Rudolf Friml: La Danse des Demoiselles, Op. 48
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Channel: PSearPianist · 2018 · Music
Phillip Sear plays a waltz from 1908 by the Czech composer Rudolph Friml (1879-1972). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. This piece is dedicated to Eugénie von Bylandt (1882-1963) from a German noble family. I assume that it relates to demoiselle flies (damsel-flies), and have chosen a thumbnail picture accordingly. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk (Email: [email protected] WhatsApp: http://wa.me/441444483794 ) TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pianogems
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