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TERESA CARREÑO (DEC. 22, 1853, CARACAS, VENEZUELA – JUNE 12, 1917, NEW YORK CITY)

She was given her first piano lessons by her father, Manuel Antonio Carreño, a politician and talented amateur pianist. Exiled because of a revolution, the family settled in New York in 1862; there Carreño studied with Louis Moreau Gottschalk. She next spent four years in Paris as a pupil of Georges Mathias and Anton Rubinstein, after which she embarked upon a long and highly successful concert career. At various times she composed works for the piano as well as a string quartet and the Petite danse tsigane for orchestra; developed a mezzo-soprano voice of sufficient calibre to enable her to appear as an opera singer; and, with the second of her four husbands, Giovanni Tagliapietra, a baritone, organized and directed an opera company in Caracas. Her best known student was Edward MacDowell, whom she encouraged in composition. Her third husband was the pianist Eugène d’Albert. Her first husband, whom she married in 1873, was Emile Sauret, a violinist; her fourth husband (married 1902) was Arturo Tagliapietra, a brother of her second husband. Over the course of her 54-year concert career, she became an internationally renowned virtuoso pianist and was often referred to as the “Valkyrie of the Piano.”

TRACKLIST

1. Ballade No. 1, Op. 23, g (Chopin) Welte Mignon 367
2. Ballade No. 3, Op. 47, Ab (Chopin) Welte Mignon 369
3. By the Seashore, Concert Etude, Op. 17 (Smetana) Welte-Mignon 370
4. Fantasia, Op. 17, C (Schumann) Welte-Mignon 361
5. Fantasia, Op. 17, C (Schumann) Welte-Mignon 362
6. Fantasia, Op. 17, C (Schumann) Welte-Mignon 363
7. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, Db (Liszt) Welte-Mignon 365
8. Mi Teresita – Little Waltz, D (Carreño) Welte-Mignon 371
9. Nocturne, Op. 37, No. 2, G (Chopin) Welte-Mignon 364
10. Nocturne, Op. 48, No. 1, c (Chopin) Welte-Mignon 366
11. Piano Sonata, Op. 53, C “Waldstein” 1st mvt. (Beethoven) Welte-Mignon 372
12. Piano Sonata, Op. 53, C “Waldstein” 2nd  & 3rd mvts. (Beethoven) Welte-Mignon 373
13. Soireés de Viennes (Vienna Evenings) No. 6, a (Schubert-Liszt) Welte Mignon 360
14. Sonetto 47 del Petrarca, Db (Annees de Pelerinage – 2nd Yr.Italy,, #4) (Liszt) Welte-Mignon 368