Teresa Carreño plays Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23

Welte Mignon piano roll, 1905

María Teresa Carreño García de Sena (December 22, 1853 -- June 12, 1917) was a Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor.

Born into a musical family, she was at first taught by her father and her talent was recognized at an early age. In 1862 her family emigrated to New York City, and at the age of 8 she made her debut at Irving Hall that same year. In 1863 she performed for Abraham Lincoln at the White House. In 1866 she moved to Europe, and began touring, making her debut as an opera-singer in 1876. It wasn't until 1885 that she returned to Venezuela, and then only for a short period. In 1889 she returned to Europe for more touring, settling in Berlin as her home base. She mounted two world tours in the early years of the twentieth century, but her health deteriorated and she died in 1917, in her apartment in the Della Robbia at 740 West End Avenue on the north east corner at 96th Street in New York City.

Teresa Carreño married four times:

1873-1875 to violinist Émile Sauret by whom she had a daughter, Emilita
1876-1891 in a common-law union with Italian opera-singer Giovanni Tagliapietra, by whom she had two surviving children, Giovanni and Teresita (born 24 December 1882); the latter also became a famous pianist, under the name of Teresita Tagliapietra-Carreño
1892-1895 to pianist Eugen d'Albert, himself oft-married, and together they produced two more daughters, Eugenia and Hertha
1902-1917 to Arturo Tagliapietra, the brother of her former common-law husband Giovanni Tagliapietra.

Plaque commemorating Teresa Carreño at the place of her deathTeresa Carreño was also a composer; she composed at least 40 works for piano, 2 for voice and piano, 2 for choir and orchestra, and 2 as chamber music. She also left many incomplete works. On April 2, 1905, she recorded 18 pieces for the reproducing piano Welte-Mignon.
(Wikipedia)

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[alexilmagnifico]

are you sure it is a pinao roll?

[gullivior]

@alexilmagnifico

I'm sure

[ivelosthewilltolive]

@wilsa863 Is that the book by Marta Milinowski? She was my first piano teacher, I only just found out about her book.

[ivelosthewilltolive]

She's my grand-teacher -- my first piano teacher was a student of hers...

[AulicExclusiva]

I normally give no credence to piano rolls, but this SOUNDS like a performance. Whatever the brand of the reproducing piano used, it sound very good, as well. Fascinating.

[kingjepoy]

the coda is crazy good! wow!

[tigrankalevian]

@Bambam78 Un rollo de cualquier época puede ser reproducido en un piano actual, y la sonoridad será del piano actual. La interpretación es romántica, propia de periodo, y el virtuosismo y el carácter de la intérprete es algo similar a la de Martha Argerich. La técnica, por su parte, es impresionante, mayor que la que se puede apreciar en registros en rollo de Rachmaninov y otros virtuosos de ese tiempo.

[Bambam78]

This is fake. There is NO WAY a piano roll from 1905 can sound like that. Plus though the performance is not bad, it's rhythmically quite unstable I doubt she sounded like a good student. Plus the source of the roll is not even mentioned. Anyway.. good try.

[gerardbedecarter]

Thanks for posting - note the extreme tempo fluctuations!!

[marcohorowitz8]

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus!!

[aardvaark069]

when they were right those old reproducers were extremely impressive.

[soniamauriello]

mi pieza de exámen final dificilíiiiiiiiiiiiiisimo pero una pieza hermosisíma