Eugen (originally Eugène) Francis Charles d'Albert (10 April 1864 – 3 March 1932) was a Scottish-born pianist and composer.
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Educated in Britain, d'Albert showed early musical talent and, at the age of seventeen, he won a scholarship to study in Austria. Feeling a kinship with German culture and music, he soon emigrated to Germany, where he studied with ]Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...
and began a career as a concert pianist. D'Albert repudiated his early training and upbringing in Scotland and considered himself German.
While pursuing his career as a pianist, d'Albert focused increasingly on composing, producing 21 operas and a considerable output of piano, vocal, chamber and orchestral works. His most successful opera was '' Tiefland'', which premiered in Prague in 1903. His successful orchestral works included his cello concerto (1899), a symphony, two string quartets and two piano concertos. In 1907 d'Albert became the director of the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where he exerted a wide influence on musical education in Germany. He edited critical editions of the scores of Beethoven and Bach, transcribed Bach's organ works for the piano and wrote cadenzas for Beethoven's piano concertos. He also held the post of Kapellmeister
(, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term ha ...
to the Court of Weimar.
D'Albert was married six times, including to the pianist-singer Teresa Carreño
María Teresa Gertrudis de Jesús Carreño García (December 22, 1853June 12, 1917) was a Venezuelan pianist, soprano, composer, and conductor. Over the course of her 54-year concert career, she became an internationally renowned virtuoso pia ...
, and was successively a British, German and Swiss citizen.
Biography
Early life and education
D'Albert was born at 4 Crescent Place, Glasgow
Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...
, Scotland, to an English mother, Annie Rowell, and a German-born father of French and Italian descent, Charles Louis Napoléon d'Albert (1809–1886), whose ancestors included the composers Giuseppe Matteo Alberti and Domenico Alberti
Domenico Alberti (c. 1710 – 14 October 1746 (according to other sources: 1740)) was an Italian singer, harpsichordist, and composer.
Alberti was born in Venice and studied music with Antonio Lotti. He wrote operas, songs, and sonatas for ...
.[Williamson, John]
"Albert, Eugen d'"
Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online, accessed 13 October 2008 D'Albert's father was a pianist, arranger and a prolific composer of salon music who had been ballet-master at the King's Theatre and at Covent Garden
Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist si ...
. D'Albert was born when his father was 55 years old. ''The Musical Times'' wrote in 1904 that "This, and other circumstances, accounted for a certain loneliness in the boy's home-life and the years of his childhood. He was misunderstood, and 'cribbed, cabined, and confined' to such an extent as to largely prejudice him against the country which gave him birth".["Eugene D'Albert: A Biographical Sketch"]
''The Musical Times
''The Musical Times'' is an academic journal of classical music edited and produced in the United Kingdom and currently the oldest such journal still being published in the country.
It was originally created by Joseph Mainzer in 1842 as ''Mainze ...
'', vol. 45, issue 741, 1 November 1904, pp. 697–700, accessed 26 May 2022
D'Albert was brought up in Glasgow and taught music by his father until he won a scholarship to the new National Training School for Music (forerunner of the Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is a music school, conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the Undergraduate education, undergraduate to the Doctorate, doctoral level in a ...
) in London, which he entered in 1876 at the age of 12.[ D'Albert studied at the National Training School with Ernst Pauer, ]Ebenezer Prout
Ebenezer Prout (1 March 1835 – 5 December 1909) was an English musical theorist, writer, music teacher and composer, whose instruction, afterwards embodied in a series of standard works still used today, underpinned the work of many British cl ...
, John Stainer
Sir John Stainer (6 June 1840 – 31 March 1901) was an English composer and organist whose music, though seldom performed today (with the exception of ''The Crucifixion'', still heard at Passiontide in some churches of the Anglican Communi ...
and Arthur Sullivan
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for 14 comic opera, operatic Gilbert and Sullivan, collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including ''H.M.S. Pinaf ...
. By the age of 14, he was winning public praise from ''The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ...
