Dr. Sanna Pederson, University of Oklahoma
Highlights There were 114 concerts this month. 38 were solo vocal, 25 solo piano, 10 chamber and 8 solo violin. Noteworthy events besides the two concerts by Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler on the same day and the terrible ship wreck that involved the German Opera Company, included again a phenomenal number of historic personalities … Read more
The School of LisztIn the month of January in 1907, one could have attended concerts of EIGHT pianists who had been students of Liszt: [su_label type=”success”]W-M[/su_label] = recorded rolls for the Welte-Mignon player piano Eugen d’Albert (1864-1932)[su_label type=”success”]W-M[/su_label] Richard Burmeister (1860-1944) [su_label type=”success”]W-M[/su_label] Frederic Lamond (1868-1948) [su_label type=”success”]W-M[/su_label] José Vianna da Motta (1868-1948) [su_label type=”success”]W-M[/su_label] Alfred Reisenauer (1863-1907) [su_label … Read more
Of the 117 different pianists I’ve counted who gave concerts in Berlin in 1907, there are of course many more obscure names than stars. A large group of them can be accounted for as teachers or students at one of the local Berlin conservatories. Some of the other names are of virtuosos who were famous … Read more
The pianist Harold Bauer (1873-1951) played a recital in Berlin on Oct. 31, 1907. A little more than a year later, on 18 December 1908, he gave the world premiere performance of Debussy’s piano suite Children’s Corner in Paris. The reviewer in the Signale lamented the small audience and was generally very appreciative of Bauer’s program of Schumann, … Read more
Robert Hausmann’s Piano Trio with his Hochschule colleagues Heinrich Barth (piano) and Heinrich de Ahna (violin) began giving concerts in 1875 and started a subscription series in 1878. They lasted for thirty years, with only one change in personnel, when Emanuel Wirth took over after de Ahna died in 1892. In contrast to the Joachim Quartet … Read more
Besides his performances with his colleagues de Ahna and Hausmann in a Piano Trio, Heinrich Barth (12.07.1847-23.12.1922) had a solo career, although he never became as famous as his students Wilhelm Kempff, Heinrich Neuhaus, or Arthur Rubinstein. Barth’s training included study with Liszt’s two best students, Hans von Bülow and Carl Tausig. He began at … Read more