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III International Chopin Piano Competition
The III International Chopin Piano Competition ( pl, III Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina) was held from 21 February to 13 March 1937 in Warsaw. It was the last competition before the outbreak of World War II, and the competition would not be held again until 1949. 80 pianists from 22 countries took part in the competition, including two participants from faraway Japan. Contestants could choose between pianos manufactured by Bechstein, Bösendorfer, Pleyel and Steinway. Soviet pianist Yakov Zak was awarded the first prize. Awards Out of 80 pianists in the elimination stage, 21 were admitted to the final, where they performed two consecutive movements of one of Chopin's two piano concertos with the Warsaw Philharmonic. The two female Japanese pianists and received great acclaim among critics and the public. When news broke that Hara, who reached the final, was not among the prize-winners and was merely awarded an honorable mention, a commotion b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Philharmonic In Warsaw
The National Philharmonic in Warsaw (Polish: ''Filharmonia Narodowa w Warszawie'') is a Polish cultural institution, located at 5 Jasna Street in Warsaw. The building was built between 1900 and 1901, under the direction of Karol Kozłowski, to be reconstructed in 1955 by Eugeniusz Szparkowski. The director of the institution is Wojciech Nowak. It is the main venue of the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 1955, the institution hosts the International Chopin Piano Competition. The building hosts the annual festival Warsaw Autumn Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officially .... Gallery File:Warsaw Philharmonic - southern facade.jpg, Warsaw Philharmonic, 1901 File:Filharmonia Warszawska około 1901.PNG, Warsaw Philharmonic, c.1901 File:Warsaw Philharmonic - interi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witold Małcużyński
Witold Małcużyński (August 10, 1914July 17, 1977) was a distinguished Polish pianist who specialized in the works of Frédéric Chopin. His playing was marked by great passion and poetry. Biography Małcużyński was born in 1914. He was the older brother of Karol Małcużyński, a Polish politician and journalist. He began playing piano at the age of 5, starting regular lessons four years later. Originally, he intended to study law but his innate love of music overcame his initial decision and he switched to music and enrolled at the Warsaw Conservatory from which he graduated with high honours, studying under Józef Turczyński. In 1936, he received an invitation to study under Marguerite Long and Isidor Philipp in Paris. He won the third prize at the III International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1937. At the same time, he met his future wife, the French pianist Colette Gaveau. When World War II began, he was in France. There, he joined the artistic-propaganda sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Frey (composer)
Emil Frey (8 April 188920 May 1946) was a Swiss composer, pianist and teacher. Biography He was born in Baden, near Zurich, Switzerland in 1889. He studied with Otto Barblan, Willy Rehberg and Joseph Lauber at the Geneva Conservatory 1902–05,Grove's Dictionary, 5th ed, 1954, Vol. III, p. 496 then at the Conservatoire de Paris with Louis Diémer (piano) and Gabriel Fauré and Charles-Marie Widor (composition). In 1906 he won the Premier prix de piano. He became a court pianist in Bucharest after 1907. In 1908 he and Xaver Scharwenka gave a private performance on two pianos of Scharwenka's Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor to its dedicatee Queen Elisabeth of Romania. The next day it was performed publicly with orchestra; the composer conducted and Frey was the soloist. George Enescu dedicated his Piano Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 24/1 to Emil Frey. In 1910 Frey entered the composition section of the Anton Rubinstein Competition in St Petersburg, and won with his Pia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Drzewiecki
Zbigniew Drzewiecki (; 8 April 189011 April 1971) was a Polish pianist who was for most of his life a teacher of pianists. He was especially associated with the interpretation of Frédéric Chopin's works. His pupils include several famous pianists of the 20th century, and his influence was therefore very pervasive. Drzewiecki was born in Warsaw. He commenced study under his father, and then, at Warsaw, under Oberfeldt and Pilecki. 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. After the Second World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Dąbrowski
Marian Dąbrowski (27 September 1878 – 27 September 1958) was a Polish journalist, entrepreneur and publisher, the biggest and the most influential press magnate of the Second Polish Republic. Life and career Dąbrowski was born on 27 September 1878 in Mielec. Between 1903 and 1907, he studied Polish philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Then he took up the job of a teacher, but quit and began working as a secretary of the ''Ilustracja Polska'' magazine. In 1908 he became a journalist in the ''Glos Narodu'' magazine, two years later he founded his own newspaper, Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny (''Illustrated Daily Courier''). The first issue of the ''IKC'' was printed on 18 December 1910; after a few years its circulation grew to 180,000. In 1918, after World War I, Dabrowski started creating his own press empire, opening offices in several locations of the interbellum Poland. In 1927 he purchased the ''Nowa Reforma'' magazine and moved his business to a lavish buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Backhaus
