Claudio Arrau. ” Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178 “. Franz Liszt . * , great compositions/performances

Claudio Arrau. ” Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178 “. Franz Liszt . * Pinturas de Catrin Wels Stein *

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Claudio Arrau León (1903-1991)

“The greatest pianist of Chile to the World”

Claudio Arrau was born in Chillán June 1st February 1903. His father, Carlos Arrau Ojeda, died when he was only a year. His mother, Lucrecia Leon, piano teacher, directed his first steps and learning in the world of music. His ability was such that at 5 years performed his first concert at the Teatro Municipal de Chillán.

By 1909, he completed a series of hearings before Congress and the President Pedro Montt, which resulted in the delivery of a scholarship –a lasted ten years from 1911 to study in Germany, at which point it would become a true citizen of the world. Moved to Berlin with his mother and brothers, Carlos and Lucrecia, began his studies with teachers of great prestige. In 1913, from the approach that came with Rosita Renard, who was studying piano at the same European city, the teacher Martin Krause was linked. Their relationship went beyond the academic, Arrau considered it as his father figure. Krause‘s death in 1918, resulted in the young a setback.

Already enshrined in Germany around 1920, both seasoned classic–romantic music and avant-garde contemporary compositions interpreter, Arrau undertook several tours of North America, South America and Chile which eventually confirmed his virtuosity world.

In 1933 he debuted musically in Mexico. There, three years later he played the music of the film José Bohr Dream of love, based on the life of Liszt, and participated in the film by the same director Who Killed Eve?

At the start of World War II left, with his wife, his residence in Nazi Germany, settling in the United States.

It began to be extensively disseminated through two piano rolls, produced in London in 1922, but it was with the countless musical productions made from the 1950s that saw the mass of Arrau worldwide, reaching audiences of the most varied segments.

The appellant Arrau repertoire consisted of works by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Chopin and Debussy. Chilean authors could only have a few works of Pedro Humberto Allende, Acario Cotapos and Domingo Santa Cruz.

His life was marked by the absence of Chile, even when about twenty musical visits, always characterized by the warm reception popular feature. In his eighties he was awarded the National Prize of Musical Arts.

He died in the city of Mürzzuschlag in Austria, June 9, 1991.

(Memoriachilena.cl)

* Paintings by Catrin Welz Stein *

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Part of page 9 from the original music manuscript of the sonata.

The Sonata in B minor (German: Klaviersonate h-moll), S.178, is a sonata for solo piano by Franz Liszt. It was completed in 1853 and published in 1854 with a dedication to Robert Schumann.

Scholar Alan Walker described it as “arguably one of the greatest keyboard works … of the nineteenth century”.^[1] The piece has received a lot of analytical attention,^[2] particularly regarding its musical form.

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JULES MASSENET.- EL CID – Ballet

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Andalouse
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Aubade
Catalane
Madrilene
Navarraise

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Le Cid, suite para orquesta.

Descripción de Robert Barefield

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