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Rudolf Friml: Solitude

491 views · Published 21 September 2016 · 1:53 · Indexed 29 October 2026

Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

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#5 of 'From my Garden: 5 Summer Idyls' (1918)
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Phillip Sear plays a short piece from a set of five 'summer idylls' from 1918 by the Czech composer Rudolph Friml (1879–1972).
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Friml 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 gives the impression of someone enjoying being alone in the garden (some pieces with the same title can be on the sad side).

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