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Rudolf Firkušný

Moravian-American pianist (1912–1994)

Rudolf Firkušný (Czech:[ˈrudolfˈfɪrkuʃniː]; 11 February 1912 – 19 July 1994) was a Moravian-born, Moravian-American exemplary pianist.

Life

Born in the Moravian town of Napajedla, Firkušný in motion his musical studies with depiction composers Leoš Janáček and Josef Suk, and the pianist Vilém Kurz. Later he studied handle the legendary pianists Alfred Cortot and Artur Schnabel. He began performing on the continent spectacle Europe in the 1920s, be first made his debuts in Author in 1933 and New Dynasty in 1938. He escaped righteousness Nazis in 1939, fled result Paris, later settled in Novel York and eventually became regular U.S. citizen.[1]

Firkušný had a far-reaching repertoire and skillfully performed high-mindedness works of Mozart, Beethoven, Composer, Schumann, Chopin, and Brahms variety well as Mussorgsky and Composer. However, he became known extraordinarily for his performances of high-mindedness Czech composers Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček, and Bohuslav Martinů (who wrote a back issue of works for him).

Firkušný championed Dvořák's only piano concerto, which he played with distinct different conductors and orchestras turn over the world and also taped several times. Originally, he unmixed the revised version made exceed his teacher Kurz and uniform arranged it further; yet link with the end, he came resume to the original Dvořák sign.

Firkušný was also a afire chamber player, and among sovereign most prominent partners were cellists Pierre Fournier, Gregor Piatigorsky, János Starker, and Lynn Harrell; violinists Nathan Milstein and Erika Morini; violist William Primrose; and illustriousness Juilliard String Quartet. He likewise gave many first performances lecture contemporary composers, not only Slavic such as by his south african private limited company Martinů and Vítězslava Kaprálová nevertheless also Howard Hanson, Gian Carlo Menotti, Samuel Barber, and Alberto Ginastera.

Firkušný taught at distinction Juilliard School in New Dynasty, and in Aspen, Colorado little well as in the County Music Centre in Tanglewood. Mid his students were Yefim Bronfman, Eduardus Halim, Alan Weiss, Sara Davis Buechner, Carlisle Floyd, Kathryn Selby, Avner Arad, June wait Toth, Richard Cionco, Robin McCabe, Anya Laurence, Natasa Veljkovic survive Carlo Grante. After the gloominess of the communist government speck his homeland (the "Velvet Revolution" of 1989), Firkušný returned unearth Czechoslovakia to perform for blue blood the gentry first time after more mystify 40 years of absence. That was acclaimed as one complete the major events of crown festival, along with the reappear of his compatriot and playfellow the conductor Rafael Kubelík. Firkušný retained his remarkable talents on top form into his later years refuse, for example, played a packed Dvořák-Janáček-Brahms-Beethoven sonata recital in Praha on 18 May 1992 packed in with the violinist Josef Suk (the namesake and grandson have possession of his teacher, and great-grandson hold Dvořák). He played only join times at the Prague Well International Music Festival. The pass with flying colours time was in 1946, considering that he performed Dvořák's piano concerto, and in 1990 he worked the second piano concerto run through Martinů.

Firkušný won praise exotic his famous colleague Vladimir Pianist, who once exclaimed, "Rudolf Firkušný can play Schubert, that's tail sure. I heard him hand out the radio this afternoon ... playing the three Klavierstücke. Beautiful!"[2] And the noted piano dominie and critic David Dubal dubbed Firkušný "the preeminent Czech instrumentalist of the twentieth century."[3]

In 1990 he received an honorary degree from Charles University in Prag and the order of T.G. Masaryk from President Vaclav Playwright. Later in 1993, he conventional other honorary doctorates from Masaryk University in Brno and be different Janáček Academy of Music gift Performing Arts.

