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WALTER MORSE RUMMEL (BERLIN, GERMANY JULY 19, 1887 – BORDEAUX, FRANCE MAY 2, 1953)

 

 

 

 

He was a prominent pianist, especially associated with Claude Debussy’s works, as well as a composer and music editor. He was of German-English descent and active mainly in France. Rummel was born in Berlin to Franz Rummel and Cornelia “Leila” Morse Rummel. His father was from a prominent family of German musicians, and his mother was a daughter of telegraph inventor Samuel Morse. He studied piano with Leopold Godowsky and composition with Hugo Kaun, before moving to Paris in 1908. On his way to Paris he met Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Switzerland, who called some of his piano compositions “not far from masterpieces” and invited him to stay for a year as a pupil; Rummel however turned down the invitation and continued to Paris. While in Paris he met Claude Debussy and became a leading interpreter and proponent of Debussy’s piano compositions. He died in Bordeaux in 1953. In addition to his own performances and compositions, Rummel had an interest in preserving and arranging earlier music. He edited several volumes of early music, and published piano arrangements of organ works by Bach and Vivaldi, as well as four books of piano arrangements of cantata movements of Bach.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

  

1. Etude in C sharp minor op.25 n.7 (Chopin) Columbia AX 389 1924
2. Ave Maria d’Arcadelt (Liszt) Polydor 67936 1942
3. Liebesträume No. 3 ‘O Lieb, so lang’, S54 (Liszt) Polydor  67936
4. Mazurka in A minor op.17 n.4 (Chopin) Polydor 68279 1943
5. Von Himmel hoch komm’ ich her (Bach-Rummel) Gramophone P-858 BG-1136-1 1930
6. Für Elise (Beethoven) Polydor 62843
7. Liebestod (Wagner-Liszt) Columbia AX 679 1924
8. Rondo capriccioso op.14 (Mendelssohn) Columbia AX 681 1924
9. Waltz in C sharp minor op.64 n.2 (Chopin) Polydor 68063 1943
10. Waltz in A flat Op. 69 No. 1 (Chopin) Polydor 68064 1943
11. Waltz in D flat Op. 64 No. 1 (Chopin) Gramophone P863 0G 442 1931-03-12
12. Blessed Jesus, here we stand (Bach-Rummel) Radio Suisse Romande, 1948
13. Jesus Christ, Son of God (Bach-Rummel) Radio Suisse Romande, 1948
14. 15. Legend No.2 St. Francis of Paola Walking on the Waves (Liszt) Radio Suisse Romande, 1948
15. 17. Legend No.1 St. Francis of Assisi Preaching to the Birds (Liszt) Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv, 1944
16. Waltz in G flat major op.70 n.1 (Chopin) Polydor 68064 1943
17. Waltz in A flat op.39 n.15 (Brahms) Gramophone P863 OG441-1 1943
18. Mazurka in A minor op.68 n.2 (Chopin) Polydor 68279 1943
19. Walser no 2, op 34, no 2 A-moll (Chopin) Polydor 68063 1943