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Anton Strelezki: Bon voyage (Morceau à la gavotte)

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a brisk gavotte from around 1905 by the English composer 'Anton Strelezki'
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I am led to understand that Anton Strelezki (and Stepan Esipoff) are pseudonyms of Arthur Bransby Burnand, born in Edmonton, London in 1858, and died in Lambeth in 1907. However, there seems to be some confusion over this, as, per Alan Walker's biography of Liszt, Strelezki was apparently his pupil in 1869 (when he would have been only 11), and Walker gives his real name as Theophilus Burnand. Indeed, a book of 'Personal Reminiscences of Chats with Liszt' was published under the Strelezki name. Arthur did have an uncle called John Theophilus Burnand, but he was a City clerk. Clara Schumann also had a friend called Theophilus Burnand with whom she dined in the 1880s. Interestingly, Burnand (if it was he) gave recitals in Croydon and Hastings (a Chopin-only programme) under the Strelezki name in 1890 and 1891, and in a report of his Hastings concert, he is described as court pianist to the Queen of Romania - which would have been Queen Elizabeth, aka the writer Carmen Sylva.  This position was also held by Moritz Rosenthal at one time!

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