http://www.discogs.com/Benny-Goodman-And-His-Orchestra-This-Is-Benny-Goodman/release/1126304
He, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, married the daughter of Mark Twain, Clara Clemens, and they had one daughter, the last lineal relative to the famed author and humorist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Uhp5u8MIA
The above YouTube link is to his own composition recorded in 1925. ("Ossip Gabrilowitsch was born in St. Petersburg (Russia) on January 26,1878. He was a pupil of Anton Rubinstein and won the Rubinstein prize at the age of 16. He later studied in Vienna with Leschetizky. It was during this period that he met a fellow Leschetizky student by the name of Clara Clemens,the daughter of Samuel Clemens(aka Mark Twain). They were married on October 6,1909 in Samuel Clemens home in Connecticut. (I once read an amusing article about Samuel Clemens'interaction with Leschetizky.Fortunately, Leschetizky had a good sense of humor).Gabrilowitsch made his first American tour in 1900. His repertoire included the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto and later Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto. However, it was the music of Schumann and Brahms (as it was with his good friend Harold Bauer)that he advocated. His performance of the Brahms and Schumann Piano Concertos were concidered to be definitive. In 1918, he became the musical director and principal conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He remained in that position until his death in 1936.Unfortunately,except for the Schumann Quintet Op. 44,his recorded legacy is devoted to miniatures that he regularly programmed. After his death Bruno Walter wrote,"Ossip Gabrilowitsch was a born musician. Music for him was the element of existence.In him reigned the spirit of song.He drew from the piano a truly lyric tone and perfect legato. The title of 'poet of the piano' surely belongs to Gabrilowitsch.")
He, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, married the daughter of Mark Twain, Clara Clemens, and they had one daughter, the last lineal relative to the famed author and humorist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Uhp5u8MIA
The above YouTube link is to his own composition recorded in 1925. ("Ossip Gabrilowitsch was born in St. Petersburg (Russia) on January 26,1878. He was a pupil of Anton Rubinstein and won the Rubinstein prize at the age of 16. He later studied in Vienna with Leschetizky. It was during this period that he met a fellow Leschetizky student by the name of Clara Clemens,the daughter of Samuel Clemens(aka Mark Twain). They were married on October 6,1909 in Samuel Clemens home in Connecticut. (I once read an amusing article about Samuel Clemens'interaction with Leschetizky.Fortunately, Leschetizky had a good sense of humor).Gabrilowitsch made his first American tour in 1900. His repertoire included the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto and later Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto. However, it was the music of Schumann and Brahms (as it was with his good friend Harold Bauer)that he advocated. His performance of the Brahms and Schumann Piano Concertos were concidered to be definitive. In 1918, he became the musical director and principal conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He remained in that position until his death in 1936.Unfortunately,except for the Schumann Quintet Op. 44,his recorded legacy is devoted to miniatures that he regularly programmed. After his death Bruno Walter wrote,"Ossip Gabrilowitsch was a born musician. Music for him was the element of existence.In him reigned the spirit of song.He drew from the piano a truly lyric tone and perfect legato. The title of 'poet of the piano' surely belongs to Gabrilowitsch.")
Just pulled this book off the shelf in the TV room, probably hasn't been removed in years or ever since it was placed there (dad said he was reading it recently) ... my husband Gabrilowitsch, by Clara Clemens. Dad tells me the pianist, composer, and founder of the Detroit Symphony, had a spat with Toscanini over a certain concerto, Concerto #2, Opus 86 by Johannes Brahms ... their views of the work in Toscanini's opinion were too "divergent" according to Sachs in his bio on AT. Toscanini performed the work, one time only, the next year with Robert Casadesus (sic).
Robert Casadesus (April 7, 1899 – September 19, 1972) was a renowned 20th-century French pianist and composer.
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In this performance dating from 1905, Ossip Gabrilowitsch (1878-1936) performs Chopin's Mazurka in B minor, Op. 33, No. 4. The music you hear was recorded originally on piano rolls and reproduced with the assistance of a Welte Vorsetzer in 1962-63 on Steinway Concert Grand No. 261. This recording is from the LP that you see above, one of three discs in a collection entitled "Legendary Masters of the Piano," issued by the Book of the Month Club Classics Record Library series in 1963.
This Mazurka is one of ten pieces that Gabrilowitsch recorded in July 1905 for the Welte Vorsetzer.
To read the liner notes, which describe in great detail the Welte Vorsetzer and how it came to be used for this recording, please visit this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMK3qY...
This Mazurka is one of ten pieces that Gabrilowitsch recorded in July 1905 for the Welte Vorsetzer.
To read the liner notes, which describe in great detail the Welte Vorsetzer and how it came to be used for this recording, please visit this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMK3qY...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBrcidGKHXI
Another eyeopening quartet from the early part of the 20th century, known by dad, the Flonzaley Quartet, here playing with our man of the day, married to Mark Twain's daughter, Clara Clemens, Ossip Gabrilowitsch.
Posted this photo of the kids and Nanny almost 20 years ago, I guess, at her apartment hugging together. Such a meaningful image. It was the only time they met each other.
Sold my Dodge Neon SXT this afternoon to a nice young lady who earned her stripes at Enterprise and got hired by webuyanycar.com as its branch manager and did a capable job of covering all the bases for the sale of my car ... I wrote on my gmail contact list:
Another eyeopening quartet from the early part of the 20th century, known by dad, the Flonzaley Quartet, here playing with our man of the day, married to Mark Twain's daughter, Clara Clemens, Ossip Gabrilowitsch.
Posted this photo of the kids and Nanny almost 20 years ago, I guess, at her apartment hugging together. Such a meaningful image. It was the only time they met each other.
Sold my Dodge Neon SXT this afternoon to a nice young lady who earned her stripes at Enterprise and got hired by webuyanycar.com as its branch manager and did a capable job of covering all the bases for the sale of my car ... I wrote on my gmail contact list:
10/21/13
"She negotiated, quite skillfully, the offer and eventual sale of my Dodge Neon 2005 SXT with 96,000 miles. The initial offer was $1460 and after all the inspection of the vehicle conclude (I was brutally honest about all the nicks and bumps on the vehicle). Found out, after a vehicle check, that the car had been in a rather serious accident in 2007 where the left side was severely damaged and had to be repainted. They did a good job repairing it. I never new.
"She negotiated, quite skillfully, the offer and eventual sale of my Dodge Neon 2005 SXT with 96,000 miles. The initial offer was $1460 and after all the inspection of the vehicle conclude (I was brutally honest about all the nicks and bumps on the vehicle). Found out, after a vehicle check, that the car had been in a rather serious accident in 2007 where the left side was severely damaged and had to be repainted. They did a good job repairing it. I never new.
Well, when all the figuring was done, Beth came up with the amount (determined by others who were texting and messaging her throughout the deliberative process) was $1085, non-negotiable or at least, that's what I found out when I suggested perhaps $1200. I wasn't in the mood to banter and realized that other locations were 30 miles away at the closest to buy the car, so I accepted to amount and signed my signature and printed it, too, a number of times."
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