Mozart Piano Sonata No.16 in B flat major, K.570
2° PART
Piano: Artur Schnabel
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Mozart Piano Sonata No.16 in B flat major, K.570
2° PART
Piano: Artur Schnabel
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1° PART
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VahA6Y_YdIQ
2° PART
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXgYPrZvQS0
3° PART
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcAbAhPNfVs
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Beethoven Diabelli Variations
1° PART (part1)
Piano: Artur Schnabel
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1° PART (part1
Beethoven Diabelli Variations
1° PART (part1)
Piano: Artur Schnabel
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1° PART (part1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcZ69jqczRk
1° PART (part2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPTIZlzBdgA
2° PART (part1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXwb5BGENc
2° PART (part2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHkCGkkkLTs
3° PART (part1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvUExXGHtlM
3° PART (part2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU_iJLk30Mw
4° PART (part1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkfHX9k1tbI
4° PART (part2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GLllKwqFAg
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Filmed in 1937 by Karol Liszniewski in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Arthur Schnabel (April 17, 18
Filmed in 1937 by Karol Liszniewski in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Arthur Schnabel (April 17, 1882 -- August 15, 1951) was a classical pianist, who also composed and taught. Schnabel was renowned for his seriousness as a musician, avoiding anything resembling pure technical bravura. He was said to have tended to disregard his own technical limitations in pursuit of his musical ideals. However, Schnabel is widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, whose vitality, profundity and spiritual penetration in his playing of works by Beethoven and Schubert, in particular, have seldom if ever been surpassed.
Born in Lipnik, Poland, Schnabel studied piano from the age of seven in Vienna under Theodor Leschetizky who said to him "You will never be a pianist. You are a musician." Schnabel took these words to heart, and rather than playing the showy virtuoso pieces by composers like Franz Liszt which were popular in the late 19th century, he chose to concentrate on Germanic classics by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Later, Schnabel also studied composition under Eusebius Mandyczewski who was a friend of Johannes Brahms.
In 1900, Schnabel moved to Berlin where he began his career as a professional pianist. He gained some fame thanks to orchestral concerts he gave under the conductor Artur Nikisch as well as playing in chamber music and accompanying his future wife, the contralto Therese Behr, in lieder. It seems that Behr had some influence over Schnabel's repertoire, encouraging him to explore the sonatas of Schubert and the works of Brahms.
Following World War I, Schnabel toured widely, visiting the United States, Russia and England. From 1925 he taught at the Berlin State Academy where his masterclasses brought him great renown.
Schnabel was known for championing the then-neglected sonatas of Schubert and, even more so, Beethoven. At that time, Beethoven's piano music was little played and largely unappreciated by the public. While on a tour of Spain, Schnabel wrote to his wife saying that during a performance of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations he had begun to feel sorry for the audience. "I am the only person here who is enjoying this, and I get the money; they pay and have to suffer," he wrote. Schnabel did much to popularize Beethoven's music, giving the first complete cycle of his piano sonatas (that is, he played every piano sonata by Beethoven in a series of concerts) and also making the first recording of them all, completing the set in 1935. This set of recordings has never been out of print, and is considered by many to be the touchstone of Beethoven sonata interpretations, though occasional shortcomings in finger technique mar his performances of fast movements (Rachmaninoff is supposed to have referred to him as "the great adagio pianist"). He also recorded all the Beethoven piano concertos.
Despite his playing repertoire almost never leaving the works of Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart and Brahms, almost all of his compositions (none of which are in the active repertoire) are atonal. Schnabel left Berlin in 1933 after the Nazi Party took control. He lived in England for a time while giving master classes at Tremezzo on Lake Como in Italy, before moving to America in 1939. In 1944, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. There he took a teaching post at the University of Michigan, returning to Europe at the end of World War II. He continued to give concerts on both sides of the Atlantic until the end of his life; his list of compositions eventually included symphonies, a piano concerto and five string quartets amongst various smaller works. And he continued to make records, though he was never very fond of the whole studio process. He died in Axenstein, Switzerland.
Music on this home movie is Schnabel playing an excerpt from Beethoven's Sonata No. 14 In C Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 -- Moonlight and an excerpt Sonata No. 23 In F Minor, Op. 57 -- Appassionata. Available at:
http://www.amazon.com/Schnabel-plays-Beethoven-Named-Sonatas /dp/B00004U35D
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Cubanischer Tanz
Barnabas von Geczy mit seinem Orchester
Electrola E.G. 6227 mx. (ORA 26
Cubanischer Tanz
Barnabas von Geczy mit seinem Orchester
Electrola E.G. 6227 mx. (ORA 2603)
Berlin, 1938
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Rhythmus der Freude (There's a new world)
Adalbert Lutter mit seinem Tanzorchester
Tele
Rhythmus der Freude (There's a new world)
Adalbert Lutter mit seinem Tanzorchester
Telefunken Musikus M 6359 mx. 22016
Berlin, 1934
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This tango (Polish title "To samo niebo") was composed by a German composer Joe Rixner ("B
This tango (Polish title "To samo niebo") was composed by a German composer Joe Rixner ("Blauer Himmel"). It was very famous in Europe in last years before 1939. (In Germany it was played by most of the dance bands, e.g. Barnabas von Geczy, Adalbert Lutter).
Here it is performed by the Polish Syrena Rekord Dance Orchestra conducted by Iwo Wesby. Refrain is sung by one of the most popular broadcast & record singers as well as operetta artist, Stefan Witas. He became very active since 1937, after he won the prize as the third most popular singer in Poland (after Fogg and Faliszewski) in the Polish Radio Singers' competition.
The photographs are the views of the non-existing pre-war Warsaw. Recording: Syrena-Electro, 1937
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