UNA MABEL BOURNE DUO-ART PIANO ROLLS CDR

 

UNA MABEL BOURNE (MUDGEE, NEW SOUTH WALES, 23 OCTOBER, 1882 – SOUTH YARRA, NEW SOUTH WALES, 15 NOVEMBER, 1974)

 

 

 

 

She was born at Mudgee, New South Wales, the daughter of James George Bourne and Margaret Webber Bourne. Her father was a shopkeeper. She was raised in Melbourne. Una Bourne’s musical abilities were evident early in life; she performed on piano in professional venues before her teens. She studied with Benno Scherek in Australia, and in several European cities as a young woman. “Miss Bourne has an excellent technique and plays with refinement and distinction,” an English critic wrote of a performance at London’s Bechstein Hall in 1906. Bourne joined Nellie Melba’s touring entourage in Australia in 1907, 1909, and 1912, both as an accompanist and performing solo. After 1912, she moved to England, where she gave concerts and toured. She performed for Queen Mary of Teck in 1914, and during World War I she gave benefit concerts and concerts at hospitals. In 1915 she began making recordings with the English Gramophone Company. She also made player-piano rolls in the United States, and gave performances for women’s clubs and radio audiences. During World War II she was based in Melbourne again, where she performed and opened a conservatory. Bourne’s art songs and compositions for piano are considered “light and dainty”, and include March Grotesque, Petite Valse Caprice, Gavotte, Humoresque, and Wiegenlied, which was dedicated to Nellie Melba. Una Mabel Bourne lived for many years with her friend and colleague, soprano Mona McCaughey, who died in 1964. Bourne died ten years later, in 1974, aged 92 years. Some of her papers, including original compositions in manuscript, are archived in the State Library of Victoria. There is a scholarship named for Una Bourne at Melbourne University.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

065 DUO-ART CHOPIN – Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 3, B

0266 DUO-ART BEETHOVEN – Piano Sonata, Op. 2, No. 2, A lst Mvt.

0360 DUO-ART BRAHMS – Waltzes, Op. 39, Nos. 2, E; 4, e; 12, E; 14, a; 15, Ab and 16, d

6741 DUO-ART DUO-ART PALMGREN Evening Whispers

ELLA JONAS-STOCKHAUSEN WELTE-MIGNON PIANO ROLLS CDR

 

ELLA JONAS-STOCKHAUSEN (ALSO: ELLA JONAS, ELLA STOCKHAUSEN) (DORTMUND, 1 OCTOBER 1883 -BERLIN, 6 FEBRUARY 1967)

 

 

 

 

From around 1900, Ellas Jonas-Stockhausen studied piano with the pianist and music teacher Wilhelm Bopp at the Grand Ducal Academy of Music in Mannheim, founded in 1899. She later studied in Berlin, probably at the Stern Conservatory.

After her studies in 1904/05, she began her career as a concert pianist and sought-after chamber music partner. She made her debut on 20 January 1905 with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of August Scharrer with the First Piano Concerto by Peter I. Tchaikovsky and with the Piano Concerto in E major, op. 12 by Eugène d’Albert.

From 1907 at the latest, she worked as a piano teacher at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin. Around 1911, she founded a piano trio that existed until about 1929. The line-up included the violinist Pálma von Pászthory, later replaced by Edith von Voigtländer, and the cellist Eugenie Stoltz-Premyslav or Lotte Hegyesi.

Ella Jonas-Stockhausen was persecuted during the Nazi era because of her Jewish origins and survived this period in Berlin. Her last verifiable address in Berlin (Wilmersdorf) was Duisburger Str. 4. She lived there from 1918 with her husband, the chemist Ferdinand Stockhausen (1875–1950), a brother of Hans Stockhausen. In 1935, she was banned from performing by the Reich Music Chamber due to the Nuremberg Race Laws. Her husband’s extensive art collection, which he was forced to leave to Herman Göring in his will, saved her life and kept her from being sent to a concentration camp – she survived in seclusion in her Berlin apartment. In 1943, the art collection was taken to Silesia to protect it from bombing and is now considered lost. In 1947, Ella Jonas-Stockhausen resumed her concert activities, including at RIAS and Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

