Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Parry - Piano Concerto in F-sharp Major 33

Parry - Piano Concerto in F-sharp Major
Hubert (1848 -1918) Parry is an English composer, teacher and music historian. He came from an upper middle-class families, and schools such as Eton and went to. Although the music is experienced when his father, Eton (such as games) to claim that he study for a variety of career, so when he went to Oxford to study the music, but the law and history.
He worked as an insurance underwriter from 1870 1877 from London, Lloyd, all the time music is continuing his studies. The Lesson from Brahms to try, but he was not present. The end of Edward Dannreuther, a pianist and writer from the text of Parry. The compositions of Parry and the public will be informed by 1875 he was hired as a professor in the Music Grove dictionary of music and musicians that he was an assistant editor for Drama as well as Article 123, by George Grove. Royal College of Music, 1883, he was appointed professor of composition and instrument history. College, he became the director and his death in 1900 that the ability to work.
Piano concerto F - sharp Major Parry was one of the first major works. He began work in 1878 and in 1879 it was completed. It premiered in 1880 in his own unit as a teacher was Dannreuther. It got rave reviews, but some consider it avante garde. Went on a lot of vocal music, and television, and other pieces, plus music and music history to write the book Parry.
Parry thought that German music and heritage value will be the upcoming World War II, so he felt confident that the English and German to each other not to fight. Of course, sadly, he was wrong, and his instrument of war in the world yet another victim of the clock. Parry suffering from heart disease for many years, and during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, when he contracted, that his life has taken.
Parry wrote only one piano concerto. It's an interesting piece, all that seems, at least not one time was considered avante garde. This is a very good part of a piano virtuoso's skill in writing for that call. This is a much neglected piece of the repertoire that can be used for an irregular one at the hearing.
Parry's Piano Concerto in F-sharp Major :