BENNO MOISEIWITSCH, PIANIST, SIGNED PAGE WITH NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

Description: BENNO MOISEIWITSCH / PIANISTSIGNED PAGE WITH NEWSPAPER ARTICLE AND PICTURE This signed page by the great Russian /British pianist, Benno Moiseiwitsch is in good condition. The included article presents Moiseiwitsch to the American public for this first appearance in the United States. Moiseiwitsch made his debut in London in 1908, and since that day, the great pianst began touring throughout Europe and all over the world. He appeared with almost every important conductor, in every important concert hall and with every prestigious conductor. The article presents pictures of Moiseiwitsch and Gregor Piatigorsky, the great Russian cellist with whom he appeared for their first concert in Philadelphia. From Wikipedia: Benno Moiseiwitsch CBE (22 February 1890 – 9 April 1963) was a Russian-born British pianist.Moiseiwitsch was born in Odessa, Russian Empire, in present-day Ukraine, and began his studies at age seven with Dmitry Klimov at the Odessa Music Academy. He won the Anton Rubinstein Prize when he was just nine years old. He studied with Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna from 1904 to 1908, then joined his own family in England, making his English debut at Reading in 1908, his London debut the following year.[1] While in Dublin during the war he met another Leschetizky student, Mabel Lander, and they began plans to establish a piano school together in London that would use the Leschetizky method.[2] But the plans had to be abandoned due to Moiseiwitsch's increasingly heavy international concert schedule.[3] He toured the United States (first in 1919), Australia, India, Japan, and South America. Moiseiwitsch was invited by Director Josef Hofmann to teach at the Curtis Institute of Music in 1927. He settled in England and took British citizenship in 1937.Moiseiwitsch was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1946 for his services to music during the Second World War, having performed hundreds of recitals for servicemen and charities.He married Daisy Kennedy, an Australian concert violinist, and had two daughters, Sandra and the set designer, Tanya Moiseiwitsch. He and his second wife Anita had a son, noted New Zealand National Radio broadcaster Boris Moiseiwitsch.He was a friend of Nikolai Medtner and commissioned the Piano Concerto No. 3 "Ballade" (1940–43).[4] Like his friend Mark Hambourg he was a member of the Savage Club.[5] He was also a skilled wrestler, and arranged several friendly matches with the critic Ralph Hill, also a wrestling enthusiast.[6]Playing style[edit]Moiseiwitsch was particularly known[7] for his interpretations of the late Romantic repertoire, especially the works of Sergei Rachmaninoff (who was an admirer of his playing and referred to Moiseiwitsch as his "spiritual heir"[8]) and Robert Schumann, whose piano music gave Moiseiwitsch "more emotional and spiritual satisfaction than anyone else."[9] At the piano, Moiseiwitsch was noted for his elegance, poetry, lyrical phrasing, brilliance, rhythmic freedom, and relaxed virtuosity.He made recordings for His Master's Voice (now EMI) starting in the 78RPM shellac era, continuing with long-playing records and into the early stereo era. His distinctive style can be heard in his recording of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the Barcarolle, Ballade No. 4 and Nocturne, Op. 62 of Frédéric Chopin. In 1950 critic and musicologist Irving Kolodin said about the Ballade in F minor of Chopin played by Moiseiwitsch: "A featherweight touch in the opening section of this work, an apt feeling for its "once upon a time" narrative quality give Moiseiwitsch pre-eminence among present day interpreters...", thus summing up the sensitivity of the playing by Benno Moiseiwitsch.[10] He worked meticulously and amicably as a chamber musician, including in Rachmaninoff's Trio Élégiaque and Cello Sonata in G minor. American critic Harold C. Schonberg praised Moiseiwitsch's formidable technique and free approach to the music, adding that such freedom was "always tempered by impeccable musicality."[11] ABOVE LISTED SHIPPING COST FOR UNITED STATES ONLYINTERNATIONAL PURCHASERS SHOULD CONTACT SELLER FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PURCHASING

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