & Broderip, music publishers and pianoforte makers at 26 Cheapside. In 1799 Longman & Co. fell into commercial difficulties, and a new company, consisting of John Longman, Muzio Clementi, Frederick Augustus Hyde, F. W. Collard, Josiah Banger, and David Davis, took over the business, but on 28 June 1800 Longman and Hyde retired, and the firm henceforth was known as Muzio Clementi & Co. After some time William Frederick Collard was admitted a partner, and on 24 June 1817 Banger went out. On 24 June 1831 the partnership between F. W. Collard, W. F. Collard, and Clementi expired, and the two brothers continued the business until 24 June 1842, when W. F. Collard retired, and F. W. Collard, then sole proprietor, took into partnership his two nephews, Frederick William Collard, jun., and Charles Lukey Collard.
Among the best of them are four volumes of anthems, the first three published in 1805, and the fourth soon after his appointment at Hereford Cathedral. He also composed a great number of songs, one of which--"Bird of the Wilderness," written to some well- known verses by James Hogg, the "Ettrick Shepherd"—attained a high degree of popularity. But the great work of his life was the publication, in a popular and eminently useful form, of the oratorios of Handel, which he was the first to present to the public with a complete pianoforte accompaniment. Press cutting - Bury & Norwich Post 1 June 1814 - Tuesdays Gazette: John Clarke, of Emanuel House, Cambridge, Dr. in music, only son and heir of John Clarke, late of Malmesbury, Wilts, Gent, by Amphillis his wife, (who was at length the only surviving child of Henry Fotherly Whitfield, of Rickmansworth Park, deceased) has his Majesty's licence and authority to take and use the surname and arms of Whitfield only.
At the first, Sir Eugene Goossens and Boult conducted an all- British concert on 14 June 1921: Josef Holbrooke - Overture to The Children; Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending; Sir Eugene Goossens - symphonic poem, The Eternal Rhythm; Cyril Scott - Piano Concerto (the composer at the pianoforte); and Holst's The Planets. This concert included the first performance of the orchestral version of The Lark Ascending, played by Marie Hall who owned a Viotti Stradivarius. Rosing Opera Week at the Aeolian Hall, June 1921, with the BSO At the second "Orchestral Plebiscite Concert" on 16 June, Hamilton Harty conducted Elgar's Enigma Variations and Bantock's The Sea Reivers: and Walter Damrosch took the podium for performances of the 'Dirge' from Edward McDowell's Indian Pieces, Adventures in a Perambulator by John Alden Carpenter and three numbers from Damrosch's own Iphigenia in Aulis. The Russian tenor recitalist Vladimir Rosing presented a week of small-scale opera at the Aeolian Hall from 25 June to 2 July 1921, with stage director Theodore Komisarjevsky.
Former Belmont Parish Church, Great George Street, Hillhead, where Whittaker conducted the last concert of the Bach Cantata Choir in Byrd's Great Service and Bach's Motet "Sing ye to the Lord" on 29 March 1941 Despite the difficulties he encountered, Whittaker nevertheless found a kindred spirit and friend in the main professor of pianoforte Philip Halstead, whom he described as a "splendid all-round musician"; and was given unpaid support by Harold Thomson, a former student at the Academy who became a close friend. Assisted by them and others, he succeeded in setting up a three-year Diploma course. Somewhat unexpectedly he also discovered that the local Glasgow Bach Choir had performed very few of Bach's cantatas; they willingly agreed to become part of Whittaker's new Bach Cantata Choir which performed in Stevenson Hall, the newly built concert hall of the Academy. As a result, Whittaker was able to realise his lifelong ambition of performing all of Bach's cantatas: he performed one third of them in Newcastle and the remaining two thirds in Glasgow.