'' as "a bravura player of no mean order" in a concert in October 1878. He played Schumann's Piano Concerto at the Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace may refer to:
Places Canada
* Crystal Palace Complex (Dieppe), a former amusement park now a shopping complex in Dieppe, New Brunswick
* Crystal Palace Barracks, London, Ontario
* Crystal Palace (Montreal), an exhibition building ...
in 1880, receiving more encouragement from ''The Times'': "A finer rendering of the work has seldom been heard." Also in 1880, d'Albert arranged the piano reduction for the vocal score of Sullivan's sacred music drama ''The Martyr of Antioch
''The Martyr of Antioch'' is a choral work described as a "Sacred Musical Drama" by the English composer Arthur Sullivan. It was first performed on 15 October 1880 at the triennial Leeds Music Festival, having been composed specifically for that ...
'', to accompany the chorus in rehearsal. He is also credited with writing, under Sullivan's direction, the overture to Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan was a Victorian era, Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), who jointly created fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which ...
's 1881 opera, ''Patience
(or forbearance) is the ability to endure difficult circumstances. Patience may involve perseverance in the face of delay; tolerance of provocation without responding in disrespect/anger; or forbearance when under strain, especially when faced ...
''.
For many years d'Albert dismissed his training and work during this period as worthless. ''The Times'' wrote that he "was born and educated in England, and won his earliest successes in England, although, in a freak of boyish impetuosity, he repudiated some years ago all connexion with this country, where, according to his own account, he was born by mere accident and where he learnt nothing." In later years, however, he modified his views: "The former prejudice which I had against England, which several incidents aroused, has completely vanished since many years."[
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Career
In 1881 Hans Richter invited d'Albert to play his first piano concerto, which was "received with enthusiasm".[ This seems to have been d'Albert's lost concerto in A major, not the work published three years later as his Piano Concerto No. 1 in B minor, Op. 2. In the same year d'Albert won the ]Mendelssohn Scholarship
The Mendelssohn Scholarship (german: Mendelssohn-Stipendium) refers to two scholarships awarded in Germany and in the United Kingdom. Both commemorate the composer Felix Mendelssohn, and are awarded to promising young musicians to enable them to co ...
, enabling him to study in Vienna, where he met Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...
, Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...
and other important musicians who influenced his style.[Kennedy, Michael (ed.]
" Albert, Eugen d'"
''The Oxford Dictionary of Music'', 2nd ed., Oxford Music Online, accessed 13 October 2008 D'Albert, retaining his early enthusiasm for German culture and music ("hearing ''Tristan und Isolde
''Tristan und Isolde'' (''Tristan and Isolde''), WWV 90, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan and Iseult by Gottfried von Strassburg. It was compose ...
'' had a greater influence on him than the education he received from his father or ... at the National Training School for Music")[ changed his first name from Eugène to Eugen and emigrated to Germany, where he became a pupil of the elderly Liszt in ]Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...
.[ Macdonald, Hugh]
"D'Albert, Eugen Francis Charles (1864–1932)"
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 11 October 2008
In Germany and Austria d'Albert built a career as a pianist. Liszt called him "the second Tausig", and d'Albert can be heard in an early recording of Liszt works. He played his own piano concerto with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
The Vienna Philharmonic (VPO; german: Wiener Philharmoniker, links=no) is an orchestra that was founded in 1842 and is considered to be one of the finest in the world.
The Vienna Philharmonic is based at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria. Its ...
in 1882, the youngest pianist who had appeared with the orchestra.[ D'Albert toured extensively, including in the United States from 1904 to 1905. His virtuoso technique was compared to that of ]Busoni
Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation led him to work closely with many of the leading musicians, artists and literary f ...
. He was praised for his playing of Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...
's sonatas and J. S. Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard wo ...
's preludes and fugues, some of which d'Albert transcribed for piano.[ "As an exponent of Beethoven, Eugen d'Albert has few, if any, equals."][ Gradually, d'Albert's work as a composer occupied his time more and more, and he reduced his concert playing.][ He was the recipient of a number of dedications, most notably of ]Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wag ...
's '' Burleske in D minor'', which he premiered in 1890.[ In 1907 he became the director of the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where, according to '']The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ...
