Godowsky Alt Wien Whitecaps Saperton Rec 1957

David Saperton was born in Pennsylvania on October 29,1889. In 1924,he married Godowsky's elder daughter, Vanita.That year,Josef Hofmann appointed him to the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where Jorge Bolet,Abbey Simon and Shura Cherkassky studied with him. Saperton had a prodigious technique, but like Josef Lhevinne,he devoted himself mostly to teaching after 1918. Sidney Foster, one of David Saperton's best known students writes, " He died relatively unknown in 1970 at the age of 80 -mourned only by a son ,a handful of devoted students and a few ardent cognoscenti." He had a huge repertoire. Two weeks before before he died Saperton played the Prokofiev Toccata, the Barber Sonata, the Gaspard de la Nuit of Ravel and the Feux follets of Liszt to an audience who, according to his student Sidney Foster, "were astounded at the youthful vitality and undiminished powers he possessed."
From Triakontameron ,Thirty Moods and Scenes in Triple Measure

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[sagalat]

DOUBLE-WOW! Especially the last half-minutes. Very special technique....BRAVO!

[sagalat]

I don't know if it was the hippies or the mall-builders of conspicuous consumption, but "something's rotten in the state of......"

[ThunderAppeal]

America used to be a bastion of talent. Then the hippies came along and destroyed everything.

[MagicDonDino]

WOW Very interesting i never heard before!

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