Eileen Joyce

Eileen Alannah Joyce CMG (born January 1, 1912 in Zeehan , Tasmania , Australia , † March 25, 1991 in Redhill , England ) was an Australian pianist .

Life

Eileen Joyce, whose talent as a pianist was discovered by Percy Grainger as a child, began studying with Artur Schnabel and Robert Teichmüller at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1927 . In 1930 she was introduced to the conductor Henry Wood , who made her debut as a concert pianist at one of his famous promenade concerts . In the following years she became both a well-known concert pianist and a recognized pianist for radio concerts. During the Second World War , she performed together with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of the conductor Malcolm Sargent in numerous cities in Great Britain destroyed by the bombing of the German Air Force .

Joyce's grave in Limpsfield, Surrey

After the end of the war, she went on concert tours around the world alongside numerous well-known orchestras , performing her repertoire of over fifty piano concertos and other musical programs. Were among her repertoire pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach , Ludwig van Beethoven , Frederic Chopin , Ernst von Dohnányi , Enrique Granados , Edvard Grieg , John Ireland , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Sergei Rachmaninov, Maurice Ravel , Shostakovich Shostakovich , Cyril Scott , Alexander Nikolajewitsch Skrjabin , Joaquín Turina , which she also released on numerous record labels.

In addition, she became known for her work in film music , such as for Encounter (1945), for which she recorded Sergei Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto, and The Last Veil (The Seventh Veil, 1945) as well as for Wherever She Goes (1951), a film adaptation her own childhood. She also made headlines in 1951 when she rescued a horse from the slaughterhouse in Lincolnshire after the owner bought a truck. After she had retired as a concert pianist in 1960, she went on a concert tour again in 1967.

Joyce was married twice. Her first husband, from whom she was separated at the time, fell during World War II. From this marriage a son was born. Joyce married the second man she had lived with since 1942 shortly before his death in 1978.

Her hometown Zeehan named the Eileen Joyce Memorial Park after her in her honor . Her rich estate of concert programs, recordings, diaries and much more is in the Callaway Center of the University of Western Australia . She also received various honorary doctorates and was named Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) in 1981 .

Discography (selection)

• Sonata in C minor, op. 13 ("Pathetique") , Decca Records
• Etude in E major, op.10, no.3 , Columbia Records
• Jeux d'eau , Columbia Records
• Ballade no.3 in A flat major, op.47 , Columbia Records
• Bagatelle, op. 33, no.2 , Columbia Records
• For Elise , Columbia Records
• Sonata in C major (K. 309) , Columbia Records
• Piano concerto no.1 in G minor op.25 , Decca Records
• Rustle of spring - op.32 no.3. Scherzo impromptu - op.73 no.2 , Parlophone
• Rapsodia sinfonia , parlophone
• Rondo in A major - opus K 386 , Parlophone
• Lotus land and Danse nègre , Odeon
• La maja y el ruisenor , Odeon
• Prelude in E flat major, op.23, no.6. Prelude in C minor, op.23, no.7 , Odeon
• Rhapsody in C major, op.11 , no.3, Odeon
• Prelude and Fugue in A Minor , Odeon
• Concerto in E flat major: for pianoforte and orchestra , Columbia Records
• Prelude no.9 in E major / Prelude no.10 in C sharp minor , Columbia Records
• Concerto for piano and orchestra (op.35) , Columbia Records

literature

• Clare Hoskins Abrahall: A Girl Makes a Career: A Story for Young Girls , Biography, Vienna 1950.
• Chambers Biographical Encyclopedia , p. 820, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 .

Web links

• Recordings by Eileen Joyce in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eileen Joyce . In: Der Spiegel (No. 11/1951)
2. ↑ Eileen Joyce Collection