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LUIGI SILVA (MILAN, ITALY, 11-13-03 – NEW YORK, USA, 11-29-61)

 

 

 

 

Luigi Silva came from a musical family: his father was a voice teacher of some renown and his mother was a Viennese singer. At the age of 5, Silva began taking piano lessons with his father, and started his study of cello three years later. In addition to taking cello lessons with Arturo Bonucci in Bologna, Silva also studied composition with Respighi in Rome, but his small hands and frail health prevented him from being accepted for study with famous masters. Silva received a degree in cello from the Bologna Conservatory, and a master’s degree in music pedagogy (cum laude) in 1921. Silva performed throughout Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. He was cellist in the Rome Opera Orchestra, and won the Boccherini Prize at the First National Contest for young concert artists in Rome in 1933. This may have triggered his lifetime interest in Boccherini’s cello compositions. He was cellist in the Quartetto di Roma, and taught at the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence. In 1939 Silva emigrated with his wife and father to the United States, settled in California and eventually became an American citizen. The family moved to New York in 1940, and from 1941-1949 Silva was head of the cello and chamber music departments at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. From 1949 he taught at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, at the Mannes College of Music, and the Yale University School of Music. He was cellist of the Mannes-Gimpel-Silva Trio. Silva’s great talent rested in his superb ability to teach young people just beginning to play the cello. His special interest in developing the left hand technique of his students probably stemmed from his own problem of having small hands.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

Clara Schumann, Beethoven, The Mannes-Gimpel-Silva Trio – Trio In G Minor, Op. 17 / Trio No. 8 In B Flat Major (Opus Posth.)

Label: Decca – DL 9555

Series: Gold Label Series – DL 9555

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono

Country: US

Released: 1951

Genre: Classical

Style: Romantic

Trio In G Minor, Op 17

Composed By – Clara Schumann

A1 1st Mov’t: Allegro Moderato

A2 2nd Mov’t: Tempo Di Menuetto

A3 3rd Mov’t: Andante

B1 4th Mov’t: Allegretto

Trio No. 8 In B Flat Major (Op. Posth.)

Composed By – Ludwig van Beethoven

B2 Allegretto

Copyright © – Decca Records, Inc.

Cello – Luigi Silva

Ensemble – The Mannes-Gimpel-Silva Trio

Liner Notes – Irving Kolodin

Piano – Leopold Mannes

Violin – Bronislav Gimpel

© 1951

Made in U.S.A.

 

Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, The Mannes Gimpel Silva Trio – Trio No.1 In D Minor, Op.63 / Nocturne In E Flat Major, Op.148

Label: Decca – DL 9604

Series: Gold Label Series – DL 9604

Format: Vinyl, LP

Country: US

Released: 1951

Genre: Classical

A Robert Schumann– Trio No.1 In D Minor, Op.63

B Franz Schubert– Nocturne In E Flat Major, Op.148

Cello – Luigi Silva

Piano – Leopold Mannes

Violin – Bronislaw Gimpel

 

Virgil Thomson, Janssen Symphony Of Los Angeles, Luigi Silva, Werner Janssen – Concerto For Violoncello And Orchestra / The Mother Of Us All Suite For Orchestra

Genre: Classical

Style: Contemporary, Modern

Year: 1951

Concerto For Violoncello And Orchestra

First Movement: Rider On The Plains

Second Movement: Variations On A Southern Hymn

Third Movement: Children’s Games

The Mother Of Us All Suite For Orchestra

Prelude

Cold Weather

Hymns

A Political Meeting