Dohnanyi: Serenade For String Trio / Sextet

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Cat No: 8557153

Release Date: 01 April 2003

Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 747313215324

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: DOHNANYI

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Ern?¢o Dohnányi (1877-1960)Serenade in C major for String Trio Sextet in C major for piano, violin, viola, cello, clarinet and hornErno?¢ Dohnányi, sometimes known under the German form of his name as Ernst von Dohnányi, was born in 1877 in the formerly Hungarian Pozsony, once Pressburg and now Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. He had his first music lessons in violin and piano from his father, a teacher of mathematics, like Bartók’s mother, and a competent amateur cellist and composer, followed by lessons in organ and musical theory with the cathedral organist Karl Forstner. He showed considerable precocity both as a pianist and as a composer and even as a schoolboy had compositions of his played in Vienna and elsewhere. While Vienna might have seemed a normal choice for further musical study, Dohnányi chose instead to move in 1895 to Budapest, where he studied piano and composition for two years with István Thomán and János Koessler respectively, a course later followed, on his advice, by his younger contemporary in Pozsony, Béla Bartók. He made his début as a pianist in Berlin in 1897, following his success there with engagements throughout Europe, while his compositions, that had earlier elicited high praise from Brahms, continued to win awards and critical acclaim. On the invitation of Joseph Joachim he joined the teaching staff of the Berlin Musikhochschule, but the outbreak of war led him, in 1915, to return to Budapest, where he gave much encouragement to younger Hungarian composers as professor of piano at the Academy of Music and from 1918 as principal conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra, the latter a position he held until 1944. He served briefly in 1919 as director of the Budapest Academy, until forced to resign by the newly installed right-wing government of Admiral Horthy, but continued a particularly full concert schedule in Hungary, resuming his teaching duties at the Academy in 1928, to be appointed director again in 1934. The growing influence of National Socialism led to his resignation in 1941. In 1944 he left Hungary for Austria, a decision that brought later criticism. For some he seemed associated with the Horthy régime at home, while for others he appeared as a dissident against prevailing Fascism. From 1945 his appearances in Hungary were banned, and a prohibition on his compositions continued there until the 1970s. In 1948 he left Europe for Argentina, where he headed the music department at the University of Tucumán and the following year he took the position of professor of piano and composition at the Florida State University, while resuming something of his former career as a pianist. He died in 1960 in New York, where he was making recordings. Dohnányi’s Serenade in C major, Op.10, for string trio, was written in 1902 and published in Vienna two years later. The work opens with a march, dominated at
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