'', he exerted a wide influence on musical education in Germany.[ He also held the post of ]Kapellmeister
(, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term ha ...
to the Court of Weimar.[
D'Albert was a prolific composer. His output includes a large volume of successful piano and chamber music and ]lieder
In Western classical music tradition, (, plural ; , plural , ) is a term for setting poetry to classical music to create a piece of polyphonic music. The term is used for any kind of song in contemporary German, but among English and French sp ...
. He also composed twenty-one operas, in a wide variety of styles, which premiered mostly in Germany. His first, ''Der Rubin'' (1893) was an oriental fantasy; '' Die Abreise'' (1898), which established him as an opera composer in Germany, was a one-act domestic comedy; ''Kain'' (1900) was a setting of the biblical story; and one of his last operas, '' Der Golem'', was on a traditional Jewish theme.[''The Times'' obituary, 4 March 1932, p. 19] His most successful opera was his seventh, '' Tiefland'', which premiered in Prague in 1903. When Thomas Beecham
Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, Order of the Companions of Honour, CH (29 April 18798 March 1961) was an English conductor and impresario best known for his association with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic and the Roya ...
introduced the opera to London, ''The Times'' observed, "the scoring owes more than a little to the discipline of Sullivan; there is also a curiously English fragrance". ''Tiefland'' played in opera houses throughout the world and has retained a place in the standard German and Austrian repertoire, with a production at the Deutsche Oper Berlin
The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a German opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The resident building is the country's second largest opera house (after Munich's) and also home to the Berlin State Ballet.
Since 2004, the De ...
, in November 2007. According to biographer Hugh Macdonald, it "provides a link between Italian verismo and German expressionist opera, although the orchestral textures recall a more Wagnerian language."[ Another stage success was a comic opera called '' Flauto solo'' in 1905. D'Albert's most successful orchestral works included his cello concerto (1899), a symphony, two string quartets and two piano concertos. "Though not a composer of profound originality ... he had an unfailing sense of dramatic appropriateness and all the resources of a symphonic technique to give it expression and was thus able to achieve success in so many styles".][
]
Personal life and death
D'Albert's friends included Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wag ...
, Hans Pfitzner
Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera ''Palestrina'' (1917), loosely based on the life of the s ...
, Engelbert Humperdinck, Ignatz Waghalter
Ignatz Waghalter (15 March 1881 – 7 April 1949) was a Polish-German composer and conductor.
Early life
Waghalter was born into a poor but musically accomplished Jewish family in Warsaw. His eldest brother, Henryk Waghalter (1869-1961), became ...
and Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (; 15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well. He recei ...
, the dramatist. He was married six times and had eight children. His first wife was Louise Salingré. His second, from 1892 to 1895, was the Venezuelan pianist, singer and composer Teresa Carreño
María Teresa Gertrudis de Jesús Carreño García (December 22, 1853June 12, 1917) was a Venezuelan pianist, soprano, composer, and conductor. Over the course of her 54-year concert career, she became an internationally renowned virtuoso pia ...
, who had married several times and was considerably older than d'Albert. D'Albert and Carreño were the subject of a famous joke: "Come quick! Your children and my children are quarrelling again with our children!" The line, however, has also been attributed to others. His later wives were soprano Hermine Finck
Hermine Finck (1 January 187231 October 1932) was a German opera singer. She created the role of The Witch in the world premiere of Humperdinck's ''Hansel and Gretel'' and appeared in numerous leading soprano roles in the opera houses of Germany ...
, who originated the role of the witch in Humperdinck's ''Hansel and Gretel
"Hansel and Gretel" (; german: Hänsel und Gretel ) is a German fairy tale collected by the German Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' (KHM 15). It is also known as Little Step Brother and Little Step Sister.
Hansel ...
''; actress Ida Fulda; Friederike ("Fritzi") Jauner; and Hilde Fels. His last companion was a mistress, Virginia Zanetti.[
In 1914 d'Albert moved to Zurich and became a Swiss citizen. He died in 1932 at the age of 67 in ]Riga
Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...
