Moriz Rosenthal in Word and Music: A Legacy of the Nineteenth Century

Moriz Rosenthal in Word and Music: A Legacy of the Nineteenth Century

Moriz Rosenthal in Word and Music: A Legacy of the Nineteenth Century

Moriz Rosenthal in Word and Music: A Legacy of the Nineteenth Century

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Overview

As a pianist, Rosenthal was unparalleled: his legato touch came from
Chopin through his pupil Mikuli; his awareness of composition was developed by
Liszt; his Brahms interpretation shaped by the composer himself; and his ingeniously
crafted piano-paraphrases memorialized his friendship with Johann Strauss II. Yet
Rosenthal's pianistic abilities were married to a rare intellectual erudition -- a
knowledge of literature, history, philology, science, philosophy, and society that
few pianists have ever matched, let alone surpassed.

In these
striking pieces, we see every facet of Rosenthal: memoirist, social critic,
pedagogue, and virtuoso. He could write with gravity and pathos, yet his famous and
sometimes devastating wit is legendary. This volume combines Rosenthal's writings
with critical assessments of the pianist by such contemporaries as Eduard Hanslick,
Edward Prime-Stevenson, and Hugo Wolf. It is rounded out with an illuminating
preface by Charles Rosen, perhaps Rosenthal's most renowned pupil; a discography and
concertography; and a CD featuring never-before-released Rosenthal
recordings.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780253111661
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/03/2005
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 923 KB

About the Author

Mark Mitchell is the author of Virtuosi and Vladimir de Pachmann both
published by Indiana University Press. He is the recipient of a John Simon
Guggenheim Fellowship for 2006-2007.

Allan Evans is the founder,
owner, and producer of Arbiter Recording Company. He lives in New York
City.

Table of Contents

<FMO>Contents<\>
Preface Charles
Rosen
Acknowledgments
Moriz Rosenthal: A
Chronology
Introduction
1. Autobiography Moriz
Rosenthal
2. Review of a Concert by M. R. in Vienna Eduard
Hanslick
3. Letter to Lilli Lehmann M. R.
4. Review of a Concert
by M. R. in Manchester Arthur Johnstone
5. Rosenthaliana Leonard
Liebling
6. The Diémer Competition, Paris [1903] M. R.
7. The
Bane of Virtuosity (excerpt) Lawrence Gilman
8. From Music, The Mystery and
the Reality Paul Roës
9. On Liszt's Don Juan Fantasie M. R.
10. A
Stroll with Ferruccio Busoni M. R.
11. Mahleriana M. R.
12. Czar
Alexander II M. R.
13. Review of a Concert by M. R. H. C. C.
14.
Letter to the Editor M. R.
15. As Others See Us: H. C. C.'s Response to M.
R.'s Letter to the Editor
16. The Korngold Scandal
17. From Franz
Liszt James Gibbons Huneker
18. The Old and the New School of Piano Playing
M. R.
19. Review of a Concert by M. R. Kaikhosru Sorabji
20.
Letter to Herbert Hughes M. R.
21. Moriz Rosenthal<N>Emil
Sauer: and Modern Pianism Edward Prime-Stevenson
22. Schumann's Carnaval M.
R.
23. Anton Rubinstein's Concert in Pressburg M. R.
24. My
Memories of Johannes Brahms M. R.
25. Brahmsiana M. R.
26. Brahms
and Johann Strauss II M. R.
27. Review of a Concert by M. R. G.
C.
28. Letter to the Editor M. R.
29. Review of a Concert by M. R.

30. Aphorisms M. R.
31. On the Question of Applause M.
R.
Appendix A. Rosenthal as Humorist
Appendix B. Annotated
Concertography
Appendix C.
Discography
Notes
Index


Moriz
Rosenthal CD Track List
1. Frédéric Chopin, Nocturne in D flat, Op. 27.
No. 2 5:01
rec. on May 22, 1936. mtx: 2EA 3641-5 HMV DB 2926
2.
Frédéric Chopin, Sonata no. 3 in B minor, Op. 58, Allegro Maestoso 8:46

rec. on June 27, 1939. test pressing mtx. CS 040220/1
3.
Frédéric Chopin, Sonata no. 3 in B minor, Op. 58, Scherzo 2:39
rec. on
June 22, 1939. test pressing mtx. CS 040206
4. Frédéric Chopin, Sonata
no. 3 in B minor, Op. 58, Largo 9:09
rec. on June 2 3, 1939. test pressing
mtx. CS 040211 72
5. Frédéric Chopin, Sonata no. 3 in B minor, Op. 58,
Finale* 5:09
rec. on June 26, 1939. test pressing mtx. CS 040215 16-2

6. Frédéric Chopin, Sonata no. 3 in B minor, Op. 58, Largo (truncated)*
5:33
broadcast by the BBC, I.ondon on March 23, 1935 (courtesy of the
National Sound Archive)
7. Frédéric Chopin, Mazurka in C sharp minor,
Op. 63 No. 3 1:59
rec. on March 3. 1931. mtx. 2-21783-2, Decca 25268

8. Frédéric Chopin, Etude in G flat, Op. 10 No. 5 1:43
rec. on
March 3. 1931. mtx. 2-21783-2, Decca 25268
9. Frédéric Chopin, Etude in
C, Op. 10 No. 1 2:08
rec. on March 3, 1931. mtx. 2-21784, Decca 25268

10. Frédéric Chopin, Mazurka m G, Op. 67 No. 1 1:25
rec. on
March 3, 1931. mtx. 2-21783-2, Decca 25268
11. Chopin-Liszt: My Joys* 4:16

rec. on March 18, 1942. test pressing CS 97 3 45 2-2
12.
Albeniz: Triana 4:12
rec. on May 29, 1929. mix. 2-21461, Decca 25875

13. Strauss-Rosenthal: Blue Danube Waltz 7:37
rec. on March 6,
1931. mtx. 2-2178586, Parlophone P 9562
14. Franz Schubert: Moment Musical
No. 3 2:03
rec. on October 22, 1937. mtx. OEA 3645-2
15.
Schubert-Liszt: Soirée de Vienne 5:10
rec. on May 25. 1936. mtx. OEA
36478, HMV DA 1510
16. Frédéric Chopin, Valse in C sharp minor, Op. 64
No. 2 3:53
rec. on May 22, 1936. mix. 2EA 2625-4, HMV DB 2772

17. Frédéric Chopin, Mazurka in B,Op. 63 No. 1 2:14
rec. on
October 22, 1937. mtx. OEA 5505-2, HMV DA 1660

Total playing
time: 73:06
* previously unpublished recording

Producer: Allan Evans; Restoration: Studio FS Roma; Our gratitude
to Donald Hodgman, the late Philip Stern, Jonathan Summers, the National Sound
Archive, Daniel Sbardella, Donald McCormick, and The Rodgers and Hammerstem Archives
of Recorded Sound (New York Public
Library at Lincoln Center) for the kind
use of their recordings.

What People are Saying About This

Norman Lebrecht

"Rosenthal's reminiscences are essential reading for all who wonder where the magic has gone from the modern piano." —Normal Lebrecht

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"This wonderfully researched and lovingly constructed book will introduce readers to a fascinating personality among pianists of the Golden Age." —Marc-Andre Hamelin

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