Emánuel Moór

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Emánuel Moór, self-portrait
Duplex coupler Grand Pianoforte by Pleyel, around 1927

Emánuel Moór [ ˈɛmaːnuɛl ˈmoːr ] (born February 19, 1863 in Kecskemét , Austrian Empire , † October 20, 1931 in Chardonne , Switzerland ) was a Hungarian composer , pianist and inventor and brother of the painter Henrik Moor .

Life

Emanuel Moór was born as the son of the opera singer and cantor Rafael Moór, who gave him his first lessons. He studied composition in Budapest with Robert Volkmann , in Vienna with Anton Door and Anton Bruckner . At the age of 18 he became a piano teacher at the Conservatory of Music in Szeged . Between 1885 and 1897 he undertook concert tours that took him to the USA , where he also performed with the singer Lilli Lehmann . In 1888 he married Anita Burke in England and became a British citizen. George Henschel stood up for his orchestral music. From there he moved to Switzerland in 1901.

Since a meeting with the cellist Pablo Casals in 1905, the latter decisively promoted his music and its distribution among his colleagues. The second cello concerto is dedicated to Pablo Casals. The cello double concerto was performed across Europe by Casals and his then partner Guilhermina Suggia . Moór wrote a triple concerto for the Trio Casals, Alfred Cortot and Jacques Thibaud . Casals, André Hekking , Joseph Salmon and Diran Alexanian gave the world premiere of the cello quartet op.95.

After the First World War he devoted himself to making musical instruments and invented a double piano, the Duplex-Coupler Grand Pianoforte , in which two manuals on top of each other could be coupled, which was built by Pleyel , Bechstein (1929), Steinway & Sons and Bösendorfer , among others . After the death of his first wife Anita in 1922, he married the pianist Winifred Christie in 1923 , who became the most ardent proponent of the double manual grand piano .

In addition to five operas and eight symphonies , he composed four piano, four violin and two cello concertos, one viola and one harp concerto, a triple concerto for violin, cello and piano, chamber music works, a requiem and songs .

