Rudolf Friml: Intermezzo, Op.85bis No. 2

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2018 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays one of a set of 'Six Melodious Pieces' from 1916 by the Czech composer Rudolph Friml (1879-1972).
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The Czech composer Rudolf Friml (1879-1972) is remembered today for his hugely successful operettas 'The Vagabond King' and 'Rose Marie'. However, he started his professional life as a pianist, having studied piano and composition with Dvorak in Prague - and was still performing as a pianist into his nineties. He moved to the USA in the early 1900s and published several light piano suites there. It is fascinating to trace through them changes in his style from the early Dvorak influences towards the cosmopolitan Hollywood composer he became. 
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