Alberto Jonás (June 8, 1868,
Madrid
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– November 10, 1943,
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) was a Spanish
pianist
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,
composer
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, and piano
pedagogue
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. Although not much is known about his life, as a pianist he was regarded as a virtuoso on the level of
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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,
Moriz Rosenthal
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,
Leopold Godowsky
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,
Josef Hofmann
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, and
Josef Lhévinne
Josef Lhévinne (13 December 18742 December 1944) was a Russian pianist and piano teacher. Lhévinne wrote a short book in 1924 that is considered a classic: ''Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing''. Asked how to say his name, he told ''The Li ...
. He also ranked, during the 1920s and '30s, among the greatest and most sought-after keyboard pedagogues of the time.
Life and early career (Madrid, 1868 – 1886)
Born in
Madrid
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to German parents Julius Jonas, a businessman, and Doris Sachse, his musical talents were recognized at an early age. King
Alfonso XII of Spain
Alfonso XII (Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo; 28 November 185725 November 1885), also known as El Pacificador or the Peacemaker, was King of Spain from 29 December 1874 to his death in 1885 ...
received the young child in a private audience at the
Royal Palace of Madrid
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in 1880 and Jonás was immediately hailed as a prodigy. He initially studied at the
Madrid Royal Conservatory
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History
The Royal Conservatory of Music was founded on July 15, 1830, by royal decree, and was originally located in Mosten ...
with
Manuel Mendizábal (1817–1896) in piano (Mendizábal had been
Isaac Albéniz
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (; 29 May 1860 – 18 May 1909) was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era who also had a significant influence on his conte ...
's piano teacher) and
Ciriaco Olave in organ, graduating at the age of 12, in 1880. For the next six years he travelled and lived in Belgium, England, Germany, and France studying business, in accordance to his parents' desires for a career in finance, and also giving some public performances. At this time, Jonás started also to become a
polyglot
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, mastering fluently the French, Russian, German, English, and Spanish languages.
Brussels, 1886–1890
In 1886, at the age of 18 and against the will of his parents, who kept trying to dissuade him from pursuing a career as a concert pianist, he entered the
Brussels Conservatory
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, where he studied for four years with noted
Franz Liszt
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pupil
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and composition with
François-Auguste Gevaert
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Li ...
. According to the Annuaire du Convervatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles, he won the coveted First Prize (Premier Prix) of the Brussels Conservatory, in the Piano Section, in 1888, playing
Ignaz Moscheles
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' G Minor Piano Concerto, a Prelude and Fugue by
Johann Sebastian Bach
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. He later won an Honorable Mention in Harmony in the year 1890, the final year of his graduation.
St. Petersburg, Germany, Austria, 1890–1893
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Upon graduating from Brussels in 1890, he entered the first international
Anton Rubinstein Competition
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, which was being held at the
St. Petersburg Conservatory
The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н. А. Римского-Корсакова) (formerly known as th ...
. Even though he did not win the coveted First Prize in piano (it went to
Nikolay Dubasov), he nevertheless made an extraordinary impression on
Anton Rubinstein
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, who immediately invited him to be one the handful of pianists who had the privilege of being his students. He then worked with Rubinstein in St. Petersburg for the next three years. During his sojourn there, he became a recognized pianist and teacher, and soon befriended fellow Rubinstein students
Josef Hofmann
Josef Casimir Hofmann (originally Józef Kazimierz Hofmann; January 20, 1876February 16, 1957) was a Polish-American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor.
Biography
Josef Hofmann was born in Podgórze (a district of Kraków), in Aus ...
,
Felix Blumenfeld
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He was born ...
, and
Teresa Carreño
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, who all held his playing in high esteem. During this period he also met
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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, who acted as a mentor and gave him some lessons (in particular on his own Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 17, which Jonás would later often perform) and encouraged him to continue his studies in music. In 1891 he made his debut in Berlin as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic under
Hans von Bülow
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, receiving rave reviews.
United States 1893–1904
In 1893 he moved to New York, soon making a debut with the
Symphony Society of New York
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in
Carnegie Hall
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playing the Paderewski Concerto conducted by
Walter Damrosch
Walter Johannes Damrosch (January 30, 1862December 22, 1950) was a German-born American conductor and composer. He was the director of the New York Symphony Orchestra and conducted the world premiere performances of various works, including Ge ...
. In 1894, he was named professor at the Music School of the
University of Michigan
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in Ann Arbor, later becoming President and Director of the Michigan Conservatory of Music in Detroit, a post he held until 1904. In 1897 he debuted with the
Boston Symphony Orchestra
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under
Emil Paur
Emil Paur (July 19, 1855 – June 7, 1932) was an Austrian orchestra conductor.
Biography
Paur was born in Czernowitz, Austria, now Chernivtsi, Ukraine, to a Romanian family, and trained in Vienna before working as a conductor in Kassel, ...