858 CHOPIN – Waltz, e (Posthumous)

859 JENSEN – Irrlichter (Will-o-the-Wisp), Op. 17, No. 11, b

860 SAPELLNIKOFF – Gavotte, Op. 4, No. 2, E

GISELLA GROSZ WELTE-MIGNON PIANO ROLLS CDR

 

GISELLA GROSZ, ORIGINALLY GIZELLA GROSZ (26 NOVEMBER 1875, SZILÁGYSOMLYÓ, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY – 1942, RIGA GHETTO, LATVIA)

 

 

 

 

Grosz was born into a Jewish family in Szilágysomlyó, then Austria-Hungary, today Șimleu Silvaniei, Romania. She studied piano at the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music in Budapest with István Thomán. In 1897 she gave her first concerts in Budapest and in 1898 and 1899 in Leipzig and Berlin with good success. From 1898 on she lived in Berlin, where she studied with Teresa Carreño. She performed as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1902, 1905, 1908 and 1909. On February 6, 1906 she was one of the first female pianists to record for Welte-Mignon. In 1911, she retired from her concert career to marry Adolf Weissmann (1873–1929), a well known Berlin music critic and author of biographies of Bizet, Chopin, Verdi, and Puccini. Grosz continued as a teacher of the piano and hosted frequent musicales into the 1920s, until her husband’s untimely death in 1929. She was listed in Berlin telephone directories from 1937 to 1940 as Gisella Weissmann (Weißmann). In 1940 the statutory Jewish middle name Sara was added to her listing, and in 1941 Jews were omitted altogether. In January 1942 she was deported to Riga, Latvia, and died there in that year. Grosz and Weissmann had in 1908 a child born out of wedlock, Ilse. The daughter became a pianist too, taught mainly by her mother in Berlin and Konrad Wolff in Paris. From 1933 on Ilse Weissmann lived in France, England and Italy and finally emigrated to the US, where she died in 2000.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

1063 WELTE-MIGNON SCHUMANN – Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 22, g 2nd mvt.

1064 WELTE-MIGNON SCHUMANN – Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 22, g 3rd mvt.

1067 MENDELSSOHN – The Wanderer, Op. 30, No. 4, b (Songs w o Words)

ERNEST SCHELLING DUO-ART PIANO ROLLS CDR

 

ERNEST HENRY SCHELLING (BELVIDERE, NEW JERSEY, JULY 26, 1876 – MANHATTAN, NEW YORK CITY, DECEMBER 8, 1939)

 

 

 

 

He was born in Belvidere, New Jersey on July 26, 1876. Schelling was a child prodigy. His first teacher was his father. He made his debut at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at age 4. At age 7, Schelling traveled to Europe to study. He was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire. While in Europe he worked with many great masters including Percy Goetschius, Hans Huber, Richard Barth, Moritz Moszkowski and Theodor Leschetizky. At the age of 20 in 1896, he began studying with Ignace Paderewski and was his only pupil for three years. He toured Europe and North and South America, gaining a reputation as a remarkable pianist. His first wife was Lucie Howe Draper, whom he married on May 3, 1905 in Manhattan, New York City. She died on February 4, 1938 at their summer home in Lausanne, Switzerland. He married his second wife, Helen Huntington “Peggy” Marshall, on August 11, 1939, when she was 21 and he was 63. She was the stepdaughter of the philanthropist Brooke Astor, and a niece of Vincent Astor. He died of a cerebral embolism at his home in Manhattan, New York City on December 8, 1939. His bride of four months was at his deathbed side. Schelling wrote numerous works for piano, orchestra and chamber groups which were often performed during his lifetime, but have since fallen from the repertoire. His most popular work was A Victory Ball, a symphonic poem for orchestra based on an anti-war poem by Alfred Noyes. Willem Mengelberg and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra made an early electrical recording of the music for the Victor Talking Machine Company. He was elected an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity, the national fraternity for men in music, in 1917 by the fraternity’s Alpha chapter at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Schelling was the first conductor of the Young People’s Concerts of the New York Philharmonic. The first concert was held March 27, 1924. The concerts were designed to encourage the love of music in children. Schelling held these concerts in New York, and also took them on the road. Such cities as Philadelphia, London, Rotterdam and Los Angeles hosted them. From 1935 to 1937 he was the conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

