Arthur Friedheim

Arthur Friedheim (1912)

Arthur Friedheim ( Russian Артур Фридхайм ; born October 14 ^{. Jul} / 26. October  1859 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 19th October 1932 ) was a Russian-German pianist and composer.

Friedheim began his musical training at the age of eight and already performed in the following years. a. with John Field's Piano Concerto in A flat major and Carl Maria von Weber's concert piece. He then studied with Anton Rubinstein before becoming a pupil of Franz Liszt .

He worked in Paris, London, Munich, Vienna, Berlin and Leipzig and moved to the USA in 1915. Here he was twice offered the direction of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , which he turned down both times in favor of his pianistic career. From 1921 he taught in Toronto. Colin McPhee and Rildia Bee Cliburn , mother of pianist Van Cliburn, were among his students .

In addition to his pianistic career, Friedheim worked as a composer for life. He composed several operas, including The Last Days of Pompeii , Alexander and Thais and Die Tanzerin , two piano concertos, the orchestral overture A Hero of our Times and the March E pluribus unum . Many of his works were lost in the turmoil of World War II.

literature

• Sadie, Stanley (eds.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, First Edition (London, Macmillian, 1980). ISBN 0-333-23111-2
  • Moore, Jerrold Northrop, "Friedheim, Arthur"
• Schonberg, Harold C., The Great Pianists (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987, 1963). ISBN 0-671-64200-6
• Friedheim, Arthur, Life and Liszt in Remembering Franz Liszt (New York, Limelight Editions, 1987). ISBN 978-0-87910-113-8
• Carter, Gerard and Adler, Martin, Liszt Piano Sonata Monographs - Arthur Friedheim's Recently Discovered Roll Recording (Sydney, Wensleydale Press, 2011). ISBN 978-3-86931-795-3
• Carter, Gerard (ed.) And Adler, Martin (ed.), Facsimile of Arthur Friedheim's Edition of Franz Liszt's Sonata in B minor (Sydney, Wensleydale Press, 2011). ISBN 978-3-8442-0890-0