, again with the Paderewski concerto. He also concertized in Canada, Mexico and Cuba at this time. On December 20, 1899, he married German pianist Elsa von Grave in Ann Arbor, who although born in Cologne had been a pupil of
Hans von Bülow
Freiherr Hans Guido von Bülow (8 January 1830 – 12 February 1894) was a German conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer of the Romantic era. As one of the most distinguished conductors of the 19th century, his activity was critical for es ...
at the Munich Conservatory and was the daughter of the German Baroness Rosalie von Grave and the German Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Mortimer, Baron von Grave (1824–1896), a captain in the Prussian army. Elsa von Grave had emigrated to the US in 1894, one year after Jonás, and they most likely met in Ann Arbor on that same year.
Berlin 1904–1914
In 1904 Jonás decided he would return to Europe, settling in Berlin, where he soon became one of the most respected piano teachers. There he soon became a professor at the
Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory The Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory (german: Klindworth-Scharwenka-Konservatorium) was a music institute in Berlin, established in 1893, which for decades (until 1960) was one of the most internationally renowned schools of music. It was formed f ...
and befriended
Leopold Godowsky
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,
Karl Klindworth
Karl Klindworth (25 September 183027 July 1916) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, violinist and music publisher. He was one of Franz Liszt's pupils and later one of his closest disciples and friends, being also on friendly terms ...
,
James Kwast
James Kwast (23 November 185231 October 1927) was a Dutch-German pianist and renowned teacher of many other notable pianists. He was also a minor composer and editor.
Biography
Jacob James Kwast was born in Nijkerk, Netherlands, in 1852. After ...
and
Moritz Moszkowski
Moritz Moszkowski (23 August 18544 March 1925) was a German Confederation, German composer, pianist, and teacher of History of Jews in Poland, Polish-Jewish descent. , who were also teachers and performers there. World War I caused him to return to New York, where he finally settled. It is unclear whether Alberto Jonás divorced Elsa von Grave or if she died in the war. By 1914, he was no longer in a marriage to her and began a relationship with an American pianist of German descent, Henrietta Gremmel (1888-1964). She was from Muscatine, Iowa, the daughter of a German immigrant from Hannover who had established a tobacco business in Muscatine. She was 20 years younger than Alberto Jonas.
United States 1914–1943
On October 17, 1914, he returned from war-torn Europe to New York, in the company of Gremmel, whom he would later marry. From 1914 until his death in 1943, he lived in a New York apartment on the Upper West Side (19
West 85th Street), his apartment becoming a mecca for talented students and pianists from all over the world. Soon, Jonás also became professor at the
Combs College of Music
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The faculty included famous musicians such ...
in Philadelphia, where he kept a small apartment as well, and the
Von Ende School of Music in New York. Alberto Jonas died on November 10, 1943, in Philadelphia.
''Master School of Modern Piano Playing and Virtuosity''
It is during his period in New York when Jonás had the unprecedented idea of starting a correspondence with all of the great musicians and pianists he had met throughout his life as a wandering musician, asking them personally to collaborate with their own ideas on pianism towards the publication of a treatise on piano playing that would include the main currents in modern virtuosity. The pianists even agreed to write their own technical exercises specifically for Jonás's book, as well as sharing their own ideas on technique, pedalling, fingering, practicing methods, phrasing, memorizing, etc., and also taking exclusive photographs of themselves and their hands playing in order to illustrate some points.
In the early 1920s he started putting together all the material he had amassed from the correspondence and began writing what he would later title ''Master School of Modern Piano Playing and Virtuosity'', in seven volumes. It took him seven years to complete the vast undertaking (1922–1929), which in its final formed featured the unique distinction of having the collaboration of practically all the greatest living piano virtuosi. The final contributors were
Arthur Friedheim
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,
Ignaz Friedman
Ignaz Friedman (also spelled ''Ignace'' or ''Ignacy''; full name ''Solomon (Salomon) Isaac Freudman(n)'', yi, שְׁלֹמֹה יִצְחָק פֿרײדמאַן; February 13, 1882January 26, 1948) was a Polish pianist and composer. Critics (e.g ...
,
Vasily Safonov
Vasily Ilyich Safonov (russian: Васи́лий Ильи́ч Сафо́нов, link=no, ; 6 February 185227 February 1918), also known as Wassily Safonoff, was a Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer.
Biography
Vasily Safonov, or S ...
,
Ferruccio Busoni
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,
Katharine Goodson
Katharine Goodson (18 June 1872 – 14 April 1958) was an English pianist.
Born in Watford, Goodson studied the piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London; she also worked with Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna. Her London debut took place on ...
,
Leopold Godowsky
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,
Alfred Cortot
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,
Rudolph Ganz
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Career Early career as a pianist and conductor
Born in Zurich, Ganz studied cello with Friedrich Hegar and piano wi ...
