{"id":1648,"date":"2015-05-31T18:28:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T23:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2015-05-31T18:28:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T23:28:46","slug":"gertrude-meller-performs-liszt-moszkowski-1922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=1648","title":{"rendered":"Gertrude Meller Performs Liszt & Moszkowski – 1922"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HomochordHD2027\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Paraphrase de Concert”
\nGertrude Meller
\n1922 (Homochord HD 2027)
\nParaphrase de Concert<\/a><\/p>\n

“Grande Valse In E”
\nGertrude Meller
\n1922 (Homochord HD 2027)
\nGrande Valse In E<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here is a piano solo record from England performed in a style that I really enjoy.<\/p>\n

I have not been able to find much information about British pianist Gertrude Meller – she seems to be all but forgotten today.\u00a0 I was able to find some online references to her performing around 1907 and also of her performing on radio over the BBC in the early 1920s.\u00a0\u00a0 There is a YouTube video featuring one of her other records which states in its description that she was a pupil of Francesco Berger<\/a>.\u00a0 But that video is the only source I could find for that piece of information.\u00a0 She did make quite a few recordings for the British Homochord label – a 1925 Homochord catalog that I found in an online archive lists a total of 30 sides.<\/p>\n

“Paraphrase de Concert” is Franz Liszt’s<\/a>\u00a0 1859 piano reduction<\/a> of “Bella figlia dell\u2019amore” from Act 3 of Giuseppe Verdi’s<\/a> 1851 opera Rigoletto<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Grande Valse In E” is the waltz from German-Jewish composer Moritz Moszkowski’s<\/a> 1884 “Trois Morceaux” (Opus 34 No 1).<\/p>\n

The Homochord label and its parent company, British Homophone, was the British affiliate of the Berlin based Homophon Company GmbH which issued the Homokord and Homocord labels in Germany.<\/p>\n

If anybody has additional information about Gertrude Meller, I would be interested in knowing about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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