1913 MAUD POWELL VIOLIN JEWISH PRAYER Bruch KOL NIDREI 78

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A series of great Violin, Piano and Orchestra records on rare labels, from 1902 Monarch to 1940 War Germany recordings.

One of my favorite Violinists: Maud Powell, one of the first woman violinists, is known for her muscular play. Also, her early recordings are excellently and with great presence recorded. There is never a dull record!

in the traditional JEWISH PRAYER setting by Max Bruch KOL NIDREI

Piano Georg Falkenstein

 Condition:EXCELLENT QUIET, lightest swish

12" 78 rpm record

Maud Powell was born on August 22, 1867 in Peru, Illinois on the western frontier where her grandparents had been Methodist missionaries before the CivilWar. 

 She began violin lessons at the age of 7 with Professor G.W. Fickensher who often walked Maud home from school on lesson days. By the time she was nine, Maud began violin studies with William Lewis in Chicago, who laid the foundation for her solid technique, her impeccable musical taste and wide sympathies and to whom she said she "owed the most". She would take the Burlington-Northern train to Chicago every Saturday, traveling alone to save the train fare. 
  

     Maud became a celebrity in Aurora and performed frequently with local musical groups including Stein's Orchestra.
      Soon the time came for Maud to pursue her art at the highest level, which meant,in the 19th century, with the great teachers of Europe. The citizens of Aurora staged a grand farewell concert at the Coulter Opera House in which Maud performed the Adagio and Finale to Ferdinand David's Concerto no.4 with Stein's Orchestra.  She completed her studies with Henry Schradieck in Leipzig, Charles Dancia in Paris and Joseph Joachim in Berlin. She made her New York debut at the age of 18, performing the Bruch G minor violin concerto with America's foremost conductor, Theodore Thomas and the New York Philharmonic on November 14, 1885.

Missionary for Music
     From 1885 forward, Theodore Thomas' "musical grandchild" made it her mission to cultivate a higher and more widespread appreciation for her art by bringing the best in classical music to Americans in remote areas as well as the large cultural centers. Powell pioneered the violin recital as she blazed new concert circuits throughout the country, braving the primitive touring conditions in the Far West to reach people who had never heard a concert before. She played concertos and sonatas in recital and complex chamber music with her trio (1908-09) and quartet (1894-95) to audiences widely varying in sophistication. Through her innovative recital programming, and her own program notes and music journal articles she educated her audiences about the history of violin playing and composition and encouraged them to cultivate music on their own.  She performed for the benefit of hospitals and schools and for the soldiers during World War I. Her devotion to and enthusiasm for her art made her one of America's most revered and beloved musicians.

Champion of American Composers
     Powell boldly championed the works of American composers such as Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Victor Herbert, Cecil Burleigh, Edwin Grasse, John Alden Carpenter, Henry Holden Huss, Henry Rowe Shelley, Arthur Foote, Charles Wakefield Cadman and Grace White. Powell made her own transcriptions of music for violin and piano and composed an original cadenza for the Brahms violin concerto.
Pioneer in Violin Repertory
     Powell introduced to the American public concertos by Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Sibelius, Saint-Saens, Lalo, Coleridge-Taylor, Arensky, Aulin, Huss, Shelley, Conus, Bruch and Rimsky-Korsakov. She revived neglected works of the 18th century, including Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola, and even edited a Locatelli violin sonata for publication.
Pioneer in Recording
     Powell transformed musical taste and set an enduring standard for violin performance as the first solo intrumentalist to record for the Victor Talking Machine Company's celebrity artist series (Red Seal label) in 1904.

     When Powell made her debut in 1885, appreciation for her art was in its infancy in America, with only five professional orchestras, no established concert circuits, and few professional managers. Solo engagements were difficult to obtain; doubly difficult for a female artist and an American since all orchestra players and conductors were male and usually German. In 1893, Theodore Thomas, America's foremost conductor chose Maud Powell to represent America's achievement in violin performance at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. She was the only woman violinist to solo with the Exposition orchestra.

      Powell had proved to the world that a woman could play the violin as well as a man and was hailed as America's "one great master of the violin" , when her life of achievment ended--the same year that the Ninteenth Amendment granting national suffrage to women was ratified.

Maud Powell's Legacy
     Maud Powell set an enduring standard for virtuosity and muscianship. Her art represented a synthesis of the major European schools transfused with the American spirit. Known for her immense repertoire, she was one of the first to play works from Corelli to Sibeluis with masterly breadth of style, absolute technical command and deep interpretive insight. With her American premieres of the Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and Sibelius violin concertos, she advanced the technique of the instrument into the modern age. Maud Powell toured Europe, North America, and South Africa to wide acclaim, apprearing with the great orchestras of her time under such conductors as Joachim, Saint-Saens, Mahler, Nikisch, Thomas, Safonov, Damrosch, Seidl, Richter, Wood, Herbert, and Stokowski. Upon her death on January 8, 1920, the New York Symphony paid tribute to this "supreme and unforgettable artist": "She was not only America's great master of the violin, but a woman of lofty purpose and noble achievment, whose life and art brought to countless thousands inspiration for the good and the beautiful."
 

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