The legendary pianists II; Liszt

The legendary P.A.. The radio network brings you another in a series of recitals by keyboard giants of the early 20th century. These performances are selected from more than one thousand recordings. I'm doing art reproducing piano rolls collected by Dr. Campbell stuff the chairman of the music department at Washington State University. The duo art was a highly sophisticated refinement. The player piano developed to preserve actual performances of concert artist. In the days before electronic recording. Now here is Campbell stout. To introduce today's legendary pianist Ernest shelling was born July 26 1876 in Belvedere New Jersey and made his first public appearance in the Philadelphia Academy of Music at the age of four and a half. Soon

after that he was taken to Paris and studied with Matthias for a period of about seven years later he studied with Ms Kosky Barth letter to ski and for about four years with Paderewski before returning to the United States in one thousand five metre shelling made extended tours in Europe and South America. His career as a pianist was interrupted by World War 1 when he served as a captain then a major in the infantry. After the war he was guest conductor of many European and American orchestras and was the regular conductor of the Baltimore Symphony from one thousand thirty five to thirty eight. He died in New York City in 1039 shelling has many musical compositions to his credit. The best known perhaps being a victory ball. Today's programme features on a shelling performance of the Liszt Sonata in B minor the three movements heard without interruption are titled lento Allegro energy and Dante's sauced and U2 and Allegro energy go.

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You have been listening to the B minor Sonata by Franz Liszt as performed by Ernest shelling.

This has been the legendary pianists. A series of recitals from doing large reproducing piano rolls by the keyboard giants of the early 20th century. Your host and commentator on these programs is Dr. Campbell Stout the chairman of the music department at Washington State University. Speaking. To legendary pianists as produced by Washington State University Radio and distributed by the NAACP Radio Network.