Portrait by Anton Depauly, of Schubert at the end of his life Franz Schubert's last three piano sonatas, 958, 959 and 960, are the composer's last major compositions for solo piano. They were written during the last months of his life, between the spring and autumn of 1828, but were not published until about ten years after his death, in 1838–39.Robert Winter, "Paper Studies and the Future of Schubert Research", pp. 252–3; M. J. E. Brown, "Drafting the Masterpiece", pp. 21–28; Richard Kramer, "Posthumous Schubert"; Alfred Brendel, "Schubert's Last Sonatas", p. 78; M. J. E. Brown, "Towards an Edition of the Pianoforte Sonatas", p. 215. Like the rest of Schubert's piano sonatas, they were mostly neglected in the 19th century.András Schiff, "Schubert's Piano Sonatas", p. 191; Eva Badura-Skoda, "The Piano Works of Schubert", pp. 97–8. By the late 20th century, however, public and critical opinion had changed, and these sonatas are now considered among the most important of the composer's mature masterpieces.
55 and played Mariza opposite Passmore in Baron Trenck at the Strand Theatre (1911). In 1912 she played the title role in a British tour of the musical comedy The Boy Scout with C. Hayden CoffinThe Boy Scout at the Grand Theatre, Leeds (1912) - Leeds Play Bills and in 1915 was Mrs. Pineapple in the first revival of A Chinese Honeymoon at the Prince of Wales Theatre.London Musicals 1915-1919 - Over the Footlights website In July 1911 Marie George was accompanied by Herbert Sparling in a performance at the Palace Pier in Brighton when: > ‘Marie George gives the audience twenty minutes of sparkling fun, and makes > them regret very much the powers that be which prevent her continuing her > part for double that period. She is delightful in her songs, “That’s a > Cinch,” and “Over again.” She is most ably assisted by Mr. Herbert Sparling, > whose make-up as a pianoforte turner and acting throughout is wonderfully > clever.’Brighton & Hove Society, Brighton, Sussex, Thursday, 12 July 1911, > p.
We know from the history of the Broadwood family that John Broadwood and his fellow Scot Robert Stodart – both apprentices to the harpsichord builder Burkat Shudi (Anglicized) – would spend evenings at Americus's Jermyn Street home and workshop, helping him to perfect his escapement for his pianoforte action based on, but differing in several important factors, from Silbermann's design that was in turn developed from Cristofori's original. Americus's innovation was the addition of an "escapement" to Silbermann's realization of a string striking action design. Unlike Cristofori's design (to which of course Americus had no access) which interposed an intermediate lever between the lever that the key lifts and the striking hammer, Americus placed an upstanding wooden "jack" pivoting from this lever acting directly on a leather clothed notch in the hammer butt. An adjustable screw mounted underneath the hammer flange support rail, known as a "set-off", impacts upon the jack, disengaging it from the hammer which is thus launched into free flight before it strikes its course of strings.
The boy seemed to gain more from an acquaintance with a friendly apprentice joiner who took him to a neighbouring pianoforte warehouse where Schubert could practise on better instruments.Wilberforce (1866), p. 3 He also played viola in the family string quartet, with his brothers Ferdinand and Ignaz on first and second violin and his father on the cello. Schubert wrote his earliest string quartets for this ensemble.Gibbs (2000), p. 26 Young Schubert first came to the attention of Antonio Salieri, then Vienna's leading musical authority, in 1804, when his vocal talent was recognised. In November 1808, he became a pupil at the Stadtkonvikt (Imperial Seminary) through a choir scholarship. At the Stadtkonvikt, he was introduced to the overtures and symphonies of Mozart, the symphonies of Joseph Haydn and his younger brother Michael Haydn, and the overtures and symphonies of Beethoven, a composer for whom he developed a significant admiration.McKay (1996), p. 22Duncan (1905), pp. 5–7 His exposure to these and other works, combined with occasional visits to the opera, laid the foundation for a broader musical education. One important musical influence came from the songs by Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, an important composer of lieder.
The power of the instrument is incisive enough to fill a large room with an audience. The striking position of the hammers, at around one twelfth of the speaking length of the strings, gives this instrument a thinner and much less harmonically rich sound than a modern piano whose striking point is, for optimum power and tonal richness and complexity, around one seventh of the speaking length. (This optimum striking distance was discovered and standardized by the first John Broadwood before the end of the 18th Century indicating that he possessed an exceptional ear for identifying and eliciting the maximum musical appeal from his instruments bearing in mind that he had no knowledge of, or access to the applied physics and scientific measuring techniques that were more recently used to identify ideals of piano design for the modern era.) I [???] judge that the surprising qualities of an early English grand pianoforte would have persuaded the 18th Century prospective keyboard instrument purchaser to buy it in preference to a traditional harpsichord and to use the new music written for it to show off its capabilities to envious house guests.
