Description

WILHELM BACKHAUS (MARCH 26, 1884, LEIPZIG, GERMANY — JULY 5, 1969, VILLACH, AUSTRIA)

 

 

 

 

Backhaus studied piano in Leipzig and in Frankfurt am Main. His first concert appearance took place when he was eight years of age, and in 1905 he won the Rubinstein prize in Paris. He held teaching appointments at the Royal Manchester College of Music (1905), at Sondershausen (1907), and at the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia (1925). After World War II, he settled in Lugano, Switz., but continued to tour and make recordings. His style was described as severe and articulate, yet not without warmth and the most scrupulous regard for the score.

 

 

TRACKLIST

  

 

6667 DUO-ART PICK-MANGIAGALLI – La danse d’Olaf, Op. 33, No. 2

6684 DUO-ART R. STRAUSS-BACKHAUS – Serenade (Ständchen), Op. 17, No. 2

6698 DUO-ART DELIBES-DOHNANYI – Waltz from the ballet “Naila”

6825 DUO-ART MOZART-BACKHAUS – Serenade from the Opera “Don Giovanni”

6848 DUO-ART CHOPIN-BACKHAUS – Piano Concerto No.1, Op.11 – #2 mvt., Romance

6958 DUO-ART SCHUMANN-LISZT – Widmung (Dedication)

6968 MENDELSSOHN-BACKHAUS -Piano Concerto No. l, Op. 25, g-2nd Mvt.

6981 MENDELSSOHN-BACKHAUS -Piano Concerto No. l, Op. 25, g -3rd Mvt.

7010 DUO-ART MENDELSSOHN – Wedding March; Elfin Chorus, Op.61 “Midsummer”

7058 DUO-ART KREISLER-RACHMANINOFF- Liebesleid (Love’s Sorrow)

7065 DUO-ART BEETHOVEN – Piano Sonata, Op. 13, c “Pathétique” lst Mvt.

7301 DUO-ART WAGNER-HUTCHESON – Prelude from the Opera “Die Meistersinger”

7391 DUO-ART WAGNER-LISZT – Paraphrase on the March from Opera “Tannhäuser”