Harold bauer biography

Biography.
Harold Bauer was a British-born American pianist who introduced to the United States works by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and César Franck.
Harold Victor Bauer (* 28.

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Harold Bauer

For the Medal of Honor recipient, see Harold W. Bauer.

English-born pianist and violinist

Harold Victor Bauer (28 April 1873 – 12 March 1951) was an English-born pianist of Jewish heritage who began his musical career as a violinist.

Biography

Harold Bauer was born in Kingston upon Thames; his father was a German violinist and his mother was English. He took up the study of the violin under the direction of his father and Adolf Pollitzer. He made his debut as a violinist in London in 1883, and for nine years toured England. In 1892, however, he went to Paris and studied the piano under Ignacy Jan Paderewski for a year, though still maintaining his interest in the violin. An anecdote reports that Paderewski jokingly told Bauer to concentrate on the piano because "You have such beautiful hair". In 1893, in Paris, he and Achille Rivarde premiered Frederick Delius's Violin Sonata in B major.^[1]^[2]

During 1893-94 he travelled all through Russia accompanying the noted soprano Mademoiselle Nikita and giving piano recitals and

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Harold Bauer

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Harold Bauer ( 1873 - 1951 ) was born in Kingston upon Thames, England. He studied with I.J. Paderewski, and eventually was an acclaimed professor at the Manhattan School of Music. He recorded many piano rolls and integral recordings of Beethoven, Debussy and Brahms.

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Composers

Arensky, Anton

Bach, Johann Sebastian
Bauer, Harold
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Brahms, Johannes
Bülow, Hans von

Chopin, Frédéric
Couperin, François

Debussy, Claude
Durand, Auguste

Grieg, Edvard

Handel, George Frederick

Liszt, Franz

Mendelssohn, Felix Bartholdy
Moszkowski, Moritz

Paderewski, Ignacy Jan

Rubinstein, Anton

Saint-Saëns, Camille
Scarlatti, Domenico
Schubert, Franz
Schumann, Robert
Schütt, Eduard

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Appian

Biddulph

Dal Segno

HMV

Klavier Records

Nimbus

RCA
RCA Victor

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Conductor / Composer Harold Bauer

A Conversation with Bruce Duffie

On the first day of February, 1997, Harold Bauer came to WNIB, and we taped an interview. Parts were used to promote an upcoming production by the DuPage Opera Theatre in Glen Ellyn, Illinois (24 miles west of downtown Chicago). We also spoke in more depth about this work, and about his other ideas and activities. Our full conversation is included on this webpage . . . . .

Harold Bauer:   I’ve been at the College of DuPage for the past twenty years. This is the twentieth season, and I still tend to speak in terms of seasons rather than academic years.

Bruce Duffie:   That’s the musician in you! [Both laugh]

Bauer:   The New Philharmonic was started in 1977.

BD:   By you?

Bauer:   By me, yes. I was hired by the College of DuPage to be on the music faculty, but the primary mission was to begin an orchestra program of professional caliber, and also an opera compan