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The piano was evidently destroyed during the Second World War. Piano scholar Edwin Good (1986; see References below) has examined a very similar Streicher piano made in 1870, with the goal of finding out more about Brahms's instrument. This 1870 Streicher has leather (not felt) hammers, a rather light metal frame (with just two tension bars), a ...
[3] [1] Harris took piano lessons from his mother at the age of four. [3] His mother, a church pianist, asked him if he was interested in playing church music or jazz, and he chose the latter. [ 3 ] In his teens, he performed for dances at his high school, local clubs and ballrooms.
Louise Farrenc (Professor of Piano, 1842–1873) César Franck (Professor of Organ, 1872–1890) Eugene Gigout (Professor of Organ, 1911–1925) Alexandre Guilmant (Professor of Organ, 1896–1911) Antoine Marmontel (piano) Yves Nat (pianist, 1890–1956) Isidor Philipp (Professor of Piano, 1893–1934) Pierre Sancan (Professor of Piano, 1956 ...
The arrival of the phonograph in the early 1900s and commercial radio in the 1920s exerted steadily growing pressure on piano makers. Total U.S. sales for the industry peaked around 300,000 in 1924, representing roughly $100 million in revenue ($1,780,000,000 today [5]) [6] and decreased steadily thereafter.
Piano 5 Gave his first public recital at age five, became a music professor at age twelve. Elsie Hall: 1877 Piano 6 Prize winner, New South Wales 1883. "The Antipodean Phenomenon", Europe 1880s. Clara Haskil: 1895 Piano 5 Gave her first concert in Vienna in 1902. Otto Hegner 1876 Piano 8 Caused a sensation in London in 1888. [18] Cory Henry ...
Gordon Charles Watson was born in Parkes, New South Wales in 1921. He served with the Australian Imperial Force for four years in World War II. [1]He studied piano under Laurence Godfrey Smith in Sydney, and later had advanced studies at Mills College, Oakland, California with Egon Petri (piano), [2] [3] [4] and Darius Milhaud (composition).
Mom's house had been the center of gatherings for relatives and friends who enjoyed her Italian cooking of manicottis, chicken cutlets and baked goods and then convened around her restored 1936 ...
Gladys Mills (née Jordan; 29 August 1918 – 24 February 1978), [1] known as Mrs. Mills, was an English pianist who was active in the 1960s and 1970s, and who released many records. Her repertoire included many sing-along and party tunes made popular in the music hall, generally in a stride piano technique, often in a tack piano style. [2]