Rudolf Firkušný

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Rudolf Firkušný (Czech: [ˈrudolf ˈfɪrkuʃniː]; 11 February 1912 – 19 July 1994) was a Czech and American classical pianist.

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Life Firkušný was born on 11 February 1912 in Napajedla, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. He was the younger brother of the musicologist Leoš Firkušný. Rudolf Firkušný started his musical studies with the composers Leoš Janáček and Josef Suk, and the pianist Vilém Kurz. Later he studied with the legendary pianists Alfred Cortot and Artur Schnabel. He began performing on the continent of Europe in the 1920s, and made his debuts in London in 1933 and New York in 1938. He escaped the Nazis in 1939, fled to Paris, later settled in New York and eventually became a U.S. citizen. Firkušný had a broad repertoire and skillfully performed the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, and Brahms as well as Mussorgsky and Debussy. However, he became known especially for his performances of the Czech composers Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček, and Bohuslav Martinů (who wrote a number of works for him). Firkušný championed Dvořák's only piano concerto, which he played with many different conductors and orchestras around the world and also recorded several times. Originally, he performed the revised version made by his teacher Kurz and even arranged it further; yet in the end, he came back to the original Dvořák…Citește mai mult

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Discography selection Beethoven: Sonatas No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 "Pathetique"; No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 "Moonlight"; No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 "Waldstein"; No. 30 in E, Op. 109 (EMI) Beethoven: Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, with the New York Philharmonic/Guido Cantelli (AS Disc) Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73, with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra/William Steinberg (Decca) Beethoven: Sonata No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 12, for violin and piano; Mozart: Sonata in C major, K. 296 for violin and piano, with Erica Morini, violin (Decca) Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 in G major, Op. 30, for violin and piano

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Benda: Sonata No. 9 (Vox) Brahms: Sonatas No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120, for viola and piano; No. 2 in E flat, Op. 120, for viola and piano, with William Primrose, viola (EMI) Brahms: Concerto No. 1 in D minor, with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra/William Steinberg (EMI)

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Brahms: Firkušný plays Brahms (EMI) Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108, for violin and piano, with Erica Morini, violin (Decca) Brahms: Cello Sonatas, op. 38 & 99, with Pierre Fournier, cello (Deutsche Grammophon) Chopin: Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58, Nocturne in E flat, Polonaise in C minor, Scherzo in B flat minor, Barcarolle, Waltz in C sharp minor, Nocturne in D flat, Grande valse brillante (EMI) Debussy by Firkušný. Capitol.

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Debussy: Estampes (Sugano) Dussek: Sonata No. 28 in F minor, Op. 77 "L'Invocation" (Vox) Dvořák: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G minor, Op. 33, with the Czech Philharmonic/Rafael Kubelík (Multisonic) Dvořák: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G minor, Op. 33, with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra/Laszlo Somogyi (Westminster) Dvořák: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G minor, Op. 33, with the Czech Philharmonic, Václav Neumann (RCA) Dvořák: Piano Quartets, Opp. 23 31, and 87, Bagatelles, Op. 47, with the Juilliard String Quartet (CBS) Dvořák: Piano Quintets, with the Ridge Quartet (RCA) Dvořak: Dvořák in Prague: a Celebration, with Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Frederica von Stade, the Prague Philharmonic Chorus, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Seiji Ozawa (Sony) Franck: Symphonic Variations, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Claus Peter Flor (RCA) Haydn: Sonatas for piano Nos. 33 and 59 (BBC Legends) Janáček: Concertino for piano, 2 violins, clarinet, bassoon a French horn; Capriccio forpiano and wind ensemble, with the Czech Philharmonic/Václav Neumann (Supraphon) Janáček: Complete Works for Piano, with the Bayerische Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra/Rafael Kubelík (Deutsche Grammophon) Martinů: Piano Concerto No. 2, with the Czech Philharmonic/Jiří Bělohlávek (Supraphon)

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Martinů: Piano Works (RCA) Martinů: Piano Concertos Nos. 2, 3, 4, with the Czech Philharmonic/Libor Pešek (RCA) Martinů: Cello Sonatas 1,2 and 3, with the Hungarian born cellist Janos Starker (RCA, at BMG Studio, New York, 1990) Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, with the Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra/Louis Froment (Vox) Mozart: Fantasia in C minor K. 475; Sonata in C minor K. 396 (Columbia) Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 271, K. 451, K. 456, K. 466, K. 491, K. 503, with the SWF Sinfonie-Orchester Baden-Baden/Ernest Bour (Intercord) Mozart: Piano Concerto K.466, with the Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester/Günter Wand (Hänssler) Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat, K. 365; sonatas for four hands and two pianos, with Alan Weiss (Vox) Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft) Ravel: 3 piano pieces (Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft)

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Schubert: Impromptus, Opp. 90, 142 (Philips) Schubert: Drei Klavierstucke, D. 946 (BBC Legends) Schubert: Sonata in B flat Major, D. 960 (BBC Legends) Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54, with the Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra/Louis Froment (Vox) Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze; Symphonic Etudes; Kinderszenen (EMI)

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Smetana: Czech Dances (EMI) Smetana: Fantasy in C major, Op. 17, Trio in G minor, with Kaufmann Van den Burg (Columbia)

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Tomášek: Eclogue (Vox) Voříšek: Impromptu No. 4, Op. 7 (Vox)

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Videography Dvořák in Prague: A Celebration (1993), Kultur DVD, D4211, 2007

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Rudolf Firkusny article Rudolf Firkusny 100th Celebration 2012 at JAMU Rudolf Firkusny Piano Festival Archived 2016-06-09 at the Wayback Machine

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Interviews Rudolf Firkusny interview by Bruce Duffie, November 2, 1990 David Dubal interview of Rudolf Firkušný, WNCN-FM, 16-Dec-1983