BERYL RUBINSTEIN DUO-ART PIANO ROLLS CDR

 

BERYL RUBINSTEIN (ATHENS, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 26, 1898 – CLEVELAND, OHIO, DECEMBER 29, 1952)

 

 

 

 

He was born in Athens, Georgia, where his father Isaac Rubinstein was the rabbi of the Congregation of the Children of Israel. He was a child prodigy on the piano, and made his New York City debut in 1911, with a concert at the Metropolitan Opera House. He then studied piano in Berlin, Germany with Ferruccio Busoni and others, making his debut in New York City in a joint concert with Eugène Ysaÿe in 1916. There followed several American and European tours. He also toured as an assistant pianist for the Duncan Dancers, a troupe headed by Isadora Duncan. In 1921 he joined the music faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music, serving as the institution’s director from 1932 until his death. He wrote an Outline of Piano Pedagogy (1929); among the works he composed were a piano concerto, a string quartet, and numerous pieces and studies for piano solo. Composer Jane Corner Young was one of his students. After the U.S. entry into World War II, Rubinstein (then 43) enlisted in the U.S. Army with the rank of captain in the Fifth Service Command. He was given the role of coordinating the unit’s wartime musical activities. From 1942 to 1944 he traveled 20,000 miles and participated in seventy-five concerts for servicemen in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. After the war Rubinstein returned to Cleveland to resume the directorship of CIM, which expanded greatly over the next decade. Rubinstein died in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1952 and was buried at Mayfield Cemetery. He was the father of social historian David Rubinstein. He married Elsa Landesman who attended Wellesley College. They were married by Abba Hillel Silver, a leading American Zionist, on 29 December 1925.  He was survived by his wife, his son David, and his daughter Ellen Weld.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

5965 DUO-ART LIAPOUNOFF – Transcendental Etude, Op. 11, No. l Berceuse (Lullaby)

6236 DUO-ART ARENSKY – Caprice, Op. 43, No. 6, B

6527 DUO-ART MENDELSSOHN – Consolation, Op. 30, No. 3; Folk Song, Op. 53, No. 5

5962 DUO-ART LISZT – Hungarian Rhapsody, No.8, S.244

ANNA SCHYTTE WELTE-MIGNON PIANO ROLLS CDR

 

ANNA JOHANNE SCHYTTE, ALSO KNOWN AS ANNA JUTTA SCHYTTE (COPENHAGEN, 20 NOVEMBER, 1877 – COPENHAGEN, 16 MARCH, 1953)

 

 

 

 

Schytte was born in Copenhagen. Her father and first music teacher was the composer Ludwig Schytte. Later, she studied music with Ove Christensen, Franz Neruda and Julius Rontgen in the Netherlands, and with Alfred Reisenauer and Ignaz Friedman in Germany.

Schytte gave piano performances in Amsterdam, Denmark (as the soloist in her father’s piano concerto), Germany (at the Leipzig Gewandhaus under conductor Arthur Nikisch), London, Paris (at the Salle Pleyel) and Stockholm. She performed with the Brussels Quartet and the Bohemian String Quartet, and taught in Copenhagen. She recorded her father’s Berceuse op. 26, Nr. 7, for Welte Mignon.

Schytte composed at least one piece for piano, Capriccietto, A Study in Staccato. Both her father and Ignaz Friedman dedicated compositions to her: Four Preludes, Opus 61 by Friedmann, and Petit Preludes, Opus 65 by Ludwig Schytte.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

970 WELTE-MIGNON SCHYTTE – Berceuse (Cradle Song) Op. 26, No. 7, G

975 WELTE-MIGNON SJOGREN – Fantasiestück (Fantasy Piece), Ab: On the Sea

980 WELTE-MIGNON TCHAIKOVSKY – Romance, Op. 5, f

 

ROSITA RENARD DUO-ART PIANO ROLLS CDR

 

ROSITA RENARD (ROSA AMELIA RENARD ARTIGAS) (SANTIAGO DE CHILE, FEBRUARY 8, 1894 – SANTIAGO DE CHILE, MAY 24, 1949)

 

 

 

 

