(A unique collection of American romantic piano music, wri...)
A unique collection of American romantic piano music, written largely in the last third of the 19th century, by Foote, Whiting, Paine, Chadwick and Nevin. In a period where in Europe piano music was in the hands of towering virtuosos like Liszt, Anton Rubinstein and later Rachmaninoff, the American scene was notably less tormented, focusing on tone painting idyllic landscapes, rural scenes and charming dance forms. These genre pieces share the same delightful characteristics as their European pendants by Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Grieg, Gade, Sinding and others. Young pianist Artem Belogurov (born in Latvia, grew up in Odessa/Ukraine and now lives in Boston) is a former student of Peter Serkin. For this recording he plays a beautiful period instrument, a 1873 Chickering piano. Chickering was one of the most respected and successful piano builders of the 19th century; Hans von Bülow premiered Tchaikovskys first piano concerto in Boston on a Chickering, and Franz Liszt owned two of their instruments. The booklet contains extensive liner notes on the music and composers, an artist biography and information and photos of the instrument.
THE ROSARY ETHELBERT NEVIN 1905 SHEET MUSIC FOLDER 435 SHEET MUSIC
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Nevin, Ethelbert : Barcarolle for violin with piano accompaniment
(Ethelbert Nevin (1862 - 1901) Barcarolle for violin with ...)
Ethelbert Nevin (1862 - 1901) Barcarolle for violin with piano accompaniment Barcarolles violin, piano Score + Part 10 pp. This is an Eastman Scores Publishing professional reprint of the work originally published by: Schirmer, 1893 ISMN : 979-0-087-00455-8
Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin was an American pianist and composer.
Background
Nevin was born on November 25, 1862, at Vineacre, on the banks of the Ohio River, in Edgeworth, Pennsylvania, Unitede States.
Nevin's mother, Elizabeth Duncan Oliphant, was a pianist.
The first grand piano ever taken across the Allegheny Mountains was carted over for Nevin's mother. Other members of the Nevin family showed musical inclinations as well; Nevin's younger brother, Arthur, also achieved some renown as a composer, as did his cousins George and Gordon Balch Nevin.
Education
Nevin came from a musical family and acquired a fairly thorough musical education in the United States and Germany.
There he spent the first sixteen years of his life, and received all his schooling, most of it from his father, Robert Peebles Nevin, editor and proprietor of a Pittsburgh newspaper, and a contributor to many magazines. (It is interesting to note that Robert Nevin also composed several campaign songs, among them the popular "Our Nominee, " used in the day of James K. Polk's candidacy).
From a young age, Nevin was musically inclined. He began playing the piano by the age of four, although he needed cushions piled on the pedals to enable him to reach them.
Nevin's father provided for his son both vocal and instrumental instruction.
He also took him abroad for two years of travel and music study in Dresden under Von Böhme.
In 1878, he attended Western University, now known as the University of Pittsburgh, but left at the end of his freshman year in 1879.
Later he studied the piano for two years at Boston, under Benjamin Johnson Lang, and composition under Stephen A. Emery.
Career
After two years studying in Boston, in 1882 Nevin moved back to Pittsburgh, where he gave lessons, and saved money enough to take him to Berlin. There he spent the years 1884, 1885, and 1886.
In 1885, Hans von Bülow incorporated the best four pupils of his friend, Klindworth, into an artist class, which he drilled personally.
Among the forty or fifty studious listeners at these recitals, Frau Cosima Wagner, the violinist Joseph Joachim, and many other celebrities were frequently present.
Nevin returned to America in 1887, and took up his residence in Boston, where he taught and played at occasional concerts.
In 1892 he went to Paris, where he taught singing, and he coached many American and French artists for the operatic stage.
In 1893 he moved on to Berlin, where he worked so hard at composition that his health collapsed, and he spent a year in Algiers.
The early months of 1895 he spent in concert tours through this country.
Seeking solitude and the right atmosphere for composition, he went to live in Florence, where he composed his suite May in Tuscany (Op. 21). After a year in Venice Nevin made Paris his home for a year, then returned to America, where he remained until his death.
On the night of February 15, 1901, while in New Haven, Connecticut, Nevin had attended a recital given by Harold Bauer.
After returning home, however, his health worsened.
He had shown symptoms of numbness in his hands, altering his ability to play the piano. On the morning of February 17, he was confined to his bed as his health was becoming more unpredictable.
Quotations:
Of Karl Klindworth Nevin says: "To Herr Klindworth I owe everything that has come to me in my musical life. He was a devoted teacher, and his patience was tireless. His endeavor was not only to develop the student from a musical standpoint, but to enlarge his soul in every way.
To do this, he tried to teach one to appreciate and to feel the influence of such great minds of literature as Goethe, Schiller, and Shakespeare.
He used to insist that a man does not become a musician by practising so many hours a day at the piano, but by absorbing an influence from all the arts and all the interests of life, from architecture, painting, and even politics. "
Personality
Despite being a prominent composer, Nevin had recurring debt towards the end of his life. This situation plagued Nevin with ongoing depression, accompanied by heavy drinking. e overworked himself at times, steadily deteriorating his health.
Quotes from others about the person
As Klindworth said of him, "he has a touch that brings tears, " and it is in interpretation rather than in bravura that he excels.
Connections
Nevin was married to Anne Paul Nevin with whom he had two children.