Moriz rosenthal biography of albert
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Alberto Jonás
Spanish musician, conductor, and teacher (–)
Alberto Jonás (June 8, – November 10, ) was a Spanish pianist, composer, and piano pedagogue. Although not much is known about his life, as a pianist he was regarded as a virtuoso on the level of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Moriz Rosenthal, Leopold Godowsky, Josef Hofmann, and Josef Lhévinne[citation needed]. He also ranked among the greatest and most sought-after keyboard pedagogues of the s and '30s.
Life and early career (Madrid, –)
[edit]Born in Madrid to German parents Julius Jonas, a businessman, and Doris Sachse, his musical talents were recognized at an early age. King Alfonso XII of Spain received the young child in a private audience at the Royal Palace of Madrid in and Jonás was immediately hailed as a prodigy. He initially studied at the Madrid Royal Conservatory with Manuel Mendizábal (–) in piano (Mendizábal had been Isaac Albéniz's piano teacher) and Ciriaco Olave in organ, graduating at th
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For all of the brilliant talents that flocked to Liszt’slast classes at Weimar, he was particularly proud of Eugene (or Eugen) d’Albert.Liszt called him ‘our young lion’ or ‘Albertus Magnus’ was another husdjur name that Liszt gave him. He was the son of a French father and German mother.
In he went to London to study beneath Ernst Pauer and Sir Arthur Sullivan who was his harmony and counterpoint teacher. He would bring rims and rims of his composition to Sir Arthur, and he would say ‘Good lord my boy, are you expecting me to go through all of this?’ This had put a sour taste in Eugene and perhaps ended the study at Weimer and went to Vienna.
He was half German to begin with and after a few years in Germany, he considered han själv a full German. He wrote to a German paper as early as when he was only twenty years old correcting a biographical note:
DEAR SIR:
‘…permit me to correct a few errors I find there. Above all things I scorn the title ‘’English Pianist.’’ Unfo
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Mr. Moriz Rosenthal stands now, as he did when last he was in this country eight years ago, for the extremest development of the technique of the piano. In everything that the wizards of modern technical skill have been able to exploit upon the keyboard of the instrument, in all that they have been able to make the human hand, wrist, arm, achieve, he stands among the chief wizards. It seemed, when he was here before, that he had no further to go. If he has moved forward in these eight years it has been in this direction. If he has added to the sum of his powers, it is in the way of playing faster or louder or softer or with more brilliancy, if not with more certainty. It is not in the way of penetrating more deeply into the heart of great music or of laying bare more of the mysteries and ecstasies of beauty.
Richard Aldrich ()He has an astonishing technique and plays too humanly for a machine, and too mechanically for an artist.
Ferruccio Busoni ()Setting asid