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Rudolf Serkin
12+ albums
Classicalpianoclassical pianoVirtuosoWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Rudolf Serkin (March 28, 1903 – May 8, 1991) was a Bohemian-born pianist. He was born in Cheb (Eger), Bohemia (now Czech Republic) to a Russian-Jewish family. Hailed as a child prodigy, Serkin was sent to Vienna at the age of nine, where he studied piano with Richard Robert and, later, composition with Joseph Marx making his public debut with the Vienna Philharmonic at 12. From 1918 to 1920 he studied composition with Arnold Schoenberg and participated actively in Schoenberg's Society for the Private Performance of Music. He began a regular concert career in 1920, living in Berlin with violinist Adolf Busch and his family, which included a then three-year-old daughter Irene, whom Serkin would marry 15 years later. Throughout the 1920s and early 1930s, Serkin performed throughout Europe both as soloist and with Busch and the Busch Quartet. With the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, Serkin and the Busches left Berlin for Switzerland. In 1933 Serkin made his first United States appearance at the Coolidge Festival in Washington, DC, where he performed with Adolf Busch. In 1936 he launched his solo concert career in the U. S. with the New York Philharmonic under Arturo Toscanini. The critics raved, describing him as "an artist of unusual and impressive talents in possession of a crystalline technique, plenty of power, delicacy, and tonal purity." Although Serkin himself admitted to having problems with his octave technique, his technical foundation was generally very solid.[1]
top songs
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24 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 4 in E minor. Largo
3,5802I. Allegro from Concerto No. 17 in G Major for Piano and Orchestra, K. 453
2,650324 Préludes, Op. 28/No. 4 in E minor. Largo
7334Rhapsody in E-flat Major, Op. 119, No. 4
561524 Préludes, Op. 28: Prelude in E Minor, No. 4 - Largo
547624 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 6 in B minor. Lento assai
472724 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 1 in C Major. Agitato
457824 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 13 in F-sharp Major. Lento
4159Piano Concerto No.23 in A, K.488 : 1. Allegro
3991024 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 7 In a Major. Andantino
376albums
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Rudolf Serkin Plays
Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28; Mendelssohn: Prelude And Fugue, Op. 35, No. 1 (Rudolf Serkin - The Art Of Interpretation)
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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2; Intermezzi & Rhapsody, Op. 119 [Rudolf Serkin - The Art of Interpretation]
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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 14, 8, & 23
The Incomparable Rudolf Serkin
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The Greatest Pianists
The Essential Rudolf Serkin
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos.23 24
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The Lost Tapes – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 21 & 23
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The Chopin Collection
Beethoven: Moonlight, Pathétique & Appassionata Sonatas
Mozart: Piano Concertos