CARL RUDOLF HERMANN FRIEDBERG (BINGEN, GERMANY,
SEPTEMBER, 18, 1872 – MERAN, ITALY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1955)
He was son of Eduard Friedberg (?–1937) and Elisa Landau (1844–1926)
from Bingen. The Friedberg were wine merchants in Bingen since 1700. Friedberg
studied piano with James Kwast and with Clara Schumann at the Hoch
Conservatory, Frankfurt. He became a teacher there (1893–1904) and later at the
Cologne Conservatory (1904–1914). From 1923 until his retirement in 1946, Carl
Friedberg was principal piano teacher at the New York Institute of Musical Art
(the institution which become the Juilliard School of Music from 1926). His
pupils include Gertrude Lightstone Mittelmann, William Browning, Malcolm
Frager, Edith Weiss-Mann, Bruce Hungerford, Reginald Bedford, Nina Simone,
William Masselos, Frances Ziffer, and Elly Ney. Friedberg’s career as a
performer spanned over 60 years in both Europe and America. He made his
official debut in 1892 with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Mahler.
This performance received a positive review from Edward Hanslick. In 1893 he
had given an all-Brahms recital in the presence of the composer, who highly
admired his playing and who later coached him in private on the performance of
the majority of his piano works. As a chamber musician he replaced Artur
Schnabel in the Schnabel-Flesch-Becker Trio in 1920 and played in that ensemble
until 1932. Friedberg gave many recitals with Fritz Kreisler throughout America
and in 1937 formed his own trio with Daniel Karpilowsky and Felix Salmond. In
1955, at age 82, he planned a concert tour in Europe. He took an ocean liner to
Italy, but contracted pneumonia on board. He went to Meran (Merano) for a cure,
but died and is buried there.
TRACKLIST
1092 BEETHOVEN – Piano Sonata, Op. 81, “Les adieux” – lst mvt.
1094 WELTE-MIGNON SCHUBERT – Moment Musical, Op. 94, No. 3, f
1095 WELTE-MIGNON BRAHMS – Rhapsody, Op. 79, 2, g
1096 WELTE-MIGNON BRAHMS – Hungarian Dance No. 2, d
1097, 1098 WELTE-MIGNON SCHUBERT – Piano Sonata, Bb (Posthumous) D.
960 2nd mvt.
1100 WELTE-MIGNON SCHUETT – Scènes du bal – Valse lente, Op. 17, No.
2, Ab
1101 WELTE-MIGNON KOSTLAR Monte Christo, Valse
1103 FRIEDBERG – Gavotte, G
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