Abram Chasins

Abram Chasins ( born August 17, 1903 in New York City; † June 21, 1987 ibid ) was an American pianist, composer, music writer and educator.

After attending Ethical Culture School studied at Columbia University. He was at the Juilliard School of Music student of Ernest Hutcheson (piano) and Rubin Goldmark (composition) and continued his piano studies at the Curtis Institute of Music with Józef Hofmann continued. In 1931, he studied musical analysis with Donald Tovey in London.

From 1926 to 1931 taught at the Curtis Institute Chasins, 1940-41 at the Berkshire Music Center, next he gave private music lessons. From 1927 to 1947 he was active as a concert pianist. The world premiere of his own Piano Concerto No.. 1 in F Minor, he played in 1928 with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Ossip Gabrilowitsch in the Academy of Music in Philadelphia and later at Carnegie Hall. The world premiere of his second piano concerto he played in 1931 under Leopold Stokowski. His compositions parade and Flirtation in a Chinese Garden led by Arturo Toscanini on with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

From 1932 to 1939 Chasin led his own radio series. From 1943 to 1965 he was music director of the New York classical radio station WQXR. In 1949, he married his pupil, the pianist Constance Keene, with which he performed also works for two pianos and recorded.

Chasin wrote over a hundred piano works, the most famous of the Three Chinese Pieces ( A Shanghai Tragedy, Flirtation in a Chinese Garden and Rush Hour in Hong Kong) from 1926 are.

He also published from 1957 several portraits of musicians and books about music.

Works

  • Three Chinese Pieces ( 1926)
  • Piano Concerto No.. 1 in F Minor (1928 )
  • Piano Concerto in F Sharp Minor (1931 )
  • Artists' Life (after Richard Strauss) for piano four hands

Writings

  • Speaking of Pianists ( Alfred Knopf, 1957)
  • The Van Cliburn Legend ( Doubleday, 1959)
  • The Appreciation of Music ( Crown, 1966)
  • Leopold Stokowski, A Profile ( Hawthorne, 1979)

Swell

  • Bach Cantatas - Abram Chasins
  • Amica - Abram Chasins
  • Naxos - Abram Chasins
  • University of Maryland, University Libraries - Abram Chasins
  • Abram Chasins at the Internet Movie Database (English)
  • American composer
  • Classic pianist
  • Author
  • Musicologist
  • Born in 1903
  • Died in 1987
  • Man
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