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Price: $400.00 |
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MINT CONDITION & NEAR MINT CONDITION |
RAOUL PUGNO/ANNA LANGENHAM-HIRZEL - PIANISTS |
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Autographed musical quotations by the French and Swiss pianists on both sides of a 7” x 9” double-weight album leaf, 1898. Pugno pens a 2 bar musical quotation from his piano solo “Serenade a la lune” 19 November, 1898 and Langenham-Hirzel pens 4 bars from the 1st movement of Ludvig Schytte’s Piano Concerto, op. 28, 5 Geneva, February, 1898. Raoul Pugno (1852-1914) remains a seminal figure in the World of 19th Century pianists, a pupil of Georges Mathias, he was known for his elegance and virtuostic dexterity. His “Serenade to the Moon” remains available in print, though not one of his most ambitious pieces, one of his best known. Pugno also recorded the piece. Anna Langenham-Hirzel (1874-1951) was a Swiss born pianist and well known pedagogue. A pupil of both Yesipova and Leschetizky, she performed the Schytte Piano Concerto for the first time in Vienna in 1897. Schytte, a Danish composer was a friend of Leschetizky and he often encouraged his pupils to play the composer’s works. Langenham-Hirzel (or vice-versa) became a well known piano pedagogue at the Conservatories in Munich and Basel, where he pupils included: conductor Hermann Abendroth, composer Werner Egk, pianists Renata Borgattti, Hans Leygraf and Käbi Laretei and harpsichodist Edith Picht-Axenfeld. A most interesting and scarce pairing. Decorative and perfect for framing with the postcard portrait of Pugno! |
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