Two decades later, he and Rachmaninoff would do the same with the latter’s new compositions. He and Tchaikovsky toured Europe together taking turns conducting and playing Tchaikovsky’s first and second piano concerti. At Weimar he studied with Franz Liszt who nicknamed him ‘Silotissimus’ in honor of his extraordinary keyboard skills.įor years, he concertized across Russia, Europe, and America, and earned stunning reviews. He was a student of Tchaikovsky, of Nikolai and Anton Rubinstein, Hubert, and Taneyev.
But in fact, Siloti was, perhaps, as gifted a pianist as Russia has ever produced. If all that could be said about Alexander Siloti (1863-1945) was that he was a prize student of Liszt and teacher of Rachmaninoff, that would be enough to stake claim for him in music history. The Prize Student of Lizst and Teacher of Rachmaninoff "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. This addition to the Master's Collection is likely to be one of the most talked about piano folios of the year. Music by Gluck, Mozart and Chopin is also contained in this generous compilation of pianistic wizardry. Some of the Bach works includes are: Prelude in B Minor, BWV855a, Gigue from Suite in Bb Major, Chaconne in D Minor, the Organ Preludes in E Minor and G Minor and the Celebrated Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565.
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Bach, notable particlarly for their pianistic character and faithfulness to the unique "genetic code of Bach's design." The Alexander Siloti Collection is dominated by Siloti's remarkable transcriptions and arrangements of the music of J.S. Charles Barber explores this issue and writes cogently about the style and influence of this remarkable man. As with many of his colleagues, transcribing and arranging existing music for the piano was a major part of Siloti's activity, and since he made no recordings, his published transcriptions are one of the few existing keys we have to his musical taste and philosophy. As a concert promoter, he introduced the music of dozens of composers to the Russian public in the famous Siloti Concerts of 1903-1917, including Albeniz, Debussy,de Falla, Delius, Elgar, Enesco, Mahler and Schoenberg.Ī student of Liszt (and one of the teachers of Rachmaninoff), Siloti is a central figure in the development of the great age of the piano virtuoso. (1863-1945) was one of the most influential and progressive. One of the least known of the great Russian pianists of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, Alexander Siloti
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