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EDDY BROWN (CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA, JULY 15, 1895 – ABANO TERME, ITALY, JUNE 14, 1974)

 

 

 

 

His father, with whom he had his first lessons, was Austrian and his mother, Russian.  He later studied with Hugh McGibney in Indianapolis while still a child.  He is known for having launched and hugely influenced classical music radio programming in the U.S.  In fact, he gave the first radio performance of all ten Beethoven sonatas.  In 1936, he pioneered radio station WQXR in New York City (devoted exclusively to classical music) which survives to this day.  His first public appearance as a violinist was at age six.  At age nine (1904), he enrolled at the Royal Conservatory in Budapest where he studied with Jeno Hubay, Bela Bartok and others.  Two years later, he took first prize in the Budapest Concerto Competition.  Eugene Ormandy took second.  Brown graduated in 1909 and soon after made his formal debut in Budapest playing the Beethoven concerto.  That same year he made his London debut with the London Philharmonic playing Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto – he was fourteen years old.  His Berlin debut came in 1910 with the Brahms concerto.  He then studied further (until 1916) with Leopold Auer at the St Petersburg Conservatory and concertized world wide for some time after that.  His U.S. debut was at Indianapolis in 1916 with the Beethoven concerto.  He made his New York debut that same week.  He began to record (if one can call it that) in 1916.  He also formed a string quartet (name unknown) and established the Chamber Music Society of America. After becoming involved in radio in 1930, he essentially stopped touring, though he played for many of the different radio programs which he created and in various venues close to New York.  Ironically, almost none of the hundreds of performances he gave on radio survive.  Brown started to teach at the University of Cincinnati in 1956.  He was named Artist-in-Residence of Butler University (Indianapolis) in 1971.  Brown died unexpectedly (in Italy) on June 14, 1974, at age 78.

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

The Broken Melody (Van Biene) with Josef Bonime, piano Columbia A3656 80253

The Old Refrain (Brandl) Max Terr (piano) Columbia A2882 78322

To a Wild Rose (MacDowell) Jascha Zayde (piano) Royale 1874 US 1564

To a wild rose (MacDowell) Max Terr (piano) Columbia A2778 78329

Turkey in the Straw Jascha Zayde (piano) Royale 1874 US 1563

Your eyes have told me so (Blaufuss) Max Terr (piano) Columbia A2989 79273

 

Mana-Zucca, Eddy Brown, Orchestre De L’Association Des Concerts Pasdeloup, Paris Direction: Jean Allain –Concerto De Violon En Ré Majeur

Label: Bradime-Disques – LD-MS-1501, Bradime-Disques – 1.501

Format: Records, 10″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Album, Stereo

Country: France

Genre: Classical

Concerto De Violon En Ré Majeur

A1 1st Movement: Allegro Con Fuoco

B2 2ème Mouv. : Andante Con Moto

B3 3ème Mouv. : Allegro-Burlesque Con Ritmo

Recording studio – Centre d’Enregistrement des Champs-Elysées

Composed By, Piano – Mana-Zucca

Conductor – Jean Allain

Engineer – André Charlin

Orchestra – Orchestre De L’Association Des Concerts Pasdeloup

Soloist, Violin – Eddy Brown

The sleeve says the orchestra is “Orchestre De L’Association Des Concerts Pasdeloup” whilst the label says “Orchestre Pasdeloup Paris”.

Authors’ society: BIEM

Matrix / Inner Ring (Side A label): 1501 A

Matrix / Inner Ring (Side B label): 1501 B

 

Suite Antique (Stoessel)

Eddy Brown & Albert Stoessel (violins)

Acc: Chamber orchestra (cond: Edgar Schenkman)

1854-1856, US-1388-1, US-1389-1, US-1390-1, US-1392-2

 

Sonata Virginianesque, Op.7 (John Powell) In the Quarters… In the Woods… At the Big House (Piano John Powell) USA Royale 1870, 1870, 1871, 1871, 1872, 1872, 1409, 1410, 1428, 1429, 1430, 1431