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Tobias Matthay : Allegretto (from Mono-Themes), Op. 13 No. 1

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays the first piece from an 1891 set of six 'Confidences and Confessions' for the piano by the famous English piano teacher Tobias Matthay (1858-1945).
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Perhaps the best-known English piano teacher of his era, Matthay (1858-1945) studied under Sterndale-Bennett and Sullivan, but went on to teach Arnold Bax, York Bowen, Myra Hess, Felix Swinstead, Harold Craxton and many other influential musicians. His own music, never populist in style, is now neglected, having been politely played by his pupils but put aside after his death.  I can see why, because, to me, much of it lacks a message to transcend its fiddly detail.  However, one can see an affinity to the more experimental pieces of Liszt (such as the early 'Apparitions'), and this piece is a good example.  The set was dedicated to a pupil, Maude Rihll (later McKerrow) (1871-1946).  Rihll had been a Thalberg Scholar of the Royal College of Music, and was a well-known concert pianist in the late nineteenth century.  Her brother Louis Rihll was a famous concert-party impresario of the period.
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