Sharpe's principal compositions are as follows: Piano solos: Op. 1–10 – various, Songs of The Year twelve two-part songs Op. 16, Twelve two-part songs Songs of Moor and Mountain Op. 18, Twelve two-part songs Songs by the Sea Op. 19, Five pieces Op. 23, Five Character Pieces for piano duet Op. 24, Twelve trios Op. 25, Legende for Violin Op.26, Two Musical Sketches Op. 28, Four duets for 2 violins and piano Op. 29, Idylle for flute and piano Op. 38, Variations for two pianos Op. 46, Three four-part songs with orchestra (also for female voices with piano) Op. 52, Three Part Songs Op.54, Suite for Piano Op. 58, Three symphonic pieces for piano duet Op. 59, Pianoforte School Op. 60, Pantomime Suite Op. 61, Suite for flute and piano Op. 62, Six Two-part Songs Op.63, Suite for violin and piano Op. 65, Six English Fantasias Op. 71, Fantasie-Romance for Piano "We Two" Op.73, Preludes for Piano Op.74. Arrangements of Grieg's Norwegian songs and dances for piano duet, Songs and duets – various, Concert overture for orchestra (still in manuscript), Romance for Two Pianos (still in manuscript), A comic opera in three acts (still in manuscript).
Born in Sussex to Henry and Martha (née Partington) Freemantle on 24 November 1849, a younger brother to Henry Issatte Freemantle (born in, New York, 1847, Shortly after his birth the family returned to Chichester, England). The Family moved to Sheffield in 1855 where his father acquired a music shop. Educated at Bowling’s Milk Street Academy and then at the Grammar School before moving to Lincoln for five years as a pupil to the Lincoln cathedral organist, John Young. On return to Sheffield at age 21, Freemantle worked in St. Andrew’s Church in Sharrow for 20 years as an organist. At 21, Freemantle promotes ‘his intention of giving Instruction on the Organ, Harmonium and Pianoforte. To Choirs, choral societies; and in harmony and composition, either at home or at the residence of Pupils’ although his obituary from The Hunter Archaeological society states that he did ‘very little teaching but gave assistance to his father in the conduct of his business’.‘Obituary of W. T. Freemantle’, in Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society, 4 (1937) Freemantle married his first wife was Margaret ('Maggie', née Massey) in around 1880–82. After her death on 28 December 1920, she was survived by their daughter Annie Pauline Freemantle who was born 8 May 1883.
His first concert in London was arranged by Moscheles at the Beethoven Rooms on Harley street. In 1847, at the age of 24, he settled in England, dividing his time between London and Brighton, where he attained popularity as a pianoforte teacher, performer and promoter of concerts. With remarkable enterprise and spirit, Kuhe showed great enterprise by establishing the annual festival at Brighton which was held by him as a joint conductor from 1870 to 1882, wherein he encouraged native talent by the new works composed at his instance and produced by him, among which, Virginia Gabriel's Evangeline in 1873; Barnett's cantata, The Good Shepherd, in 1876; Clay's Lalla Rookh in 1877 and 1878; Cowen's Deluge, and Cellier's Suite Symphonique in 1878; Walter Macfarren's overture Hero and Leander, Gadsby's Lord of the Isles, Wingham's Concert Overture in A, and Sloper's suite in 1879; Leslie's cantata, First Christmas Morn, Arthur Herbert Jackson's Ballet Suite and W. Macfarren's Symphony in B♭ in 1880: W. Macfarren's Konzertstück in B♭, played by Miss Kuhe, in 1881; Corder's orchestral Nocturne in 1882, in addition to The Woman of Samaria and The Martyr of Antioch, under the respective direction of their composers. He occasionally appeared in London, where he gave an annual concert in 1846.
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