Schuett Rococo-Minuet Bauer- Gabrilowitsch Rec.1928

Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch were great friends and often performed as a two piano team. Here they play a piece of fluff by the very minor and long forgotten composer Edward Schuett. (1856-1933) But these two extraordinary pianists perform a charming re-creation of this less than note worthy composition.
Ossip Gabrilowitsch was born in St. Petersburg (Russia) on January 26,1878. He was a pupil of Anton Rubinstein and won the Rubinstein prize at the age of 16. He later studied in Vienna with Leschetizky. It was during this period that he met a fellow Leschetizky student by the name of Clara Clemens,the daughter of Samuel Clemens(aka Mark Twain). They were married on October 6,1909 in Samuel Clemens home in Connecticut. (I once read an amusing article about Samuel Clemens'interaction with Leschetizky.Fortunately, Leschetizky had a good sense of humor).Gabrilowitsch made his first American tour in 1900. His repertoire included the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto and later Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto. However, it was the music of Schumann and Brahms (as it was with his good friend Harold Bauer)that he advocated. His performance of the Brahms and Schumann Piano Concertos were concidered to be definitive. In 1918, he became the musical director and principal conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He remained in that position until his death in 1936.Unfortunately,except for the Schumann Quintet Op. 44,his recorded legacy is devoted to miniatures that he regularly programmed. After his death Bruno Walter wrote,"Ossip Gabrilowitsch was a born musician. Music for him was the element of existence.In him reigned the spirit of song.He drew from the piano a truly lyric tone and perfect legato. The title of 'poet of the piano' surely belongs to Gabrilowitsch

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[MarianneAlkonost]

What a perfect record! Thank you for the new name! Eduard Schütt...

[65attila]

This a beautiful performance unknown to me. I do know the Arensky.

Imagine early 20th century in NYC there was performance of "Beethoven's Triple Concerto" with Bauer/Kreisler and Casals.

Thank you-John

[NOSEhow2LIV]

Fantastic playing & teamwork, so synchronose that one can hardly believe 2pianos are at work. It's posterity's loss that they didn't record the whole 2piano rep. I've loved their Arensky for years, but never knew the existence of this. Thanks so much.

[lieder01]

this is the reverse side of the arensky

thx for all these

bruno walter was`a long time friend of og, and remained close to clara into her old age

so great to see all these up

do you also have the earlier recording of the quintet?

i'm hopeful to discover more og recordings, live radio broadcasts, though it will be a hunt

[snaaptaker]

Wow! This was a surprise. I was completely unaware of this recording. I assume it came from the same session(s) as the Arensky.

Also, I've been playing the piano for over 65 years and I've never even heard of Schuett. Charming, indeed.