Ossip Gabrilowitsch - Selected Pieces for Piano

00:00 Fantasie Nocturne Op.2 No.1 Margarita Glebov 05:21 Gavotte Op.2 No.2 Margarita Glebov Missing page 6! 09:36 Feuillet dAlbum Op.2 No.3 Margarita Glebov 12:31 Romance Op.1 No.4 Margarita Glebov 16:12 Melody in E minor Op.8 No.1 Ossip Gabrilowitsch 20:43 Meditation Op9 No.1 Tatiana Pichkaeva 25:04 Elegy Op.12 No.1 Tatiana Pichkaeva 29:51 Etude for the left hand Op.12 No.2 Jean Dubé 33:48 Caprice Burlesque Op.3 No.1 Ossip Gabrilowitsch Ossip Gabrilowitsch 1878-1936 was a Russian Composer and Pianist. He studied the piano and composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Anton Rubinstein Anatoly Lyadov Alexander Glazunov and Nikolai Medtner among others. After graduating in 1894 he spent two years studying piano with Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna. In July 1905 he recorded ten pieces for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano one of the first pianists to do so. Between 1915 and 1927 he subsequently recorded at least fifteen more reproducing rolls for Duo-Art and at least five reproducing rolls for Ampico. From 1910 to 1914 he was conductor of the Munich Konzertverein later known as the Munich Philharmonic. At the outbreak of World War I he was arrested as an enemy national. Through the intervention of the nuncio to Bavaria Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli later Pope Pius XII Gabrilowitsch was freed from jail and then he headed to the United States via Zürich in August 1914. He settled in the US and was offered the post of conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In declining he recommended that the Boston board appoint the recently arrived Sergei Rachmaninoff. In 1918 he was appointed the founding director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra while still maintaining his life as a concert pianist. Before accepting the conductors position he demanded a new auditorium be built and this was the impetus for the building of Orchestra Hall. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please support this channel ,

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