, Latvia, where he had travelled for a divorce from his sixth wife. In the weeks preceding his death, d'Albert was the subject of attacks by the press in Riga concerning his personal life. D'Albert was buried in the cemetery overlooking Lake Lugano
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in Morcote
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History
Morcote is first mentioned historically in 926 as ''Murcau'', which comes from the ...
, Switzerland.
Works
Operas
:See List of operas by Eugen d'Albert
Orchestral works
* Piano Concerto in G minor (1874)
* Piano Concerto in A major (1881, lost)
* Piano Concerto No. 1 in B minor, Op. 2 (1884)
* Symphony in F major, Op. 4 (1886)
* ''Esther'', Op. 8 (1888)
* Piano Concerto No. 2 in E major, Op. 12 (1893)
* Cello Concerto in C major, Op. 20 (1899)
* ''Aschenputtel''. Suite, Op. 33 (1924)
* Symphonic Prelude to ''Tiefland'', Op. 34 (1924)
Keyboard
* Suite in D minor for piano, Op. 1 (1883
Musical score
* Eight Piano pieces, Op. 5
* Waltzes for piano, four hands, Op.
Musical score
* Piano sonata in F-sharp minor, Op. 10 (1893)
* Klavierstücke, Op. 16
Chamber works
* String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 7 (1887)
* String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 11 (1893)
Vocal music
* ''Der Mensch und das Leben'', Op. 14 (1893)
* ''Seejungfräulein'', Op. 15 (1897)
* ''Wie wir die Natur erleben'', Op. 24 (1903)
* ''Mittelalterliche Venushymne'', Op. 26 (1904)
* ''An den Genius von Deutschland'', Op. 30 (1904)
* d'Albert also wrote total of 58 lieder for voice and piano, published in 10 volumes
Recordings
As pianist, d'Albert did not record extensively, although his recordings represent a wide range of music. They include his own Scherzo, Op. 16; Capriolen, Op. 32; Suite, Op. 1, Gavotte and Minuet; and piano arrangements from his opera ''Die Toten Augen''. He made several Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...
recordings, including the Piano Sonatas Nos. 18 and 21 ( "Waldstein"), and the "Spring" Sonata for violin and piano (with Andreas Weißgerber). A selection of Chopin pieces were recorded in the 1910s and 1920s, with études, polonaises and waltzes
The waltz ( ), meaning "to roll or revolve") is a ballroom and folk dance, normally in triple ( time), performed primarily in closed position.
History
There are many references to a sliding or gliding dance that would evolve into the wal ...
represented. Perhaps surprisingly, his teacher Liszt
Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...
is not strongly represented among d'Albert's recordings, though he committed "Au bord d'une source" from ''Années de pèlerinage
''Années de pèlerinage'' (French for ''Years of Pilgrimage'') ( S.160, S.161, S.162, S.163) is a set of three suites for solo piano by Franz Liszt. Much of it derives from his earlier work, ''Album d'un voyageur'', his first major published pi ...
'' (1st year) to disc in 1916. Brahms
Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped with ...
, Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his ra ...
, Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...
and Weber also feature in his discography.[Arnest, Mark]
"Eugene d'Albert: Discography"
(2006)
As a composer, d'Albert has been more widely represented on record in recent years than previously. Some modern recordings include:[
*Piano Concertos No. 1 in B minor, Op. 2, and No. 2 in E major, Op. 12
**]Piers Lane
Piers Lane (born 8 January 1958) is an Australian classical pianist. His performance career has taken him to more than 40 countries. His concerto repertoire exceeds 75 works.
Early life
Lane's English father and Australian mother met while au ...
/BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
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/ Alun Francis
**Joseph Banowetz
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/ Moscow Symphony Orchestra
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/ Dmitry Yablonsky
*String Quartets No. 1 in A minor, Op. 7, and No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 11
**Sarastro Quartet[Westbrook, Roy]
"Eugene d'Albert (1864–1932): Christophorus CHE02022"
1996, MusicWeb International, accessed 18 February 2021
*Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor, Op. 10; Klavierstücke, Op. 16; Heft 1 and Heft 2, Serenata and Capriolen Fünf schlichte Klavierstücke
**Piers Lane
*''Tiefland''
**Éva Marton
Éva Marton (born 18 June 1943) is a Hungarian dramatic soprano, particularly known for her operatic portrayals of Puccini's ''Turandot'' and ''Tosca'', and Wagnerian roles.
