Tag Archives: 1910s – 1950s

The man who was simply reportedly the favourite pianist of president Franklin D. Roosevelt was created into a existence of music. Graham Jackson’s mom was a well-known vocalist, and he started showing melodic and rhythmic skills of his personal at an age group when most kids want to get better …

This artist was a pianist who played in New Orleans jazz combos dating back to the first decade from the 20th century. Eddie Shields’ old brothers Larry Shields and Harry Shields had been both clarinetists. After factoring within a youthful sibling, Pat Shields on electric guitar, the family attained an …

The Gabriel category of New Orleans was the foundation of many okay musicians, but only 1 having a nickname that could pass muster at a surfing convention. Commonly launched from bandstands as Dude Gabriel, this clarinetist’s actual name was Albert Gabriel. His sibling was Martin Gabriel, Sr., a cornet participant …

Acknowledged as the best mestre-sala ever, Amor’s participation in the samba scene was important. As an interpreter, he was, as well as Mano Unói, the first ever to record pontos de macumba (music of dark sorcery rituals), in 1930. Like a composer, his samba “Apanhando Papel” (with Ubiratã Silva) was …

Composer of a huge selection of valses, maracatus, mayçõha sido, sambas-canção, serenatas, modinhas, choros, baiõha sido, polkas, marching musics, public, operettas, musics for movie theater and movie theater, and especially frevos, Capiba is a tale from the northeast and certainly the main author of this area. At eight, Capiba had …

The first independent producer of Brazil as well as the first someone to ever record traditional, authentic caipira (hillbilly) music, Cornélio Pires was the largest propagandist from the hillbilly culture of upstate São Paulo in the initial decades from the 20th century. Along with 26 books about the caipira with …

Although given birth to in Berlin, conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler spent his child years in Munich, where his dad was a professor. After his skills were recognized young, he was taken off school and informed privately. Furtwängler’s educators included the composer Joseph Rheinberger as well as the conductor Felix Mottl. By …

“If she have been given birth to in Texas they might possess called her a gusher, thus impulsively did she pour away her voice within an exuberant, generous overflow.” The starting words of documenting maker Walter Legge’s gratitude go quite a distance toward detailing the Lotte Lehmann trend. Richard Strauss …

Benno Moiseiwitsch was the leading late-Romantic Russian pianist located in London through the years following the Russian Trend. He was precociously talented, evidenced by his earning the Anton Rubinstein Award when he was nine years of age, after having researched with Dmitry Klimov on the Music Academy in Odessa. At …

Beyond Spain, Jesús Guridi remains to be a generally obscure name, but he’s perhaps being among the most underrated composers from the twentieth hundred years and thus probably one of the most worth revival. He accomplished distinction like a author of orchestral and choral music, and especially of opera (or …