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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819059903321

Titolo

Moriz Rosenthal in word and music : a legacy of the nineteenth century / / edited and with an introduction by Mark Mitchell and Allan Evans ; preface by Charles Rosen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-07265-X

9786612072659

0-253-11166-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MitchellMark (Mark Lindsey)

EvansAllan <1956->

Disciplina

786.2/092

B

Soggetti

Pianists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, discography (p. [149]-155), and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface / Charles Rosen -- Moriz Rosenthal : a chronology -- Introduction -- Autobiography / Moriz Rosenthal -- Review of a concert by M.R. in Vienna / Eduard Hanslick -- Letter to Lilli Lehmann / M.R. -- Review of a concert by M.R. in Manchester / Arthur Johnstone -- Rosenthaliana / Leonard Liebling -- The Diemer Competition, Paris [1903] / M.R. -- The bane of virtuosity (excerpt) / Lawrence Gilman -- From Music, the mystery and the reality / Paul Roes -- On Liszt's Don Juan fantasie / M.R. -- A stroll with Ferruccio Busoni / M.R. -- Mahleriana / M.R. -- Czar Alexander II / M.R. -- Review of a concert by M.R. / H.C.C. -- Letter to the editor / M.R. -- As others see us : H.C.C.'s response to M.R.'s letter to the editor -- The Korngold scandal -- From Franz Liszt / James Gibbons Huneker -- The old and the new school of piano playing / M.R. -- Review of a concert by M.R. / Kaikhosru Sorabji -- Letter to Herbert Hughes / M.R. -- Moriz Rosenthal-Emil Sauer : and modern pianism / Edward Prime-Stevenson -- Schumann's Carnaval / M.R. -- Anton Rubinstein's concert in Pressburg / M.R. -- My memories of Johannes Brahms / M.R. -- Brahmsiana / M.R. -- Brahms and Johann Strauss II / M.R. -- Review of



a concert by M.R. / G.C. -- Letter to the Editor / M.R. -- Review of a concert by M.R. -- From Aphorisms / M.R. -- On the question of applause / M.R. -- Appendix A. Rosenthal as humorist -- Appendix B. Annotated concertography -- Appendix C. Discography.

Sommario/riassunto

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