Tobias Matthay Vídeos
músico británico
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- piano
- música clásica
- Reino Unido
- compositor, musicólogo, profesor de música, pianista
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Felix Gerald Swinstead Scriabin Sterndale Bennett Bennett Thalberg Tobias Matthay Domenico Scarlatti 1880 1959
A short prelude, from the late romantic period, by the largely forgotten English composer Felix Swinstead. This is a lovely piece, with some moments that are reminiscent of Scriabin, including descending chromatic lines, augmented intervals, and syncopated polyrhythms. Felix Gerald Swinstead ( 25 June 1880 – 14 August 1959 )was an English pianist, composer and music educator. Swinstead won a Sterndale Bennett Scholarship and a Thalberg Scholarship and studied piano with Tobias Matthay and composition with Frederick Corderat the Royal Academy of Music. Later he worked here as a professor of piano. As a pianist he performed not only in Great Britain but also in Canada, South Africa, Australia and the West Indies. He composed about 200 mostly small piano pieces, many of them as practice pieces for piano students. He partly summarized the pieces in collections such as Album Leaves, Fancies Grave and Gay and Idylls. In addition, he also composed more demanding pieces, which he performed at his concerts. In addition, Swinstead composed a sonata and some smaller pieces for violin and piano, a romance for cello and piano and the song cycle Sing-Song. His only known orchestral works are a Scarlatti Suite based on the harpsichord sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti (also for piano and string orchestra and for two pianos) and the piece Red Gauntlet, performed on the occasion of his death by the Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music under the direction of Ernest Reed. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Bach Egon Petri Einstein Ralph Vaughan Williams Tobias Matthay Coolidge Edward Elgar Stratton Sir Arnold Bax Béla Bartók Freeman Duncan Honeybourne Clein Royal Albert Hall 1685 1750 1881 1895 1912 1917 1924 1932 1933 1935 1936 1938 1943 1948 1950 1951 1954 1960 1962 1967 1969 1992 2006
Johan Sebastian Bach +••.••(...)) / Egon Petri +••.••(...)) -Johan Sebastian Bach Fantasia in c minor BWV 906 transcribed by Egon Petri Played by Harriet Cohen Recorded in London March 22nd. 1935 Albert Einstein dubbed her his Beloved 'Piano-Witch', D. H. Lawrence immortalized her in his novel 'Kangaroo', and Vaughan Williams composed a concerto just for her. One of the leading concert pianists of the inter-war era, Harriet Cohen was a stunning brunette, a woman who appeared literally to have the world at her fingertips. The distinguished English pianist, Harriet Cohen (born London Dec. 2nd. 1895 - died London Nov. 13 1967), studied piano first with her parents. She studied then at the Royal Academy of Music from 1912 to 1917. She took an advanced course in piano with Tobias Matthay, and later taught at his school. Harriet Cohen made her first public appearance as a solo pianist at the age of 13. She then engaged in a successful career in England, both as a soloist with major orchestras and in chamber music concerts. Small hands limited her repertory, but she quickly made a reputation as a Bach player and also played many contemporary composers. She played at the Salzburg Contemporary Music Festival in 1924, at the Coolidge Festival, Chicago. She became particularly associated with contemporary British music, and a number of composers wrote music specifically for her. She gave the world premiere of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Piano Concerto, dedicated to her, in 1933, and recording Edward Elgar's Piano Quintet with the Stratton String Quartet under the composer's supervision. Sir Arnold Bax, who was her life-long friend and occasional lover, wrote most of his piano pieces for her. This includes the Rhapsody in F sharp minor for Piano and Orchestra, which was first performed at the Royal Albert Hall on August 19, 1943, and the music for David Lean's 1948 film version of Oliver Twist. The last six pieces in the collection Mikrokosmos (known as Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythms), by Béla Bartók, are also dedicated to her. In 1948 Harriet Cohen was the victim