From Paris to Peoria: How European Piano Virtuosos Brought by R. Allen Lott
By R. Allen Lott
It is tough to visualize Franz Liszt appearing in Peoria, yet his modern and most advantageous rival, Sigismund Thalberg, did simply that. throughout the mid-nineteenth century, american citizens in additional than 100 cities--from Portland, Maine to Dubuque, Iowa to cellular, Alabama--were handled to performances by means of a few of Europe's so much celebrated pianists. From Paris to Peoria deftly chronicles the visits of 5 of those pianists to the the USA of Mark Twain. even if appearing in small railroad cities through the Midwest or in gold-rush period California, those 5 charismatic pianists--Leopold de Meyer, Henri Herz, Sigismund Thalberg, Anton Rubinstein, and Hans von Bülow--introduced many americans to the delights of the live performance corridor. With humor and perception, R. Allen Lott describes the glamour and the drudgery of the traveling existence, the transformation of yank audiences from boisterous to reverent, and the institution of the piano recital as a achievable inventive and monetary company. Lott additionally explores the artistic and occasionally outlandish exposure options of managers looking to capitalize on filthy rich yet uncharted American markets. the results of large archival examine, From Paris to Peoria is richly illustrated with live performance courses, handbills, caricatures, and maps. A better half site, www.rallenlott.info, incorporates a complete checklist of repertoires and itineraries, audio track examples, and transcriptions of chosen fundamental assets. sure to satisfaction pianists, musicologists, and historians, From Paris to Peoria is a fascinating, completely researched, and infrequently humorous account of track and tradition in nineteenth-century America.
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Other works, if not folkbased, are at least suggestive of a distant locale, such as La danse du sérail, Op. 51. Subtitled a “grande fantaisie orientale,” it is a programmatic work inspired by the pianist’s experience in Constantinople, where he supposedly played before the sultan. 2), may not seem all that striking today, but its provocative title, frequent chromaticism, and seductive figuration resonated among audiences who were just then enchanted with the exotic. 1. Leopold de Meyer, Airs russes, Op.
28 Perhaps the most notable aspect of De Meyer’s concerts in Philadelphia and Baltimore was the reaction of the audiences to his variations on “Hail, Columbia” and “Yankee Doodle,” later published as Airs nationaux américains. Almost every visiting artist felt obliged to compose a musical homage to his host country based on patriotic or popular tunes. 29 Nevertheless, audiences greeted them with gusto, and they demonstrated that the line between popular and art music had yet to be drawn decisively.
However, the second and even . . ”26 Obviously, De Meyer’s gift of prophecy did not equal his piano skills. 27 In Philadelphia, De Meyer began inviting “Ladies and Gentlemen who have a desire to become acquainted with his touch of the Piano, to take their seats on the Platform near the instruments,” an invitation that THE LION STALKS AMERICA 25 would be frequently repeated and accepted. His audiences in Washington, which greeted him “with long-continued shouts of applause,” included a distinguished array of foreign ministers, congressmen, and officers of the army and navy, as well as former President John Quincy Adams and the uncle and nephew of President James K.