FRANK MARSHALL KING (MATARÓ, CATALONIA,
NOVEMBER 28, 1883 – BARCELONA, MAY 29, 1959)
Marshall was
born in Mataró, Catalonia, Spain. He attended the Conservatori Superior de
Música del Liceu and then began studying with Enrique Granados. Marshall and
Granados became close musical associates, and Marshall became Granados’s
teaching assistant at the latter’s academy. When Granados died in 1916,
Marshall became its director; he remained director until his death in 1959, and
the institute’s name was eventually changed to Académia Frank Marshall. Among
his pupils at the school was the composer Vicente Asencio. He published two
pedagogic works, Estudio práctico sobre los pedales del piano (Madrid, 1919)
and La sonoridad del piano, which attempted to notate piano pedaling more
precisely. Marshall’s influence as a pianist and teacher impacted Catalan piano
playing heavily; his approaches to pedaling and voicing helped refine the
distinctive style of piano playing from the region. No. 3 of Federico Mompou’s
Cançons i danses was dedicated to him. His most famous student was Alicia de
Larrocha. Also the Catalan pianist Albert Attenelle, who premiered Federico
Mompou’s Variations on a Theme of Chopin. Marshall died in Barcelona in 1959,
aged 75.
TRACKLIST
4010 ALBENIZA
– “Suite Espagñole”, Op. 47, No. 3 Sevillanas
4011 ALBENIZ
– Pavana-Capricho, Op. 12
4012 ALBENIZ
– “Celebre” Serenata Española
4016 ALBENIZ
– Preludio, Op. 232, No. 1 from “Cantos de Espana”
4017 CHAVARRI – Leyenda del Castillo Moro (Legen d of a Moorish Castle)
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