Rosa Amelia Renard Artigas was born in Santiago, the daughter of a Catalan building contractor, José Renard, and his Chilean wife, Carmen Artigas. Her younger sister Blanca Renard was also an internationally-acclaimed pianist, who later taught in Alabama. Rosa studied in Germany under Martin Krause, and won the Liszt Prize while in Berlin. She was a mentor to young Claudio Arrau when they were both students. Renard played a Grieg concerto with the Chilean Symphony Orchestra at age 14. She toured as accompanist with American singer Geraldine Farrar in 1919. From 1930, she worked at the Chilean National Conservatory, teaching in the piano department until 1936. She continued touring occasionally, and performed in Canada, Mexico, and throughout South America, as well as in many American cities. The highest point of her career came after 1945, when she started an artistic cooperation with conductor Erich Kleiber. She gave a recital at Carnegie Hall on January 19, 1949. Renard married a Czech singer, Otto Stern, in 1928. She died in Santiago soon after her Carnegie Hall recital, in May 1949, aged 55 years, after contracting a rare and fatal form of sleeping sickness from a mosquito bite. In 1993 a biography of Renard by Samuel Claro was published in Spanish.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

DUO-ART 6006 J.STRAUSS-SCHULZ-EVLER – “Blue Danube” Arabesques

DUO-ART 6031 SCHUMANN – “Fantasiestücke”, Op. 12, No. 7 Traumeswirren (Dream Vis)

DUO-ART 6338 SAUER – Galop de Concert

FRIEDA KWAST-HODAPP WELTE-MIGNON PIANO ROLLS CDR

 

FRIEDA KWAST-HODAPP (HELMSTADT-BARGEN, AUGUST 13, 1880 – BAD WIESSEE, SEPTEMBER 14, 1949)

 

 

 

 

She was a student of Max Reger. From 1887 to 1891 she studied as a free student at Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. From 1891 to 1898 she studied at Hoch Conservatory. After her first appearance in Darmstadt in 1899, she began her career in 1901 with a concert tour to St. Petersburg and Moscow. Then followed an extensive concert activity in Germany and almost all European countries, alongside teaching. After giving up her concert activity in 1932, she started to give master classes in Heidelberg in 1934. She was married to the Dutch-German music educator James Kwast; after his death she married Otto Krebs shortly before his death in 1941. In 1898 she received the Mendelssohn Prize in Berlin. James Kwast and Frieda Hodapp were awarded the Mecklenburg-Strelitz Orden für Kunst und Wissenschaft in Gold in 1912.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

3408 CHOPIN – Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 58, b 2nd and 3rd mvts.

3409 CHOPIN – Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 58, b 4th mvt.

3410 WELTE-MIGNON LISZT – Transcendental Etude No. 8, c Wilde Jagd (Wild Hunt)

3413 WELTE-MIGNON REGER – Variations and Fugue on Theme of Telemann, Op. 134, Part 1

3414 WELTE-MIGNON REGER – Variations and Fugue on Theme of Telemann, Op. 134, Part 2

CONRAD ANSORGE WELTE-MIGNON AND TRIPHONOLA PIANO ROLLS CDR

 

CONRAD EDUARD REINHOLD ANSORGE (BUCHWALD, SILESIA, 15 OCTOBER, 1862 – BERLIN, GERMANY, 13 FEBRUARY, 1930)

 

 

 

 

He was born in Buchwald, Silesia, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1880 and 1882, and under Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1885 and 1886. He toured Europe and the United States. He was known for his interpretations of Beethoven. On 15 April 1890, his “Orpheus” symphony was performed in Steinway Hall, New York, under the baton of Theodore Thomas. He became professor of pianoforte at Weimar in 1893. From 1898 to 1903 he taught at Berlin, in the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory. In 1920 he became head of the piano master class at the German Academy (Deutschen Akademie für Musik und Darstellende Kunst) in Prague. Conrad Ansorge’s students included: Selim Palmgren, Eduard Erdmann, James Simon, Alice Herz-Sommer, and Wilhelm Furtwängler. He made some Welte-Mignon recordings in 1905, of music by Liszt, Schumann and others. He also wrote a Requiem, two symphonies, a piano concerto, three piano sonatas, two string quartets, and other works. None of these are in the current repertoire. He married the pianist Margarete Wegelin. Their son Joachim (1893-1947) was also a pianist and teacher. He died in Berlin.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

287 WELTE-MIGNON SCHUBERT – Impromptu, Op. 90, No. 1, c

288 WELTE-MIGNON BACH-ANSORGE – Toccata, C

291 WELTE-MIGNON SCHUBERT-LISZT – Frühlingsglaube (Faith in Spring)

292 WELTE-MIGNON SCHUBERT-LISZT – Du bist die Ruh (Thou art Repose)

52355 TRIPHONOLA BEETHOVEN – Sonata Op 90 E Minor

51425, 12637 TRIPHONOLA RUBINSTEIN – Staccato Etude Op. 23 No. 2

ALFRED REISENAUER THE COMPLETE WELTE-MIGNON PIANO ROLLS CDR

 