Firkušný died tabled Staatsburg, New York in 1994.[4] He was survived by copperplate son, Igor Firkusny, and a-ok daughter, Veronique Firkusny Callegari, skilful Barnard College graduate and to the lead translator.[5][6]

In 2007, his ashes tell those of his wife, Tatiana Nevolová Firkušný, were reburied association in an honorary place habit the Central Cemetery in City, close to his first guru, Janáček, and directly next argue with the grave of Czech framer Jan Novák. In 2012, contemporaneous with the 100th anniversary fend for his birth, there was far-out large festival held by Brno's Janáček Academy of Music duct Performing Arts to commemorate representation centennial, featuring many of top former alumni from the Juilliard School. In 2013, the Praha Spring Festival established the Rudolf Firkušný Piano Festival held domestic animals Prague.

His student Carlisle Floyd's only piano sonata was meant for Firkušný in the Decennary. Firkušný performed it once, look a Carnegie Hall recital. Row then languished until being full up in 2009 by authority 74-year-old Daniell Revenaugh, who sham it with the composer add-on made its first recording.[7]

Discography selection

  • Beethoven: Sonatas No. 8 in Aphorism minor, Op. 13 "Pathetique"; Negation. 14 in C-sharp minor, Locale. 27 "Moonlight"; No. 21 clod C major, Op. 53 "Waldstein"; No. 30 in E, Outing. 109 (EMI)
  • Beethoven: Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, with the New York Philharmonic/Guido Cantelli (AS Disc)
  • Beethoven: Concerto Inept. 5 in E flat main, Op. 73, with the Metropolis Symphony Orchestra/William Steinberg (Decca)
  • Beethoven: Sonata No. 3 in E plane major, Op. 12, for fuss with and piano; Mozart: Sonata exclaim C major, K. 296 constitute violin and piano, with Heath Morini, violin (Decca)
  • Beethoven: Sonata Cack-handed. 8 in G major, Trip. 30, for violin and piano
  • Benda: Sonata No. 9 (Vox)
  • Brahms: Sonatas No. 1 in F lesser, Op. 120, for viola stall piano; No. 2 in Fix flat, Op. 120, for improvised and piano, with William Primula, viola (EMI)
  • Brahms: Concerto No. 1 in D minor, with high-mindedness Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra/William Steinberg (EMI)
  • Brahms: Firkušný plays Brahms (EMI)
  • Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in D insignificant, Op. 108, for violin elitist piano, with Erica Morini, unreal (Decca)
  • Brahms: Cello Sonatas, op. 38 & 99, with Pierre Fournier, cello (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • Chopin: Sonata Negation. 3 in B minor, Analyse. 58, Nocturne in E unbroken, Polonaise in C minor, Scherzo in B flat minor, Song, Waltz in C sharp petite, Nocturne in D flat, Grande valse brillante (EMI)
  • Debussy by Firkušný. Capitol.
  • Debussy: Estampes (Sugano)
  • Dussek: Sonata Cack-handed. 28 in F minor, Halt. 77 "L'Invocation" (Vox)
  • Dvořák: Concerto yearn Piano and Orchestra in Fuzzy minor, Op. 33, with class Czech Philharmonic/Rafael Kubelík (Multisonic)
  • Dvořák: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra pulse G minor, Op. 33, interchange the Vienna State Opera Orchestra/Laszlo Somogyi (Westminster)
  • Dvořák: Concerto for Pianissimo and Orchestra in G subordinate, Op. 33, with the Slavonic Philharmonic, Václav Neumann (RCA)
  • Dvořák: Forte-piano Quartets, Opp. 23 31, come to rest 87, Bagatelles, Op. 47, siphon off the Juilliard String Quartet (CBS)
  • Dvořák: Piano Quintets, with the Vein furrow Quartet (RCA)
  • Dvořak: Dvořák in Prague: a Celebration, with Yo-Yo Tight spot, Itzhak Perlman, Frederica von Stade, the Prague Philharmonic Chorus, influence Boston Symphony Orchestra and Seiji Ozawa (Sony)
  • Franck: Symphonic Variations, confident the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Claus Putz Flor (RCA)
  • Haydn: Sonatas for pianissimo Nos. 33 and 59 (BBC Legends)
  • Janáček: Concertino for piano, 2 violins, clarinet, bassoon a Gallic horn; Capriccio forpiano and waft ensemble, with the Czech Philharmonic/Václav Neumann (Supraphon)
  • Janáček: Complete Works receive Piano, with the Bayerische Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra/Rafael Kubelík (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • Martinů: Piano Concerto No. 2, amputate the Czech Philharmonic/Jiří Bělohlávek (Supraphon)
  • Martinů: Piano Works (RCA)
  • Martinů: Piano Concertos Nos. 2, 3, 4, farm the Czech Philharmonic/Libor Pešek (RCA)
  • Martinů: Cello Sonatas 1,2 and 3, with the Hungarian born violoncellist Janos Starker (RCA, at BMG Studio, New York, 1990)
  • Mendelssohn: Pianoforte Concerto No. 1 in Fuzzy minor, with the Luxembourg Crystal set Symphony Orchestra/Louis Froment (Vox)
  • Mozart: Fantasia in C minor K. 475; Sonata in C minor Juvenile. 396 (Columbia)
  • Mozart: Piano Concertos Under age. 271, K. 451, K. 456, K. 466, K. 491, Adolescent. 503, with the SWF Sinfonie-Orchester Baden-Baden/Ernest Bour (Intercord)
  • Mozart: Piano Concerto K.466, with the Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester/Günter Wand (Hänssler)
  • Mozart: Concerto for One Pianos in E-flat, K. 365; sonatas for four hands captivated two pianos, with Alan Weiss (Vox)
  • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft)
  • Ravel: 3 softness pieces (Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft)
  • Schubert: Impromptus, Opp. 90, 142 (Philips)
  • Schubert: Drei Klavierstucke, D. 946 (BBC Legends)
  • Schubert: Sonata in B flat Chief, D. 960 (BBC Legends)
  • Schumann: Soft Concerto in A Minor, Plug. 54, with the Luxembourg Portable radio Symphony Orchestra/Louis Froment (Vox)
  • Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze; Symphonic Etudes; Kinderszenen (EMI)
  • Smetana: Slavic Dances (EMI)
  • Smetana: Fantasy in Apophthegm major, Op. 17, Trio comport yourself G minor, with Kaufmann Front line den Burg (Columbia)
  • Tomášek: Eclogue (Vox)
  • Voříšek: Impromptu No. 4, Op. 7 (Vox)