Work recordings

  • Prelude Op. 123 | Zara Nelsova (violoncello), Wilfrid Parry (piano accomp.) | Emanuel Moor; De Falla , Piatigorsky (Decca K. 2088 / London Records T. 5122), 1950. Republished on Great Moments in Cello Playing (Cello Classics CC 1006), 2001
  • Suite For Four Cellos, Op. 95 | New York Philharmonic Cello Quartet (Anthony Sophos, Laszlo Varga, Martin Ormandy, Nathan Stutch) | Works by Vivaldi , Bartok , Moór, Jongen (Decca Gold Label Series DL 9946), 1957
  • Suite pour quator de violoncelle, op.95 | Nederlands Cellokwartet (Jean Decroos, Fred Pot, Yke Viersen , Truus van Tol) | Kousnetzoff, Moor, Bartók (CBS 71099), 1980
  • Suite pour quatre violoncelles op.95 | Cellokwartet Amsterdam (Gregor Horsch, Sebastiaan van Eck, Judith Jamin, Pascale Went) | Moór and more ... Mozart , Brahms , de Swert , Mainardi , Pachelbel , Pütz (Quartz Classics CKA-03), 2003
  • Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano Op. 55 | David Frühwirth, Christoph Ehrenfellner (violins), Geneviève Strosser (viola), Péter Szabó (cello), Zsuzsa Kollár (piano) | H. Koessler , E. Moór - Chamber works ( Hungaroton Classic - HCD 32331), 2005
  • Stabat Mater | Calliope (Direction: Liliane Gerber, Orgue: Sébastien Vonlanthen, Mezzo: Mary-Josée Boinay) | Calliope - Ensemble vocal feminine . Works by Maurice Duruflé , Francis Poulenc , Marcelo Giannini. Emanuel Moor, André Caplet , Gilbert Bezençon d'après Jean Tisserand 15è s., François Auguste Gevaert , César Franck | Studio Artefax, Lausanne, 2006
  • Sonata No. 1 for Piano & Cello Op. 22 , Sonata for Cello & Piano Op. 53 , Sonata No. 3 for Piano & Cello Op. 76 | Péter Szabó (cello), Adrienne Krausz (piano) | Emanuel Moór - Sonatas for Cello & Piano (Hungaroton Classic - HCD 32462), 2007
  • Sonata op.55 in G major (dedicated to M. et Mme. Brandoukoff), Sonata op.22 in C minor (dedicated to Alfredo Piatti ), Suite pour Quatre Violoncelles op.95 | Gregor Horsch (cello), Carole Presland (piano), Cellokwartet Amsterdam (Gregor Horsch, Judith Jamin, Pascale Went, Sebastiaan van Eck) | Emanuel Moór - Works for Cello (Cello Classics CC1018), 2007
  • Suite pour quatre violoncelles Op. 95 | Ponticello (Caroline Milot, Julie Trudeau, P.-A. Bouvrette, Ioav Bronchti) | Ponticello - Quatuor de violoncelles . Works by Thierry Muller, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier , Joseph Jongen, Emánuel Moór, Olivier Messiaen , Paco de Lucía (XXI-CD 2 1681), 2009
  • Suite pour Violon et Violoncelle op.109 | Jansa Duo (Christine Rox, violin; Klaus-Dietrich Brandt, violoncello) | Rare chamber music Vol. 1. Ernst Bachrich , Ernst Toch . Emánuel Moór, Rudolf Moser , Erwin Schulhoff ( ARS 38 067), 2010
  • Concerto for 2 cellos in D major, Op. 69 | Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra, Qian Zhou (violin), Qin Li-Wei & Sebastian Comberti (cellos), Jason Lai (conductor) | Moór doubles Brahms (Cello Classics CC1031), 2013
  • Aria Op.40 , Sonata for Piano and Violoncello No.1 in C Minor, Op.22 | Tamás Varga (violoncello), Christopher Hinterhuber (piano) | Zemlinsky & Moór: Cello Sonatas (Camerata Tokyo, CMCD-28286), 2013
  • Concerto for 2 Cellos and Orchestra in D major, Op. 69 , Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in C sharp minor Op. 64 , Prelude for Cello and Orchestra in E major Op. 123 | Péter Szabó (cello), Ildikó Szabó (cello), Miskolc Symphony Orchestra conducted by Zsolt Hamar | Emanuel Moór - Cello Concertos (Hungaroton HCD 32728), 2014
  • Ballade in E Major, op. 171 | Samuel Magill (cello), Beth Levin (piano) | Cello Music from Austria-Hungary - Beethoven , Schnabel , Moór (Navona Records NV 6026), 2016
  • Concerto for two cellos and orchestra in D major op. 69 , dedicated to Pablo Casals and Guilhermina Suggia [David Stromberg (cello), Sebastian Hess (cello), Nürnberger Symphoniker , Rudolf Piehlmayer (conductor)]; Sonata for violoncello and piano in A minor op. 53 , dedicated to Ludwig Lebell [David Stromberg (cello), Irina Zahharenkova (piano)]; Suite for four cellos in C major op. 95 , dedicated to Pablo Casals, André Hekking, Joseph Salmon & Diran Alexanian [David Stromberg (cello), Niklas Eppinger (cello), Sebastian Hess (cello), Carina Reeves (cello)] | Emanuel Moór - Works for Cello ( Oehms Classics OC 1704, Co-Production with BR-Klassik ), 2019

literature

  • L. Deutsch: The technique of the double keyboard Moór , Leipzig 1932
  • Max Pirani: Emanuel Moór , London 1959
  • Herbert A. Shead: History of the Emanuel Moór Double Keyboard Piano , Old Woking, Surrey 1978
  • Dorothea Gersing: Emanuel Moór (1863–1931) - An introduction to the life and work of the pianist, composer and inventor . Lecture and concert on April 19, 2005 in the Henrik Moor Hall, Fürstenfeld Abbey. [Ed .: Anita Moor Foundation; Kester Haeusler Foundation], Fürstenfeldbruck 2005, ISBN 3-931548-45-7
  • Shoshana Liessmann: Emanuel Moór. Remembers . In: Angelika Mundorff, Eva von Seckendorff (eds.): Henrik Moor. Avant-garde in secret (pp. 144–157). Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. 2016, ISBN 978-3-9817387-3-5 . Second, corrected edition, 2017, ISBN 978-3-9817387-5-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Moór, Emánuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian composer, pianist and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Kecskemét , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1931
Place of death Chardonne , Switzerland