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Rudolf Friml: Roubideaux Vista, Op.57 No.5

562 views · Published 8 June 2014 · 2:52 · Indexed 11 October 2026

Channel: PSearPianist · 2014 · Music

#5 from 'California', suite for piano
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Another beautiful and evocative piece by the Czech composer Rudolf Friml (1879-1972). He 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. 'California' is one of his earlier suites, published in 1910. It is dedicated to Mathilde Baruch, the first of his four wives, whom he married in 1909 - and may have been written before his marriage. I think the title of this piece is actually a mis-spelling by Friml or his publishers. The piece almost certainly refers to the views from the Mount Rubidoux Trail in what was then Huntingdon Park, near Riverside, California. You can read about it, and enjoy the wonderful views here: http://bit.ly/1iebcQq - no wonder Friml was inspired to write such a great piece - which slightly shows the influence of Henselt in its more agitated central section.

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Rudolf Friml: Roubideaux Vista, Op.57 No.5

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