Wilhelm Backhaus ('Bachaus' on some record labels) (26 March 1884 – 5 July 1969) was a German pianist and pedagogue. He was particularly well known for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. He was also much admired as a chamber musician. Musical biography Born in Leipzig, Backhaus was the son of a well-known architect. He began learning piano at the age of four with his mother, an amateur pianist. The boy's talent was soon recognized by Arthur Nikisch, at whose recommendation Backhaus studied under Alois Reckendorf at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1891 and 1899, then took private piano lessons with Eugen d'Albert in Frankfurt. As a boy of 9 or 10 he was taken to hear both of the Brahms piano concertos performed by d'Albert — and conducted by Brahms himself. He made his first concert tour at the age of sixteen. In 1900 he went to England and in 1901 played for the first time in Manchester at the Gentleman's Concerts. In 1902 he performe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guido Agosti
Guido Agosti (11 August 19012 June 1989) was an Italian pianist and piano teacher. Agosti was born in Forlì in 1901. He studied piano with Ferruccio Busoni, Bruno Mugellini and Filippo Ivaldi, earning his diploma at age 13. He studied counterpoint under Benvenuti and literature at Bologna University. He commenced his professional career as a pianist in 1921. Although he never entirely abandoned concert-giving, nerves made it difficult for him to appear on stage, and he concentrated on teaching. He taught piano at the Venice Conservatoire and at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome. In 1947 he was appointed Professor of piano at the Accademia Chigiana (Siena). He also taught at Weimar and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. His notable students include Maria Tipo, Yonty Solomon, Bedana Chertkow, Leslie Howard, Barbara Lister-Sink, Martin Jones, Donna Amato, Vladimir Krpan, Hamish Milne, Dag Achatz, Sergio Calligaris, Raymond Lewenthal, Kun-Woo Paik, Paul Stewart, Daniel Poll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lélia Gousseau
Lélia Gousseau (11 February 1909 – 14 February 1997) was a 20th-century French classical pianist. Biography Born in Paris, the daughter of pianist Fanny d'Almeida (disciple of Elie Delaborde) and organist William Gousseau (1870-1939), maître de chapelle at Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet (1893-1938), Gousseau entered at a young age in the Conservatoire de Paris where she won a first prize in piano in the class of Lazare-Lévy (1925) - who regarded her as one of her best disciples along with her contemporary Monique Haas - as well as a first prize in Music History in Maurice Emmanuel's class (1926) Récipient of the Claire Pagès Prize (1928), laureate of the III International Chopin Piano Competition of Warsaw (1937), Gousseau also received the Albert Roussel Prize (1939), a composer of whom she was the privileged performer (even today, her recordings of the Concerto, the Suite Op. 14, the three Pieces Op. 49 etc. are authoritative) Soloist with major national and int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Maillard-Verger
Pierre Maillard-Verger (5 December 1910 – 30 April 1968) was a French classical pianist and composer. Born in Paris, Maillard-Verger was a student in Paul Dukas's composition class at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1939, he won the 1st Grand Prix de Rome for composition with his cantata ''La farce du Mari fondu''. Maillard-Verger died at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris in 1968. Works * 1939: Cantate du prix de Rome: ''La farce du Mari fondu'' * Music accompanying the reading by Jean Deschamps of ''La Chanson de Roland'' (trio of baritones and lute), and that of Antigone by Sophocles * Caprice, Etude en quartes, Petite Suite (7 easy pieces: ''Rêverie, Jeux, Polka, Echo, Valse, Plainte, Tarentelle'') for piano * Christmas for choir * Film scores Discography as interpreter * Mélodies by Fauré, with Camille Maurane * Mélodies by Fauré, with Pierre Mollet * Mélodies by Mozart, Schumann, Moussorgski, with Estel Sussman * Works of the Renaissance with the vocal sextet of France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Ekier
Jan Stanisław Ekier (29 August 1913 – 15 August 2014) was a Polish pianist and composer known for his authoritative edition of Chopin's music for the Chopin National Edition. Biography Ekier was born in Kraków, Poland. As a youth, he studied piano with Olga Stolfowa, and later composition with Bernardino Rizzi at the Władysław Żeleński School of Music. He continued formal music studies at the Warsaw Conservatory, where his teachers included Zbigniew Drzewiecki (piano) and Kazimierz Sikorski (composition). He was awarded the III International Chopin Piano Competition's 8th prize in 1937. He was later an organ student with Bronisław Rutkowski. In 1959, he started the project of a new critical edition of Chopin's works that later became the Chopin National Edition. From 1967 to 2010, the entirety of Chopin's known works were published in 37 volumes, accompanied by source and performance commentaries. In 2004, he received a special award from the Minister of Culture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique De La Bruchollerie
Monique de La Bruchollerie (20 April 191515 December 1972) was a French classical concert pianist. Career La Bruchollerie was born in Paris. She came from a family of musicians, both François-Adrien Boieldieu and André Messager being among her ancestors. At the age of 7 she entered the class of Isidor Philipp (a friend of her parents) at the Paris Conservatoire, which she left in 1928 with a first prize. A concert she gave in 1932 under the baton of Charles Münch brought her breakthrough as a pianist. Between 1936 and 1938 she went on to take part in more piano competitions, above all in the III International Chopin Piano Competition of 1937 in Warsaw and the 1939 Brussels Competition. After the Second World War she developed an international career, above all in the USA and in Poland, and she worked with conductors such as Sergiu Celibidache, Eugen Jochum, Herbert von Karajan, Ernest Ansermet and Jan Krenz. In 1952, La Bruchollerie performed for the Peabody Mason Concerts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
