Gamma1734's video: Carlo Albanesi: Romance No 5

Carlo Albanesi (born 22 October 1858; died 26 September 1926) was an Italian-born composer, pianist, teacher and examiner who spent most of his working life in England. His Exercises for Fingering, first published in the early 1900s, are still in use today. Born in Naples, Albanesi received piano lessons from his father, the piano virtuoso Luigi Albanesi (1821-1898), and composition lessons from Sabino Falconi. He established himself in Italy as a pianist before moving to Paris as a recitalist in 1878. From 1882 he settled in London, where he composed and performed widely for the next ten years. In 1893 he was appointed professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music, succeeding the deceased Thomas Wingham. He remained there until his death. Albanesi was appointed Chevalier of the Crown of Italy, and was a long-term member of the London Philharmonic Society. He was also an examiner at the Dublin Royal Academy of Music. His pupils included Crown Princess of Sweden and her sister, Princess Patricia of Connaught, the Duchess Marie of Saxe-Coburg and the Duchess Paul of Mecklenburgh, as well as the English composer Mary Lucas and the Chilean composer, pianist and writer Norman Fraser. The Royal Academy of Music established a Carlo Albanesi prize for Chopin performance. As a composer Albanesi wrote orchestral and chamber music, including a string quartet and trio for piano and strings. But he is best remembered for his piano music and particularly the six piano sonatas, the last of which was composed in 1907. Of those, Number 4 in Bb minor (1905), with a graceful Barcarolle as its middle movement, achieved the most popularity. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - A method to find scores: https://youtu.be/xg74ZGNTv0c - My donation link to keep the channel growing: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/gamma1734 Thanks for listening :-)