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

 

 

Sie tanzt Op. 57 Nr. 5 (Grieg)  45551 10903u G&T 6-07

Soirée de Vienne, 1 Teil 2 Teil (Strauss) G&T 45568, 45569, 15027b, 15028b 26-10-10

Symphony 13 Minuetto (Mozart, arr. Schulhoff) G&T 45572 15017 25-10-10

Traumlied (A. Grünfeld) (p. Grünfeld) (v. Leo Slezak) G&T 2-42647

Tristan und Isolde  (Wagner, arr. Liszt) Liebestod G&T 045522 01010v 5-09

Ungarische Fantasie (Grünfeld) G&T 45522 1071x 02

Valse mignonne Op. 51 Nr. 4 (Grünfeld) G&T 45541 691r 1905

Vöglein Op 43 No 4 (Grünfeld) 45547 10907u G&T, 6-07

Walzer in A-Moll Op. 34 Nr. 2 Chopin (Chopin) G&T 45550 10904u 6 07

Walzer in Cis-Moll Op. 64 Nr. 2 (Chopin) G&T 45581 13103L 19-10-11

Walzer in E-Moll Op. Post (Chopin) G&T 45586 13848L 10- 5-12

Wichtelmännchen Op. 3 (Korngold) G&T 45591 16726L 15- 5-14

Wie schön bist du die Lieb’ (Grünfeld) G&T 42829 870x 02