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Eugen (originally Eugène) Francis Charles d'Albert (10 April 1864 – 3 March 1932) was a Scottish-born pianist and composer. 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
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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 pi ...
, and was successively a British, German and Swiss citizen.


Biography


Early life and education

D'Albert was born at 4 Crescent Place,
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, 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 Giuseppe Matteo Alberti (or Giuseppi) (20 September 1685, in Bologna, Italy – 18 February 1751, in Bologna, Italy) was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist. Life In 1705, he became a member of the Accademia Filarmonica. From 1709, he ...
and Domenico Alberti.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
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. 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"
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'', 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,
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, John Stainer and
Arthur Sullivan Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (13 May 1842 â€“ 22 November 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including ''H.M.S. Pinafore'', '' The Pirates of Penzance ...
. By the age of 14, he was winning public praise from ''
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'' as "a bravura player of no mean order" in a concert in October 1878. He played Schumann's Piano Concerto at the Crystal Palace 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 ''
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'', 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 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 '' H.M.S. ...
's 1881 opera, ''
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''. 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."


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, enabling him to study in Vienna, where he met
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,
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and other important musicians who influenced his style.Kennedy, Michael (ed.
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''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 ''
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'' 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
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.
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"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 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. 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 classic ...
's sonatas and J. S. Bach'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 music, Romantic and early Modernism (music), modern eras, he has been descr ...
'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 ''
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'', 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
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. 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 ''Die Abreise'' (''The Departure'') is a comic opera in one act by composer Eugen d'Albert. The libretto was written by Ferdinand Sporck, a friend of the composer, after a play by August Ernst Steigentesch. Composition history Eugen d'Albert com ...
'' (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
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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
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, 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 ''
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'' 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
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,
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 ...
, 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), bec ...
and
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, 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 pi ...
, 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, who originated the role of the witch in Humperdinck's ''
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''; 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
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, 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
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in
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, 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
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recordings, including the Piano Sonatas Nos. 18 and 21 ( "Waldstein"), and the "Spring" Sonata for violin and piano (with
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). A selection of Chopin pieces were recorded in the 1910s and 1920s, with études, polonaises and
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represented. Perhaps surprisingly, his teacher
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is not strongly represented among d'Albert's recordings, though he committed "Au bord d'une source" from '' Années de pèlerinage'' (1st year) to disc in 1916.
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,
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,
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
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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 **
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/ Alun Francis ** Joseph Banowetz/
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/ Dmitry Yablonsky *String Quartets No. 1 in A minor, Op. 7, and No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 11 **Sarastro QuartetWestbrook, 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; René Kollo; Bernd Weikl; Kurt Moll; Münchner Rundfunkorchester/ Marek Janowski **Margherita Kenney; Waldemar Kmentt; Otto Wiener;
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/ F. Charles Adler ** Lisa Gasteen;
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; Falk Struckmann;
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; Philharmonia Hungarica/
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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


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