Description

ALFRED GRÜNFELD (PRAGUE, JULY 4, 1852 – VIENNA, JANUARY 4, 1924)

 

 

 

 

Grünfeld was born as the second of ten children in a family of a Jewish leather merchant Moses Grünfeld and his wife Regina, born Pick in Prague – New Town. He received his first music lessons at the age of four. Later he studied with Josef Krejčí at the Prague Conservatory and with Theodor Kullak and J. T. Hoyer at the New Academy of Music in Berlin. In 1873 he settled at Vienna, where he received the title of “Kammervirtuose”, and held a concert tour throughout Europe and the United States. During a visit to Germany Grünfeld was appointed court pianist to Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany. For his concert performances he received many titles, medals and decorations. From 1897 he was a professor at the Vienna Conservatory. His brother was musician Heinrich Grünfeld. His Viennese house is at Getreidemarkt 10, and has a plaque above the door, created by the Viennes sculptor Florian Josephu. His grave can be visited in the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

Caprice in H-Moll Op. 76 Nr. 2 (Brahms) G&T 45561 13300u 08

Causerie Op. 50 (Grünfeld) G&T 45592 16727L 15- 5-14

Children’s Corner Suite Nr. 6 – Golliwog’s Cake-Walk (Debussy) G&T 45594 16731L 15- 5-14

Der Lebemann Colibri-Polka (Grünfeld) (w. Keplinger, Ortner & Swoboda) G&T 44207 737½’z 03

Der Lebemann Diner-Walzer (Grünfeld) G&T 2-42575 771z 03

Der Lebemann Flirt-Gavotte (Grünfeld) G&T 44208 738’z 03

Der Vogel als Prophet Op. 82 Nr. 7 (Schumann) G&T 45558 13301u 08

Der Zigeunerbaron Klopf-Polka (Johann Strauss-Grünfeld) G&T 45583 13850L 10- 5-12

Die Schmetterling Op. 43 No. 1 (Grieg) Berliner 75521 2634 6-99

Die Walküre (Wagner-Brassin) Feuerzauber G&T 045508 267m 06

Etude a la Tarantella (Grünfeld) G&T 45538 6711b 1905

Etude à la tarentelle Op. 47 Nr. 3 (Grünfeld) G&T 45577 13099L 19-10-11

Frühlingsstimmen (Johann Strauss) G&T 045503Z  701m 29- 4-13

Fünf Walzer, Op 39 Nr 1, 2, 3, 5, 4… 6, 7, 8, 15 (Brahms) ES145 G&T 045526, 045527, 2063c, 2064c, 26-10-10