5721 Duo-Art CHOPIN – Polonaise, Op. 53, Ab “Heroic”

5799 Duo-Art LISZT – Piano Sonata in b 3rd Mvt.

5839 Duo-Art CHOPIN – Nocturne, Op. 37, No. 2, G

MIKHAIL DOULOFF WELTE-MIGNON PIANO ROLLS CDR

 

MIKHAIL TIMOFEEVICH DOULOFF (1877 – 1948)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He was a pianist-ensemble player and accompanist. According to contemporaries, he possessed a unique memory, ease of reading from a list, and a fine sense of ensemble partnership. He performed in St. Petersburg and on tour with Chaliapin, Figner, Ershov, played in an ensemble with many famous string soloists (Nathan Milstein, Naum Blinder, Henri Marteau, Emanuel Feuermann). Before the revolution, he performed in symphony concerts of Sergei Koussevitzky, symphony gatherings of the Imperial Russian Musical Society. In the 20s and 30s, he was a regular participant in philharmonic concerts. On March 29, 1924, Douloff’s 4000th jubilee concert was celebrated in the Philharmonic Hall. And on May 9, 1926, a concert was held here on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of his musical activity. The last performance of Mikhail Douloff on the stage of the Philharmonic took place during the war – on January 1, 1944, Douloff accompanied the singers at the “Master of Arts – Komsomol” concert.

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

2016 TCHAIKOVSKY – Fantasie on Themes from the Opera “Eugen Onegin”

2017 TCHAIKOVSKY – Fantasie on Themes from the Opera “Pique Dame”

2018 GLINKA – Fantasie on Themes from the Opera “A Life for the Tsar”

DAVID SCHORR WELTE-MIGNON PIANO ROLLS CDR

 

DAVID SOLOMONOVICH SCHORR (SIMFEROPOL, RUSSIAN EMPIRE, JANUARY 15, 1867 – TEL AVIV, PALESTINE, JUNE 1, 1942)

 

 

 

 

Born in Simferopol, in a Jewish family. Parents: teacher and public figure Solomon Schorr and Dina Dukat. He studied music at home, then at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1880-1885 with K. Fan-Ark and V. Safonov. In 1885 he transferred to the Moscow Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1889. Schorr turned down an offer to stay at the conservatory as a teacher, as it involved baptism. He taught piano at the Elizabeth Institute in Moscow. In 1895 he was among the participants in the first Rubinstein competition. In 1892, together with violinist David Krein and cellist Modest Altshuler (since 1896 Rudolf Ehrlich played the cello instead of Altshuler), Schorr founded the “Moscow Trio” (also known as ” Schorr’s Trio”), which became famous outside of Russia. In 1907, Schorr left the trio (at that time he was replaced by A. B. Goldenweiser), but later returned to its composition, in which he remained until the collapse of the team in 1924. Since 1889, Schorr has been active in teaching and concert activities, performing in various cities of Russia. At the same time, he took part in quartet meetings of the Russian Musical Society in Moscow and St. Petersburg and taught at the Moscow Elizabethan Institute. In the early 1890s, Schorr and his brother Alexander opened a private music school in Moscow. In 1911, with the assistance of Leonid Sobinov, Schorr and his son Yevsey founded the Beethoven Institute of Musical Education (Beethoven Studio). Before the revolution, D. Schorr was also engaged in private teaching in Moscow (among his students was V. A. Sudeikina) and read lectures on musical history in the Pedagogical Society of Moscow University, in his homeland in Simferopol and other cities. In 1918 – 1925 he was a teacher (since 1919 professor) of the Moscow Conservatory in chamber ensemble and piano classes. In 1908, together with Ivan Bunin, Schorr visited the land of Israel, after which he became an activist in the Zionist movement in Russia. After the start of mass arrests of Zionists by the Soviet authorities in 1922, Schorr used his connections in the highest spheres of the Soviet party nomenclature and, with the help of L. Kamenev, achieved the replacement of the prison and exile for the arrested Zionist leaders by deportation abroad “without the right to return to the Soviet Union” and deprivation of citizenship . In total, such a measure was applied until the beginning of the 30s to about two thousand Soviet Zionists. Later, Russian Jews whose lives were saved by Schorr’s initiative planted a grove in his honor in Ben Shemen. In May 1925, Schorr and another Zionist figure, Yitzhak Rabinovich, sent a memorandum to the acting chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, P. Smidovich (part-time chairman of KomZET), as well as to the chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars A. Rykov. The memorandum proposed to stop anti-Zionist repressions, release previously arrested Zionists, allow emigration to Palestine, and allow Soviet Jews to study Hebrew as the language of a national minority. In June, Rykov met with Schorr and Rabinovich, who then participated in a meeting with the leadership of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the GPU. The ideas set out in the memorandum were eventually rejected by the authorities. In 1925 Schorr left for Palestine , but returned to Moscow in 1926. In 1927 he finally settled in Tel Aviv, giving concerts and lectures in different localities of the country and teaching music. In 1934, Schorr and his son Yevsey (Yehoshua) organized the Tel Aviv Department of Musical Education, and in 1936, the Institute of Musical Enlightenment and Education in Holon. David Schorr died on June 1, 1942.

