Paul Wittgenstein News
Austrian pianist of Jewish heritage, emigrant from Nazi Austria to USA (1887-1961)
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- classical music
- Austria, United States of America
- pianist, music teacher, composer, art collector
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2024-03-05 09:40:00
New music for non-traditional inclusive ensembles: RNS Moves & National Open Youth Orchestra in dynamic new pieces
[…] electronic, and accessible instruments. Among more traditional instruments, the musicians also perform on some instruments not often found in orchestras, such as electric guitars, accordions, or on accessible instruments that may be completely new to audiences - from the Seaboard RISE to the ClarionTM, which some performers play using head movements.The concert includes new music by Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, Ben Lunn, Anna Meredith and Michael Betteridge. Ben Lunn's piece pays homage to the virtuoso pianist, Paul Wittgenstein, who, after losing his right arm in the First World War continued to play left-handed.Following the London concert, the orchestra will be touring to Bristol, Poole and BirminghamFull details from the Barbican website.
2022-07-04 06:06:00
Ravel: Concertos & Melodies (CD review)
[…] Deus Melodies hebriques (“Two Hebrew Songs”) in two brief movements. These are well sung by baritone Stephane Degout and provide a welcome interlude before we get to the more-famous Pavane pour une defune (“Pavane for a dead princess”), which Tiberghien plays with a flowing poise and power. That’s followed by another vocal interlude of three poems by Stephane Mallarme.Then comes the Concerto for the Left Hand, which Ravel wrote in 1929-30 for the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in World War I and commissioned a number of works for the left hand alone. The Concerto contains an assortment of different sections, but they’re present in a single movement. It is not as frisky or airy as the Concerto in G but, in fact, seems starker, weightier, sometimes sterner. Still, Tiberghien never overemphasizes the more severe or more martial elements of the score, concentrating instead on its insistent rhythms […]
2021-05-05 06:00:51
Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand: Big, Bold, and Jazzy
In the fall of 1929, Maurice Ravel received a commission for a concerto from the Austrian pianist, Paul Wittgenstein. After losing his right arm in the First World War, Wittgenstein relaunched his career, performing left hand piano repertoire. He solicited works from numerous composers, including Paul Hindemith, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Sergei Prokofiev, and Richard Strauss. Wittgenstein proved to be a difficult client. After receiving Strauss’ thickly scored work, he wrote back, “How ...
2021-04-18 23:16:00
Cynthia Cozette Lee: Black Classical Firsts Honored in April: Day 16 – Sylvia Olden Lee, Acclaimed Vocal Coach, Pianist and Music Educator
[…] 1952 living in New York City. Mrs. Lee married the distinguished conductor, Everett Lee, in January 1944. They first met in New York on September 17, 1943. Mrs. Sylvia Olden Lee and Maestro Everett Lee had two children, the late Everett Lee, III who sadly passed away in 2018 and Dr. Eve Lee and two grandchildren. Sylvia Olden Lee and Everett Lee eventually separated. While in New York, Sylvia Olden Lee studied piano with Victor Wittgenstein and performed in solo recitals. She taught voice interpretation and accompanied voice technique students in the studios of Elisabeth Schumann, Eva Gautier, Konraad Bos, Rosalie Miller, Fritz Lehmann and others. In addition, she prepared singers for the New York City Center and Metropolitan Opera. Also Mrs. Lee coached opera at Tanglewood with Boris Goldovsky. While at Tanglewood, Mrs. Lee was the technical advisor for the world premiere of Britten’s “Peter Grimes.” During this time, […]
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