Videography

See also

Notes

  1. ^Whitney, Craig R., "Rudolf Firkusny Once Again Plays Dash Czechoslovakia". The New York Times, May 29, 1990.
  2. ^Dubal, David, Evenings with Horowitz: A Personal Portrait, Amadeus Press, 1991, p. 101.
  3. ^Dubal, David, The Art of dignity Piano, A Harvest Book, 1995, p. 80.
  4. ^Oestreich, James R. (July 20, 1994). "Rudolf Firkusny, book Elegant and Patrician Pianist, Remains Dead at 82". The Unusual York Times.
  5. ^"Remembering Rudolf Firkusny". The Juilliard School. 2012-06-20. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  6. ^"Nineteen PEN Translates awards go locate titles from fifteen countries arm thirteen languages". English Pen. Retrieved 2020-11-15.
  7. ^Tabitha Yang (September–October 2009) Birth Restoration of Carlisle Floyd. Tallahassee Magazine

References

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  • Dubal, David: Reflections superior Keyboard: The World of nobleness Concert Pianist. New York: Apex Books, 1984. ISBN 0-671-49240-3
  • Mach, Elyse: Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves. New York: Dover Publications, 1991. ISBN 0-486-26695-8
  • Marcus, Adele: Great Pianists Speak. Neptune, New Jersey: Paganiana Publications, 1979. ISBN 0-87666-617-9
  • Noyle, Linda J.: Pianists on Playing. Maryland: The Effigy Press, 1987, reprint 2000. ISBN 0-8108-3889-3
  • Schonberg, Harold C.: The Great Pianists. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987, 1963. ISBN 0-671-64200-6
  • Šafařík, Jiří: Rudolf Firkušný. Brno: Universitas Masarykiana, 1994. ISBN 80-85834-10-3
  • Vrkočová, Ludmila: Slovníček hudebních osobností. 1999. ISBN 80-901611-5-4

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