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
5641 DUO-ART BRAHMS – Ballade, Op. 10, No. 3, b
Intermezzo
5658 DUO-ART SCHUMANN – Novellette, Op. 21, No. 7, E
5695 DUO-ART CHOPIN – Etude, Op. 25, No. l, Ab
“Aeolian Harp”
5706 DUO-ART SCHUBERT – Impromptu, Op. 142, No. 3, Bb
“Rosamunde”
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