1930 ARTHUR DE GREEF Liszt Piano Concerto No 2 A Maj Landon Ronald M-16978

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I am currently selling a series of great classic European 78 rpm orchestral recordings on all the great European labels:

Great Belgian Pianist and Liszt pupil in the last of his three great Concerto recordings, also the rarest one to find

Liszt: Piano Concerto #2 - Arthur de Greef
Recorded in 1930. Landon Ronald, London Symphony Orchestra

on 3x 12" Victor 78 rpm records w original album DM-169

Condition: EXCELLENT light rubs, side 2 has a tiny scratch,  plays very very quiet rare ticks album great

A GREAT COPY

Arthur De Greef (10 October 1862 – 29 August 1940) was a Belgian pianist and composer.

Born in Louvain, he won first prize in a local music composition when he was only 11, and subsequently enrolled at the Brussels Conservatoire. His main teacher there was Louis Brassin, a former pupil of Ignaz Moscheles, although he also took lessons from other staffers at the institution, including Joseph Dupont, François-Auguste Gevaert and Fernand Kufferath.[1]

After graduating with high distinction from the Conservatoire at the age of 17, De Greef went to Weimar to complete his studies under Franz Liszt. He was a Liszt pupil for two years.[2]

Following the Weimar sojourn, De Greef embarked on a successful career as a concert pianist, travelling widely. He was a friend of Edvard Grieg, whose Piano Concerto he had played publicly in 1898, and who called him "the best performer of my music I have met with". In addition, he enjoyed the endorsement of Camille Saint-Saëns. British critic Jonathan Woolf has written: "De Greef was, in all respects, an intensely musical, non-sensationalist, eloquent and impressive musician and whilst not being averse to some of the interventionist tactics of his contemporaries (retouching of the score) remained sympathetically self-effacing".[2]

De Greef composed a sizeable quantity of music, virtually all of which is now unheard. Among his works are two piano concertos. He was a devoted teacher, and taught piano at the Brussels Conservatoire for many years.[2]

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