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NOTE: Labels & sound files are from The AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM): charm.rhul.ac.uk/index.html
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Pianist Julius L. Schendel (1883-1971)
Liebestraum
Franz Liszt (composer)
Recorded: February 11, 1927 in Camden, New Jersey (17th take)
Prelude in C sharp minor
Sergei Rachmaninoff (composer)
Recorded: January 13, 1927 (6th take)
The following is from the 1911 Lawrence Holdridge Record Auction Catalog:
Master Julius Schendel (1883-1971) made his debut in Steinway Hall in 1896. His career continued at least through the 1920s, frequently as an accompanist. Nathaniel Shilkret, in his autobiography Sixty Years in the Music Business, recalled Schendel as “a fine pianist, but he was a very strange man – almost a mystic. He was emaciated and very nervous.” He and Shilkret (clarinet) were playing in an ensemble, and Schendel proclaimed that as it was Brahms’ birthday, he would only play his music. “We (the ensemble) compromised: We would change some pieces to Brahms compositions, providing he would play some pieces by another composer. Schendel shut his eyes, went into sort of a trance, and finally said, ‘The Master will allow me to play other composers, if you will play four Brahms pieces this session.’ We agreed.”
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NOTE: Labels & sound files are from The AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM): charm.rhul.ac.uk/index.html
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Pianist Julius L. Schendel (1883-1971)
Liebestraum
Franz Liszt (composer)
Recorded: February 11, 1927 in Camden, New Jersey (17th take)
Prelude in C sharp minor
Sergei Rachmaninoff (composer)
Recorded: January 13, 1927 (6th take)
The following is from the 1911 Lawrence Holdridge Record Auction Catalog:
Master Julius Schendel (1883-1971) made his debut in Steinway Hall in 1896. His career continued at least through the 1920s, frequently as an accompanist. Nathaniel Shilkret, in his autobiography Sixty Years in the Music Business, recalled Schendel as “a fine pianist, but he was a very strange man – almost a mystic. He was emaciated and very nervous.” He and Shilkret (clarinet) were playing in an ensemble, and Schendel proclaimed that as it was Brahms’ birthday, he would only play his music. “We (the ensemble) compromised: We would change some pieces to Brahms compositions, providing he would play some pieces by another composer. Schendel shut his eyes, went into sort of a trance, and finally said, ‘The Master will allow me to play other composers, if you will play four Brahms pieces this session.’ We agreed.”
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