of a domestic kitchen accident. As she was pouring a glass of water, the glass shattered in her right hand. She played works for the left-hand alone until 1951. Arnold Bax was inspired to compose for her his Concertino for Left Hand, a Neo-Classical work. Her injury was never completely cured and in 1960 she reluctantly retired. She was made a CBE in 1938, a Freeman of the City of London in 1954, and received many honors from other countries. The Harriet Cohen International Music Prizes were founded by Arnold Bax and others in 1951. In 1932 twelve leading British composers published transcriptions in a Bach Book for Harriet Cohen. She herself published some Bach transcriptions and a small book on interpretation, Musics Handmaid (London, 1936, 2nd edition 1950), while her memoirs, A Bundle of Time (London, 1969), are valuable for letters from friends eminent in all walks of life. In January 2006, Dearest Tania, a words-and-music program telling the story of Cohen, premiered, written by Duncan Honeybourne and performed with actress Louisa Clein. The love affair between Arnold Bax and Harriet Cohen was the subject of a 1992 BBC television show in which Glenda Jackson played the role of Harriet Cohen. (http•••)
Tobias Matthay Sir William Sterndale Bennett Bennett Frederick Corder John Blackwood McEwen Blackwood York Bowen Hess Clifford Curzon Moura Norton Mackinnon Marjory Kennedy Fraser Fraser 1858 1876 1893 1900 1905 1925 1937 1945
No 1 Twilight Hills, & No 2 Wind Sprites Matthay was born in London in 1858 to parents who had come from northern Germany and were naturalised British subjects.[1] He studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Sir William Sterndale Bennett and also taught there from 1876 to 1925 as professor of advanced piano. With Frederick Corder and John Blackwood McEwen, he co-founded the Society of British Composers in 1905.[2] He founded a piano school in 1900 and soon became known for his teaching (known as the Matthay System) that stressed proper piano touch and analysis of arm movements. He published several books of technique, which brought him international recognition. Many of his pupils went on to define a school of 20th century English pianism, including York Bowen, Myra Hess, Clifford Curzon, Moura Lympany, Eunice Norton, Lytle Powell, Irene Scharrer, Lilias Mackinnon, Guy Jonson, Vivian Langrish and Harriet Cohen. He was also the teacher of Canadian pianist Harry Dean and English conductor Ernest Read. Matthay also composed a quantity of piano music but it is little known.[1] His wife Jessie née Kennedy, whom he married in 1893, was a sister of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser. She died in 1937.[1] Tobias Matthay died at High Marley Manor near Haslemere in 1945, aged 87.
Tobias Matthay Sir William Sterndale Bennett Bennett Frederick Corder John Blackwood McEwen Blackwood York Bowen Hess Clifford Curzon Moura Norton Mackinnon Marjory Kennedy Fraser Fraser 1858 1876 1893 1900 1905 1925 1937 1945
Matthay was born in London in 1858 to parents who had come from northern Germany and were naturalised British subjects.[1] He studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Sir William Sterndale Bennett and also taught there from 1876 to 1925 as professor of advanced piano. With Frederick Corder and John Blackwood McEwen, he co-founded the Society of British Composers in 1905.[2] He founded a piano school in 1900 and soon became known for his teaching (known as the Matthay System) that stressed proper piano touch and analysis of arm movements. He published several books of technique, which brought him international recognition. Many of his pupils went on to define a school of 20th century English pianism, including York Bowen, Myra Hess, Clifford Curzon, Moura Lympany, Eunice Norton, Lytle Powell, Irene Scharrer, Lilias Mackinnon, Guy Jonson, Vivian Langrish and Harriet Cohen. He was also the teacher of Canadian pianist Harry Dean and English conductor Ernest Read. Matthay also composed a quantity of piano music but it is little known.[1] His wife Jessie née Kennedy, whom he married in 1893, was a sister of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser. She died in 1937.[1] Tobias Matthay died at High Marley Manor near Haslemere in 1945, aged 87.
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