Vocal training and early years
Marton was born in Budapest, where sh ...
; René Kollo
René Kollo (born 20 November 1937) is a German operatic tenor, especially known for his Wagnerian Heldentenor roles. He also performed a wide variety of operas and operettas, and made several recordings.
Biography
Born René Kollodzieyski in ...
; Bernd Weikl
Bernd Weikl (born 29 July 1942) is an Austrian operatic baritone, particularly known for his performances in the stage works by Richard Wagner. He also has written books and directed operas.
Career
Born in Vienna, he moved with his family to M ...
; Kurt Moll
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His voice was notable for its range, a true basso profondo, including full, resonant low and very-low notes wi ...
; Münchner Rundfunkorchester/Marek Janowski
Marek Janowski (born 18 February 1939 in Warsaw) is a Polish-born German conductor. He is currently chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic.
Childhood
Janowski grew up in Wuppertal, near Cologne, after his mother traveled there at the st ...
**Margherita Kenney; Waldemar Kmentt
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Born in Vienna, Kmentt studied at the Vienna Music Academy, firs ...
; Otto Wiener; Vienna Symphony Orchestra
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/ F. Charles Adler
Frederick Charles Adler (usually known as F. Charles Adler) (born on 2 July 1889 in London and died 16 February 1959 in Vienna) was an English-German conductor.
Adler studied with Gustav Mahler and served as chorus master at the premiere of M ...
** Lisa Gasteen; Johan Botha; Falk Struckmann
Falk Struckmann (; born 1958 in Heilbronn, West Germany) is an operatic bass-baritone, particularly prominent in the Wagnerian repertoire.
A Kammersänger of the Vienna State Opera, he made his debut there as Orest in '' Elektra'' on 13 September ...
; Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
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/ Bertrand de Billy
Bertrand de Billy (born Paris, 11 January 1965) is a French conductor.
He attended a Jesuit school, but only started serious musical studies when he was around 14–15; he studied piano and violin.
*''Die Abreise''
**Hermann Prey
Hermann Prey ( Berlin, 11 July 1929 – Krailling, 22 July 1998) was a German lyric baritone, who was equally at home in the Lied, operatic and concert repertoires. His American debut was in November 1952, with the Philadelphia Orchestra an ...
; Edda Moser
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Life and career
Moser was born in Berlin, th ...
; Peter Schreier
Peter Schreier (29 July 1935 – 25 December 2019) was a German tenor in opera, concert and lied, and a conductor. He was regarded as one of the leading lyric tenors of the 20th century.
Schreier was a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor conduct ...
; Philharmonia Hungarica
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It was first established in Baden bei Wien near Vienna by Hungarian musicians who had fled their homeland after it was invaded by Sovi ...
/ János Kulka
Notes
References
*Ainger, Michael (2002). ''Gilbert and Sullivan – A Dual Biography''. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Further reading
*Lederer, Josef-Horst: "Albert, Eugen d'", in: ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG), biographical part, vol. 1 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1999), cc. 336–339.
*Pangels, Charlotte: ''Eugen d'Albert: Wunderpianist und Komponist: eine Biographie'' (Zürich & Freiburg: Atlantis Musikbuch-Verlag, 1981), .
*Raupp, Wilhelm: ''Eugen d'Albert. Ein Künstler- und Menschenschicksal'' (Leipzig: Koehler und Amelang, 1930).
*Sadie, Stanley (ed.): ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', 4 vols. (1992).
*Tyler, Luke: ''Eugen d'Albert (1864–1932) and His Piano Sonata, Op. 10: Its Use of Unifying Devices and Formal Structure'' (DA diss, Ball State University, 2014).
External links
*
official web-site of the 1st International Eugen d'Albert Music Competition
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20050306063111/http://www.rprf.org/Rollography.html Piano rollsavailable fro
The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation
including rolls recording D'Albert's playing.
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