Moriz rosenthal biography of barack

Rosenthal was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (later Lwów, Poland), where his father was professor at the chief academy.

It seemed, when he was here before, that he had no further to go. Towards the end of his life Rosenthal lived at the Great Northern Hotel in New York, which he referred to as "more Northern than Great".

His pupils included Charles Rosen and Robert Goldsand.

Rosenthal recorded less than three hours' worth of music.

If he has moved forward in these eight years it has been in this direction. A colleague once played Rosenthal's arrangement of Chopin's Minute Waltz in thirds at a recital, after which Rosenthal thanked the pianist "for the most enjoyable quarter of an hour of my life". What he did record, however, is considered some of the most legendary piano-playing on disc.

He taught at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1926-1928. Rosenthal then studied with Rafael Joseffy, student of Carl Tausig and Liszt. Surviving examples include, in addition to conventional discs, a considerable quantity of American Piano Company (Ampico) piano rolls.

Rosenthal's usually malicious wit was legendary. He is in reality a Superman among pianists.

– James Huneker

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He is both musical and intellectual.

Rosenthal's usually malicious wit was legendary. Behind every melody there is the soul of a great personality.

Moriz Rosenthal in word and music : a legacy of the nineteenth century

In these pieces, we see every facet of Moriz Rosenthal: the memoirist offering a moving and sometimes hilarious account of his childhood; the social critic describing the intellectual and cultural life on nineteenth-century Vienna; the pedagogue passing on his knowledge to younger musicians; the virtuoso recalling his friendships with great composers and interpreters (and occasionally parrying with reviewers).

Rosenthal could write with gravity and pathos of a Chopin composition, yet he was also a famous wit whose sharp and often devastating bons mots have become the stuff of legend. His general education, however, was not neglected, and in 1880 Rosenthal qualified to take the philosophical course at the University of Vienna.

A tour through Romania followed when he was fourteen.

As Liszt's pupil, Rosenthal made appearances in St. Petersburg, Paris, and elsewhere. In everything that the wizards of modern technical skill have been able to exploit upon the keyboard of the instrument, in all that they have been able to make the human hand, wrist, arm, achieve, he stands among the chief wizards.