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Osborne Edmundson: A Little Study in Double Notes

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2014 · Music

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#1 of 'From my Sketch Book' (1916) 
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The British pianist, organist teacher and composer Osborne Edmundson (1868-1933) was born in St. Helens, in Lancashire, and it was in St. Helens in 1899 that Edmundson played the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1 under the baton of Thomas Beecham in his very first concert as an orchestral conductor.  Edmundson himself became, from 1900, director of the German Institute of Music in Liverpool—a job he was presumably well qualified for as he had studied under Salomon Jadassohn and Reinecke at the Leipzig Conservatory (1886–92), and had performed Jadassohn's piano concerto in Liverpool in 1896. Interestingly, Edmundson's piano teacher in Leipzig was Liszt's pupil Martin Krause, who later taught the young Claudio Arrau. Edmundson wrote piano pieces, songs and choral music, including a cantata 'The Captivity'. There is nothing in his 'sketch book' to indicate any great originality, but this is a fun piece.

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