Elsie Hall: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II No36 Prelude & Fugue in F minor (J.-S. Bach)
- il y a 11 ans
Recorded in London, 2 December 1930.
Elsie Maude Stanley Hall (1877-1976) was an australian pianist. Her mother was a music teacher, and her father, a reporter.
In 1888 Elsie, with her mother and sister Muriel, travelled to Germany where she enrolled at the Stuttgart Conservatorium. In 1889 she performed at the Australian kiosk at the Paris exhibition and next year moved with her family to London where she won a pianoforte scholarship at the Royal College of Music. Through the patronage of Mendelssohn's eldest daughter, Marie Benecke, she subsequently attended the Royal High School for Music in Berlin, studying under Ernst Rudorff and Rudolf Joachim; in 1895 she won the coveted Mendelssohn State Prize and next year made her public début playing Chopin's E Minor Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
In November 1897 Miss Hall returned to the Australian colonies. Accompanied by Muriel, now a proficient violinist, she toured outback and cities for several years before accepting a teaching appointment at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, Adelaide. About 1903 she returned to her concert career in England; in 1908 she pioneered classical entertainment at the Coliseum and Hippodrome theatres, London. She also did a little teaching, her most notable pupils being Princess Mary (aged 14) and George Lambert's sons, Maurice and Constant.
On 22 November 1913 Elsie married Frederick Otto Stohr whose medical career took him to South Africa. During World War I Miss Hall served at the Anzac Buffet, London, and toured the French war zone with Lena Ashwell's entertainment party. In 1919 she gave her first recital with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra and continued to play with leading South African orchestras until she was 93. Well into old age, she performed on television.
The music is accompanied by a sketch by Watteau.
Elsie Maude Stanley Hall (1877-1976) was an australian pianist. Her mother was a music teacher, and her father, a reporter.
In 1888 Elsie, with her mother and sister Muriel, travelled to Germany where she enrolled at the Stuttgart Conservatorium. In 1889 she performed at the Australian kiosk at the Paris exhibition and next year moved with her family to London where she won a pianoforte scholarship at the Royal College of Music. Through the patronage of Mendelssohn's eldest daughter, Marie Benecke, she subsequently attended the Royal High School for Music in Berlin, studying under Ernst Rudorff and Rudolf Joachim; in 1895 she won the coveted Mendelssohn State Prize and next year made her public début playing Chopin's E Minor Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
In November 1897 Miss Hall returned to the Australian colonies. Accompanied by Muriel, now a proficient violinist, she toured outback and cities for several years before accepting a teaching appointment at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, Adelaide. About 1903 she returned to her concert career in England; in 1908 she pioneered classical entertainment at the Coliseum and Hippodrome theatres, London. She also did a little teaching, her most notable pupils being Princess Mary (aged 14) and George Lambert's sons, Maurice and Constant.
On 22 November 1913 Elsie married Frederick Otto Stohr whose medical career took him to South Africa. During World War I Miss Hall served at the Anzac Buffet, London, and toured the French war zone with Lena Ashwell's entertainment party. In 1919 she gave her first recital with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra and continued to play with leading South African orchestras until she was 93. Well into old age, she performed on television.
The music is accompanied by a sketch by Watteau.