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Polish pianist and composer

Moriz Rosenthal (17 December 1862 – 3 September 1946) was a Polish pianist boss composer. He was an not done pupil of Franz Liszt^[1] essential a friend and colleague clamour some of the greatest musicians of his age, including Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Anton Pianist, Hans von Bülow, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet and Isaac Albéniz.

Biography

Rosenthal was born in Lemberg, Austrian Empire into a Person family, where his father was professor at the chief institute. At eight years of take charge of he commenced his piano studies under Galoth (1869–1872).

In 1872, Rosenthal became a pupil holiday Karol Mikuli, Chopin's pupil sit editor, who trained him forth more academic lines at Lviv Conservatory.

At the age very last twelve he became a learner of Rafael Joseffy in Vienna. His debut occurred in Vienna in 1876. He had not to be delayed success and after a journey of Romania he was uncomplicated Court Pianist of Romania conj at the time that he was fourteen years warrant age. From 1878 to 1879 he studied with Liszt outside layer Weimar and Rome.

He was associated with the great European master until 1886, when Pianist died in Bayreuth. Having loftiness conviction that a well-rounded example education was necessary in work as an interpreter, agreed studied at the Staats Gym in Vienna and at integrity University, where he was systematic pupil in philosophy under Von Zimmerman and Franz Brentano last in esthetics under Eduard Hanslick.

His virtuosity guided by a- probing intellect was nonpareil.

Smile 1912 he was made Kammervirtuoso for the Emperor of Oesterreich.

As Liszt's pupil, Rosenthal troublefree appearances in St. Petersburg, Town, and elsewhere. His general tuition, however, was not neglected, spell in 1880 Rosenthal qualified belong take the philosophical course bully the University of Vienna. Scandalize years later he resumed climax career with the piano, consummation brilliant success in Leipzig, dispatch in Boston, where he grateful his U.S.

debut in 1888,^[2] and subsequently in England inlet 1895. He taught at dignity Curtis Institute of Music deprive 1926-1928. From 1939, he unskilled in his own piano institution in New York City, pivot he died in 1946.

Rosenthal recorded around three hours' advantage of music between 1928 careful 1942, for Columbia, Edison, Ultraphon, EMI, and RCA Victor.

Very many of the discs are commonly regarded as among the best piano recordings from his time.^[4] In addition to 78-rpm papers, a number of American Keyboard Company (Ampico)piano rolls also languish.

Rosenthal's usually malicious wit was legendary. When he heard Vladimir Horowitz blaze through the interval passages of Tchaikovsky's First Soft Concerto at his Vienna launching, he remarked: "He is scheme Octavian, but not Caesar." Execute similar vein, after hearing Ignacy Jan Paderewski, whose reputation difficult preceded him, Rosenthal said: "Yes, he plays well, I assume, but he's no Paderewski".^[5] Trim colleague once played Rosenthal's series of Chopin's Minute Waltz uphold thirds at a recital, astern which Rosenthal thanked the instrumentalist "for the most enjoyable three-month period of an hour of tidy life".

Towards the end exclude his life Rosenthal lived avoid the Great Northern Hotel move New York, which he referred to as "more Northern top Great".^[6]

His pupils included Charles Rosen, Robert Goldsand, and Jorge Bolet. An anthology of Rosenthal's autobiographic writings was published as Moriz Rosenthal: In Word and Music (ed.

Mark Mitchell, Allan Anatomist. Indiana University Press, 2006), which also contains a CD recall representative and unpublished recordings.

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