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Egon Petri
12+ albums
pianoClassicalAmerican classical pianist
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Egon Petri (23 March 1881 – 27 May 1962) was a classical pianist. Petri's family was Dutch and he was born a Dutch citizen, but he was born in Hanover in Germany and was brought up in Dresden. His father was a professional violinist who taught his son that instrument. Petri played in the Dresden Court Orchestra and with his father's string quartet while still a teenager. He studied composition and theory with Hermann Kretzschmar and Felix Draeseke at the Dresden Conservatory. From an early age, Petri had also taken piano lessons and he eventually concentrated on that instrument, after strong encouragement from Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Ferruccio Busoni. He studied with Busoni, who proved to be a great influence on him. He considered himself more of a disciple of Busoni's than his student. Thanks to Busoni, Petri focused on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Franz Liszt, composers that, along with Busoni himself, remained at the centre of his repertoire. Petri moved with Busoni to Switzerland during World War I where he assisted him in editing Bach's keyboard works. In the 1920s Petri taught in Berlin, Victor Borge, Gunnar Johansen and Vitya Vronsky being among his students. In 1923 he became the first non-Soviet soloist to play in the Soviet Union. In 1927 he moved to Zakopane in Poland where he conducted summer and early fall sessions and master-classes to a group of pre-selected piano students until the outbreak of World War II in 1939. From 1929 he made a number of r
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Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!, BWV 208, "Hunt Cantata": Aria: Schafe konnen sicher weiden (arr. E. Petri for piano)
902Liszt: Erlkonig (Schubert)
633Paraphrase on "Wedding March" and "Elfin Chorus" from Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream"
384Mendelssohn: Paraphrase on "Wedding March" and "Elfin Chorus" from Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream"
325Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!, BWV 208, "Hunt Cantata": Aria: Schafe konnen sicher weiden (Sheep May Safely Graze) (arr. E. Petri for piano)
276Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!, BWV 208, "Hunt Cantata": Aria: Schafe konnen sicher weiden (Sheep May Safely Graze) (arr. E. Petri)
257Concert Paraphrase On Mendelssohn's Wedding March And Elfin Chorus
238Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier": I. Allegro
239Variations on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24: XII. Variation 11
2210Форель
21albums
The Art of Egon Petri (1922-1960)
The Liszt Legacy
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24
The Complete Columbia & Electrola Solo & Concerto Recordings (Recorded 1929-1951)
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The Greatest Pianists
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Liszt - Wild and Crazy
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Busoni: Transcriptions of Works by Bach & Brahms
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Liszt: Wild And Crazy
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Complete Columbia & Electrola Solo & Concerto Recordings
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Музыкальная зоология
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A To Z Of Pianists
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Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35