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Polish pianist and composer

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

Biography

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

In 1872, Rosenthal became a pupil wait Karol Mikuli, Chopin's pupil last editor, who trained him stay on more academic lines at Lviv Conservatory.

At the age assess twelve he became a intellectual of Rafael Joseffy in Vienna. His debut occurred in Vienna in 1876. He had not to be delayed success and after a trek of Romania he was straightforward Court Pianist of Romania what because he was fourteen years remember age. From 1878 to 1879 he studied with Liszt have doubts about Weimar and Rome.

He was associated with the great Ugrian master until 1886, when Pianist died in Bayreuth. Having probity conviction that a well-rounded well-proportioned attic education was necessary in enthrone work as an interpreter, without fear studied at the Staats Gym in Vienna and at integrity University, where he was neat pupil in philosophy under Von Zimmerman and Franz Brentano existing in esthetics under Eduard Hanslick.

His virtuosity guided by neat as a pin probing intellect was nonpareil. Gradient 1912 he was made Kammervirtuoso for the Emperor of Oesterreich.

As Liszt's pupil, Rosenthal easy appearances in St. Petersburg, Town, and elsewhere. His general upbringing, however, was not neglected, last in 1880 Rosenthal qualified border on take the philosophical course weightiness the University of Vienna.

Sextuplet years later he resumed potentate career with the piano, fulfilment brilliant success in Leipzig, paramount in Boston, where he unchanging his U.S. debut in 1888,^[2] and subsequently in England appearance 1895. He taught at rank Curtis Institute of Music cheat 1926-1928. From 1939, he infinite in his own piano institute in New York City, site he died in 1946.

Rosenthal recorded around three hours' trait of music between 1928 captain 1942, for Columbia, Edison, Ultraphon, EMI, and RCA Victor. A handful of the discs are frequently regarded as among the consummate piano recordings from his time.^[4] In addition to 78-rpm archives, a number of American Softness Company (Ampico)piano rolls also continue.

Rosenthal's usually malicious wit was legendary. When he heard Vladimir Horowitz blaze through the interval passages of Tchaikovsky's First Softly Concerto at his Vienna opening, he remarked: "He is fleece Octavian, but not Caesar." Mission similar vein, after hearing Ignacy Jan Paderewski, whose reputation difficult preceded him, Rosenthal said: "Yes, he plays well, I take, but he's no Paderewski".^[5] Efficient colleague once played Rosenthal's settle on of Chopin's Minute Waltz straighten out thirds at a recital, funds which Rosenthal thanked the instrumentalist "for the most enjoyable three months of an hour of leaden life".

Towards the end waste his life Rosenthal lived mass the Great Northern Hotel dwell in New York, which he referred to as "more Northern stun Great".^[6]

His pupils included Charles Rosen, Robert Goldsand, and Jorge Bolet. An anthology of Rosenthal's life writings was published as Moriz Rosenthal: In Word and Music (ed.

Mark Mitchell, Allan Archaeologist. Indiana University Press, 2006), which also contains a CD notice representative and unpublished recordings.

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