Family

Wife – Rakhil Kalmanovna Schorr.

Daughter – Eva Davidovna Schorr (Evgenia; 1890, Moscow – 1940), in 1913-1922 she was married to the poet Vadim Shershenevich. Joint daughter – Irina. After emigrating, they lived in Belgium.

Daughter – Maria Davidovna Schorr. The only one of the children who did not follow her father to Palestine and remained in Moscow.

Son – Yevsey Davidovich Schorr (in Palestine – Yehoshua Schorr; 1891, Moscow – 1974, Holon, Israel) – journalist, teacher, musical figure. In 1910 he graduated from the gymnasium, at the same time he studied piano with his father. In 1911-1918 he worked at the Beethoven Institute (since 1917 he was a professor). Since 1922 – abroad, for some time he lived in France, Italy, then in Palestine. Engaged in active journalistic and social-musical activities.

Niece (daughter of pianist, teacher of the Moscow Conservatory Alexander Solomonovich Schorr, 1864-1939) – Olga Alexandrovna Schorr (pseudonym Dechart; 1894-1978), known as the secretary of the poet Vyacheslav Ivanov, the keeper of his literary heritage and the main editor of the complete collection of his works.

Cousin – pianist Alexander Germanovich Schorr (1876-1942).

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

WELTE-MIGNON 2086 SCHUMANN – Schlummerlied (Slumber Song) Op. 124, No. 16, Eb

WELTE-MIGNON 2088 C.P.E. BACH – Rondo, b

WELTE-MIGNON 2089 BACH-SAINT-SAENS – Gavotte from the Violin Concerto #2, b 2nd mt.

2090 BACH – Partita No. 1, Bb S. 825 Gigue

FRANCISZEK BRZEZIŃSKI WELTE-MIGNON PIANO ROLLS CDR

 

FRANCISZEK KSAWERY BRZEZIŃSKI (WARSAW, SEPTEMBER 6, 1867 – WARSAW, AUGUST 6, 1944)

 

 

 

Son of Kazimierz and Walentyna née Suchorzewscy. Grandson of Filipina Brzezińska. After completing law studies in Dorpat (now Tartu in Estonia), he began music studies with Jan Kleczyński in Warsaw, then in Paris and Leipzig with Max Reger, Stephan Krehl and Arthur Nikisch. After returning to Poland, he worked as a music reviewer in “Kurier Warszawski”. In 1912 he married Anna Kirchner. He was the Polish consul in Wrocław (1921-1927) and in Berlin. He is buried at the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw (section A-1-19/20).

 

TRACKLIST

 

277 J. STRAUSS, JR. – Roses from the South – Waltzes, Op. 388

357 J. STRAUSS, JR. – On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Waltzes, Op. 314

359 JOS. STRAUSS – Frauenherz (Woman’s Heart) Polka-Mazurka, Op.166