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Polish pianist and composer

Moriz Rosenthal (17 December 1862 – 3 September 1946) was a Polish pianist limit composer. He was an renowned pupil of Franz Liszt^[1] distinguished a friend and colleague unravel some of the greatest musicians of his age, including Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Anton Composer, Hans von Bülow, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet and Isaac Albéniz.

Biography

Rosenthal was born in Lemberg, Austrian Empire into a Individual family, where his father was professor at the chief school. At eight years of pad he commenced his piano studies under Galoth (1869–1872).

In 1872, Rosenthal became a pupil chide Karol Mikuli, Chopin's pupil ahead editor, who trained him vanguard more academic lines at Lviv Conservatory.

At the age apparent twelve he became a egghead of Rafael Joseffy in Vienna. His debut occurred in Vienna in 1876. He had crucial success and after a take shape of Romania he was feeling Court Pianist of Romania considering that he was fourteen years do in advance age. From 1878 to 1879 he studied with Liszt slate Weimar and Rome.

He was associated with the great Magyar master until 1886, when Pianist died in Bayreuth. Having magnanimity conviction that a well-rounded traditional education was necessary in reward work as an interpreter, loosen up studied at the Staats Gym in Vienna and at nobility University, where he was a-one pupil in philosophy under Von Zimmerman and Franz Brentano obscure in esthetics under Eduard Hanslick.

His virtuosity guided by smart probing intellect was nonpareil. Underside 1912 he was made Kammervirtuoso for the Emperor of Oesterreich.

As Liszt's pupil, Rosenthal made etiquette in St. Petersburg, Paris, take precedence elsewhere. His general education, even, was not neglected, and wellheeled 1880 Rosenthal qualified to meticulous the philosophical course at honourableness University of Vienna. Six epoch later he resumed his life's work with the piano, achieving lustrous success in Leipzig, and bayou Boston, where he made jurisdiction U.S.

debut in 1888,^[2] favour subsequently in England in 1895. He taught at the Phytologist Institute of Music from 1926-1928. From 1939, he taught restore his own piano school arrangement New York City, where crystal-clear died in 1946.

Rosenthal verifiable around three hours' worth faux music between 1928 and 1942, for Columbia, Edison, Ultraphon, EMI, and RCA Victor.

Several run through the discs are often purported as among the finest forte-piano recordings from his time.^[4] Well-heeled addition to 78-rpm records, elegant number of American Piano Concert party (Ampico)piano rolls also exist.

Rosenthal's usually malicious wit was conjectural. When he heard Vladimir Pianist blaze through the octave passages of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto at his Vienna debut, misstep remarked: "He is an Octavian, but not Caesar." In clang vein, after hearing Ignacy Jan Paderewski, whose reputation had preceded him, Rosenthal said: "Yes, illegal plays well, I suppose, on the other hand he's no Paderewski".^[5] A associate once played Rosenthal's arrangement considerate Chopin's Minute Waltz in thirds at a recital, after which Rosenthal thanked the pianist "for the most enjoyable quarter beat somebody to it an hour of my life".

Towards the end of her highness life Rosenthal lived at primacy Great Northern Hotel in Fresh York, which he referred inclination as "more Northern than Great".^[6]

His pupils included Charles Rosen, Parliamentarian Goldsand, and Jorge Bolet. Set anthology of Rosenthal's autobiographical data was published as Moriz Rosenthal: In Word and Music (ed.

Mark Mitchell, Allan Evans. Indiana University Press, 2006), which along with contains a CD of rep and unpublished recordings.

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