ALFRED REISENAUER (KÖNIGSBERG, GERMANY, 1 NOVEMBER, 1863 – LIEPĀJA, LATVIA, 3 OCTOBER, 1907)

 

 

 

 

He was a pupil of Louis Köhler and Franz Liszt. As one of the most important piano teachers and players of his time, Reisenauer became principal professor of piano at the Sondershausen Conservatory in 1885. He was in Liszt’s household when Liszt died in 1886 and was a torchbearer at the side of the coffin during the funeral procession. After beginning to teach piano at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1900, he was eventually appointed director of the same institution where his students included Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Sergei Bortkiewicz, and Anatol von Roessel. Reisenauer led a highly successful career as a pianist, especially in Germany and Russia, and was well known for his sensitive playing, especially of Schumann. He also made a speciality of Liszt’s virtuosic piano music. Starting in 1886 he toured Central Asia and Russia as far east as Siberia. He was known to suffer from stage fright and sometimes appear to be drunk on stage during a concert. He died suddenly at Liepāja (known in Germany as Libau) in 1907 during a concert tour.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

 

SCHUMANN – Carnaval, Op. 9, Nos. 1-11 Part One No: 1, Préambule – No. 2, Pierrot – No. 3, Arlequin – No. 4, Valse noble – No. 5, Eusebius – No. 6, Florestan – No. 7, Coquette – No. 8, Réplique – No. 9, Papillons – No. 10, Lettres dansantes – No. 11, Chiarina (Carnaval, Op. 9: No. 1, Préambule – No. 2, Pierrot – No. 3, Arlequin – No. 4, Valse noble – No. 5, Eusebius – No. 6, Florestan – No. 7, Coquette – No. 8, Réplique – No. 9, Papillons – No. 10, Lettres dansantes – No. 11, Chiarina) Welte-Mignon 321

SCHUMANN – Carnaval, Op. 9, Nos. 12-19 Part Two: No. 12, Chopin – No. 13, Estrella – No. 14, Reconnaissance – No. 15, Pantalon et Colombine – No. 16, Valse allemande – No. 17, Paganini – No. 18, Aveu – No. 19, Promenade Welte-Mignon 322

SCHUMANN – Carnaval, Op. 9, Nos. 20 & 21   Part Three: No. 20, Pause – No. 21, Marche des Davidsbündler contre les Philistins Welte-Mignon 323

LISZT – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 10, E (As played by Liszt) Welte-Mignon 324

CHOPIN-LISZT- “Polish Songs”, Op. 74, No. 1:  The Maiden’s Wish Welte-Mignon 325

BEETHOVEN – Rage Over a Lost Penny (Vented in a Caprice), Op. 129, a Welte-Mignon 326

BEETHOVEN – Bagatelle, a, WoO 69 “Für Elise” Welte-Mignon 327

CHOPIN – Berceuse (Cradle Song) Op. 57,  Db Welte-Mignon 328

BEETHOVEN – Rondo, Op. 51, No. 1,  C Welte-Mignon 330

PAUL DE CONNE WELTE-MIGNON PIANO ROLLS CDR

 

PAVEL LYUBIMOVICH KOHN (GERMAN: PAUL DE CONNE; PETERHOF, JULY 29, 1874 – VIENNA, 1959)

 

 

 

 

He graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he was a student of Anton Rubinstein. From 1911 to 1915 he taught a piano class at the Vienna Conservatory. Author of a number of piano pieces. He was friends with Sergei Bortkevich, who dedicated the Cello and Third Piano Concertos to him.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

907 WELTE-MIGNON HAYDN – Piano Sonata No. 50, HOB. XVIII: No. 37, D

914 WELTE-MIGNON A. RUBINSTEIN – Kamennoi-Ostrow, Op. 10, No. 15, a

917 WELTE-MIGNON WAGNER-SCHUETT – Improvisation on the “Preislied”fr “Meistersinger”

918 WELTE-MIGNON J.STRAUSS, JR.-SCHUETT – Improvisation on “Fledermaus” Waltz

919 WELTE-MIGNON CHOPIN – Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 2, Eb

921 WELTE-MIGNON J.STRAUSS, JR.-SCHUETT – Improvisation on “Artist’s Life” – Waltzes

922 WELTE-MIGNON SCHUETT – Romance, Op. 38, No. 2, Gb

926 WELTE-MIGNON LVOV – Russian National Hymn