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His success was instantaneous, and after a tour of Romania he was made Court Pianist of Romania when he was fourteen years of age. 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.
It is the emotions of Beethoven and Chopin interpreted in tone. His debut occurred in Vienna in 1876. He taught at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1926-1928. Joining in the acclamation were such figures as Brahms, Hanslick, Johann Strauss, and Busoni (no minor pianist himself). On a specially produced piano from Baldwin (gilded, no less), Rosenthal performed before an audience of devoted followers and esteemed artists, winning yet again the roaring acclaim that had been his due for decades and offering a still deeper, more profound measure of musicianship.
Moriz Rosenthal
Rosenthal was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (later Lwów, Poland), where his father was professor at the chief academy.
If he has added to the sum of his powers, it is in the way of playing faster or louder or softer or with more brilliancy, if not with more certainty. He is both musical and intellectual. A year's concentration produced astounding results. Goldmark inscribed a photograph to the pianist he felt had "no equal and no superior among pianists, deceased or living." Even Paderewski genuflected before Rosenthal's playing of Chopin.
In 1880, Rosenthal returned to Vienna, not to perform, but to begin the study of philosophy. Hanslick would have us believe that music is recreated by the interpreter as an artisan puts together a mosaic, every stone in its place. During a career that lasted into his eighties, Rosenthal seduced other musicians as readily as he did audiences in Europe and America, gradually developing a sensitivity and musicianship to match his rampant virtuosity.
Composers voiced words of unqualified admiration. He is in reality a Superman among pianists.
– James Huneker
Mr. An anthology of Rosenthal's autobiographical writings was published as Moriz Rosenthal: In Word and Music (ed. If he has moved forward in these eight years it has been in this direction.
Six years later he resumed his career with the piano, achieving brilliant success in Leipzig, and in Boston, where he made his U.S. debut in 1888, and subsequently in England in 1895. All of this is clearly evident in his recordings made when he was already in his sixties. Having the conviction that a well-rounded classical education was necessary in his work as an interpreter, he studied at the Staats Gymnasium in Vienna and at the University, where he was a pupil in philosophy under Von Zimmerman and Brentano and in esthetics under Hanslick.