ERNST VON DOHNANYI,
HUNGARIAN ERNŐ DOHNÁNYI (JULY 27, 1877, POZSONY, HUNG.— FEB. 9, 1960, NEW YORK,
N.Y., U.S.)
Dohnanyi studied in Budapest at
the Royal Academy of Music, where his first symphony was performed in 1897. As
a pianist he traveled widely and established a reputation as one of the best
performers of his day. He taught at the Berlin Academy for Music (1908–15) and
was conductor of the Budapest Philharmonic and associate director of the
Budapest Academy of Music (1919). In 1931 Dohnanyi was musical director of
Hungarian radio. In 1948 he left Hungary as a political exile; his influence
under the prewar regime was held against him, and his music was banned in
communist Hungary for more than 10 years. He taught in Argentina and from 1949
held the position of composer-in-residence at Florida State University. He
became a U.S. citizen in 1955. Dohnányi’s music, which was chiefly influenced
by Johannes Brahms, was late Romantic and conservative in style, and after 1910
he occupied only a minor place among contemporary Hungarian composers. His
works include the Ruralia Hungarica for violin, three symphonies, a ballet, the
Suite in F-sharp Minor, three operas, and chamber works, notably the Second
String Quartet and the two piano and string quintets.
TRACKLIST
1. WELTE-MIGNON 489 SCHUBERT -
Piano Sonata, Op. 42, a 2nd mvt.
2. WELTE-MIGNON 490 SCHUBERT -
Piano Sonata, Op. 42, a 3rd mvt.
3. WELTE-MIGNON 491 LISZT -
Consolation No. 3, Db
4. WELTE-MIGNON 492 LISZT -
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15, a “Rakoczy March”
5. WELTE-MIGNON 493 BACH - Organ
Fantasia and Fugue on the name B-A-C-H
6. WELTE-MIGNON 494 LISZT -
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13, a
7. WELTE-MIGNON 495 BEETHOVEN -
Piano Sonata, Op. 78, F# lst mvt.
8. WELTE-MIGNON 496
SCHUBERT-LISZT - Soireés de Viennes (Vienna Evenings) No. 4, Db
9. WELTE-MIGNON 497 BRAHMS -
Capriccio, Op. 76, No. 2, b
10. WELTE-MIGNON 498 CHOPIN -
Waltz, Op. 64, No. 2, c#
11. WELTE-MIGNON 500 DOHNANYI -
Gavotte and Musette
12. WELTE-MIGNON 501 SCHUMANN -
Romance, Op. 28, No. 2, F#
13. WELTE-MIGNON 502 DOHNANYI -
Capriccio, Op. 2, No. 4, b
