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MORIZ ROSENTHAL (LEMBERG, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY (LATER LWÓW, POLAND, NOW LVIV, UKRAINE) 17 DECEMBER 1862 – NEW YORK CITY, USA 3 SEPTEMBER 1946)

 

 

 

 

Rosenthal was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (later Lwów, Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine) into a Jewish family, where his father was professor at the chief academy. At eight years of age he commenced his piano studies under Galoth (1869–1872). In 1872, Rosenthal became a pupil of Karol Mikuli, Chopin’s pupil and editor, who trained him along more academic lines at Lviv Conservatory. At the age of twelve he became a pupil of Rafael Joseffy in Vienna. His debut occurred in Vienna in 1876. He had immediate success and after a tour of Romania he was made Court Pianist of Romania when he was fourteen years of age. From 1878 to 1879 he studied with Liszt at Weimar and Rome. He was associated with the great Hungarian master until 1886, when Liszt died at Bayreuth. Having the conviction that a well-rounded classical education was necessary in his work as an interpreter, he studied at the Staats Gymnasium in Vienna and at the University, where he was a pupil in philosophy under Von Zimmerman and Brentano and in esthetics under Hanslick. His virtuosity guided by a probing intellect was nonpareil. In 1912 he was made Kammervirtuoso for the Emperor of Austria. As Liszt’s pupil, Rosenthal made appearances in St. Petersburg, Paris, and elsewhere. His general education, however, was not neglected, and in 1880 Rosenthal qualified to take the philosophical course at the University of Vienna. Six years later he resumed his career with the piano, achieving brilliant success in Leipzig, and in Boston, where he made his U.S. debut in 1888, and subsequently in England in 1895. He taught at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1926-1928. From 1939, he taught in his own piano school in New York City, where he died in 1946.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

1. Waltz in C sharp minor Op 64 No 2 (Chopin) Parlophone E17021 21457 May 29, 1929
2. Prelude in C minor Op 28 No 20 (Chopin) Parlophone E17021 21465 June 1, 1929
3. Prelude in C major Op 28 No 1 (Chopin) Parlophone E17021 2-21465 June 1, 1929
4. Prelude in G major Op 28 No 3 (Chopin) Parlophone E17021 21465 June 1, 1929
5. Prelude in E flat major Op 28 No 19 (Chopin) Parlophone E17021 21465 June 1, 1929
6. Waltz in C sharp minor Op 64 No 2 (Chopin) Parlophone P9520 21692 April 28, 1930
7. Waltz in E minor Op posth (Chopin) Parlophone P9520 21693 April 28, 1930
8. Papillons (Rosenthal) (Chopin) Parlophone 59521 21704 May 3, 1930
9. Mazurka in C sharp minor Op 63 No 3 (Chopin) Parlophone 21703 May 3, 1930
10. Étude in G flat major Op 10 No 5 (Chopin) Parlophone P9570 21783 March 3, 1931
11. Mazurka in C sharp minor Op 63 No 3 (Chopin) Parlophone 21783 March 3, 1931
12. Mazurka in C sharp minor Op 63 No 3 take 2 (Chopin) Parlophone 21783 March 3, 1931
13. Étude in G flat major Op 10 No 5 (Black Keys) (Chopin) Parlophone 21783 March 3, 1931
14. Étude in C major Op 10 No 1 (Chopin) Parlophone P9570 21784 March 3, 1931
15. Mazurka in G major Op 67 No 1 (Chopin) Parlophone 21784 March 3, 1931
16. Reflets dans l’eau (from Images Book I) (Debussy) Parlophone F57063 21460 May 29, 1929
17. Reflets dans l’eau 29 May 1929 (Debussy) Parlophone E11145 21460 May 29, 1929
18. Triana (from Iberia Book 2) (Albeniz) Parlophone 57063 21461 May 29, 1929
19. A Musical Snuffbox Op 32 (Liadov) Parlophone 59523 21705  May 3, 1930
20. Prelude in B flat major Op 46 No 1 (Liadov) Parlophone 21705 May 3, 1930
21. Carnaval de Vienne (Rosenthal) (Humoresque on Themes of Johann Strauss) Parlophone P9542 21706, 21707 May 3, 1930
22. Fantasy on themes from Johann Strauss (Rosenthal) (Blue Danube, Joys of Life [Freut euch des Lebens] and Fledermaus) Parlophone P9562 21785, 21786 March 6, 1931
23. Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Op 11 (Chopin) March 1 & November 26, 1930, March 2, 1931, with Frieder Weissmann and the Berlin State Opera Orchestra

Allegro maestoso B12451 B12452, B12453, 133019, 133020, 133021, 133026

Romanza: Larghetto P9558, 21695, 21696

Rondo: Vivace P9559, 21697, 21698