,
Wilhelm Backhaus
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,
Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler,
Ernst von Dohnányi
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Biography
Dohnányi was born in Pozsony ...
,
Ossip Gabrilowitsch
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,
Josef Lhévinne
Josef Lhévinne (13 December 18742 December 1944) was a Russian pianist and piano teacher. Lhévinne wrote a short book in 1924 that is considered a classic: ''Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing''. Asked how to say his name, he told ''The Li ...
,
Isidor Philipp
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Biography
Isidor Philipp ...
,
Moriz Rosenthal
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,
Emil von Sauer
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,
Leopold Schmidt, and
Zygmunt Stojowski
Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski (May 4, 1870November 5, 1946) was a Polish pianist and composer.
Life
He was born on May 4, 1870 near the city of Kielce. Stojowski began his musical training with his mother, and with Polish compo ...
, and included excerpts from more than one thousand examples drawn from the entire piano literature in order to illustrate specific points.
In breadth of scope, originality, and clearness of execution, the book is unprecedented.
It was finally published between 1922 and 1929 by
Carl Fischer Music
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in New York in seven volumes:
Book I: Finger Exercises
Book II: Scales
Book III: Arpeggios
Book IV: Complete School of Double Notes
Book V: Octaves, Staccato, and Chords
Book VI: The Artistic Employment of the Piano Pedals
Book VII: Exercises for Fingers, Wrists, and Arms Away From the Piano, Phrasing, Embellishments in Music
Lhévinne called it ''the greatest and most valuable work on the subject'', Busoni considered it ''the most monumental work ever written on piano playing'', and Rosenthal called it a ''Master-Work'' (''meisterarbeit''). It was also admired by
Sergei Rachmaninoff
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, who mentioned it in some of his letters.
Reception
Due to the impact of the Great Depression and World War II on the publishing industry in America, the ''Master School'' was never reprinted and quickly went out of print. The author and his ideas became somewhat forgotten after his death, but there are still pianists and teachers who use volumes of the "Master School" in their pedagogy. Even though he is the most important Spanish writer on pianism, he is practically unknown in his native country (where the ''Master School'' has never been published). However, the first two volumes were reissued starting in 2011, with the goal of eventually reprinting the entire series: https://www.amazon.com/Master-School-Virtuoso-Piano-Playing/dp/0486483339
Some of Alberto Jonás's piano students include
Pepito Arriola
José "Pepito" Rodríguez Carballeira (December 14, 1896 – October 24, 1954) was a Spanish child prodigy pianist and eventual master violinist.
Origins
Pepito was born to a liberal family of Ferrol, his mother was Josefa Rodríguez Carballei ...
,
Ellen Ballon
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The daughter of Jewish Lithuanian immigrants, she was born in Montreal, Quebec. A child prodigy, she gave her first concert at the age of five and began studying m ...
,
Anis Fuleihan
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A native of Kyrenia, Fuleihan belonged to a Christian Lebanese family; he attended the English School in that town before coming to the ...
,
Eugenia Buxton,
Vincent Persichetti
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,
Eloise Wood, Daniel Jones,
Lewis L. Richards,
David Earl Moyer, Leonard Heaton,
Alfred Lucien Calzi,
Elizabeth Zug,
Reah Sadowsky, and
Louis Loth.
References
# Saleski, Gdal (1927
Famous Musicians of a Wandering Race pp. 328–330
# Great Pianists on Piano Playing. Edited by
James Francis Cooke
James Francis Cooke (November 14, 1875, Bay City, Michigan – March 3, 1960, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania) spent his life involved with music.''New York Times'' obituary, March 5, 1960, ''Dr. James Cook, 84, Ex-Editor of Etude'' He was a pianist, ...
.
# Brower, Harriete (2003) ''Piano Mastery. The Harriete Brower Interviews''. Edited by Jeffrey Johnson, Dover, New York.
# Busoni: Selected Letters. Edited by
Antony Beaumont
Antony Beaumont (born 27 January 1949, in London)Jacket notes for Beaumont (1987). is an English and German musicologist, writer, conductor and violinist.Lewis, Uncle Dave, ''Allmusic'', reproduced aAnswers.com Accessed on 3 February 2009. As a ...
, Butler & Tanner, London, 1987, p. 195
# Dubal, David: The Art of the Piano
# Dubal, David: Reflections from the Keyboard: the world of the concert pianist.
# Lee-ling Chang, Anita: The Russian school of advanced piano technique: its history and development from the 19th to 20th century. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Texas, Austin, 1996.
# Alba González, Amanda Judith (2007
Escuela magistral de la virtuosidad pianística moderna de Alberto Jonás y sus ejercicios técnicos originales convergencia de la ejecución pianística y el estudio teórico de la técnica Doctoral dissertation, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
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