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TOSTA DI BENICI (AUGUSTA BENNICH) (1867-1961)

 

 

 

 

Tosta de Benici was the stage name of the Swedish pianist Augusta Bennich. When she was 15 years old, Tosta started studying piano with professor Hilda Tegerström from the Academy of Music. Tosta de Benici worked a lot in England. Henry Wood, who started the Proms concerts, met her in 1899 and was surprised that she was not better known. Tosta de Benici then participated in more than 20 Proms concerts between 1899 and 1917, with music by Liszt (first piano concerto etc.), Theodor Leschetizky, Grieg and Saint-Saëns (second piano concerto) – as well as Christian Sinding, by whom she played several works at the Proms concerts. Tosta de Benici spent the summers in the Arvika area, with his brother Gustaf Bennich, who was the manager of Jössefor’s mill and an avid cellist. Tosta and Gustaf’s mother Emelie loved music and their father, Axel Bennich, was a Riksdagman who was ennobled by Oscar II in 1860 and later was a member and even president of the King. Musical Academy in Stockholm. In 1913 Tosta de Benici bought a plot of land in Pyrford, Surrey in England. The following year, a Neo-Georgian style house by architect Reginald Bloomfield.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

2619 BACKER-GRONDAHL – Song of Summer, Op. 45, No. 3

2620 CHOPIN – Etude, Op. 25, No. 7, c#

2621 CHOPIN – Etude, Op. 10, No. 5 “Black Key”

2622 CHOPIN – Prelude, Op. 28, No. 18, f

2624 GRIEG – Erotik, Op. 43, No. 5 “Lyric Pieces”

2627 KJERULF – Berceuse (Cradle Song), Op. 4

2630 LISZT – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11, a Lento à capriccio

2631 PADEREWSKI – Cracovienne fantastique, Op. 14, No. 6

2632 SAINT-SAENS – Romance sans paroles (Romance without Words), b

2635 SIBELIUS – Romance, Op. 24, No. 9, Db

2637 SINDING – Frühlingsrauschen (Rustle of Spring) Op. 32, No. 3, Db

2638 SINDING – Serenade, Op. 33, No. 4