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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Prior to the radio, listening to music was limited to live performances and the skill of the teacher to play music, specifically on the piano. [46] The impact of the radio in the 1930s can similarly be compared to some of today's technology, such as iPods, compact discs, and computers. Technology has become much more widely available in the ...
Mabel Lander (1882–1955), British pianist and teacher, piano tutor to the Royal Family; Ethel Leginska (1886–1970), British pianist, conductor and composer; Kate Loder (1825–1904), composer and pianist; Iris Loveridge (1917–2000), English classical pianist specializing in British contemporary music; Moura Lympany (1916–2005), concert ...
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Piano Sonata No. 1 (1910, 1917–1920) Piano Sonata No. 2 (1919) Piano Sonata in E-flat (1921) Piano Sonata No. 3 (1926) Piano Sonata No. 4 (1932) Romantic, Impressionist: Emile-Robert Blanchet: 1877: 1943: Swiss: Sergei Bortkiewicz: 1877: 1952: Ukrainian: York Bowen: 1884: 1961: English: Romantic: Frank Bridge: 1912: 1941: English: Late ...