Alfred Jaëll

Alfred Jaell also Jaëll ( born March 5, 1832 in Trieste, † February 27, 1882 in Paris) was an Austrian pianist and composer.

Alfred Jaell received his first music lessons from his father Eduard Jaell. This was in Vienna and gifted violinist founded in 1839 as a former music director a music school in Trieste.

Barely eleven Alfred Jaell made ​​his first art trip to Italy and won here and later in Vienna such applause that Carl Czerny offered to guide his further studies. Jaell interested very early for pianos from the manufacturing of the company Ibach, when he appeared at age 14 in Elberfeld.

Since 1844 Jaell undertook concert tours through Italy, Germany, Belgium, France and the USA and Canada.

In 1857 he was appointed by King George V of Hanover to the Court Pianist. Later, he lived with his wife Marie, nee Trautmann, a well-known pianist and unusually gifted composer, in Paris, where the friend of Charles Ernest Appy, Johannes Brahms, Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt was highly regarded as a virtuoso and as a teacher and on 27 February 1882 died. Jaell worked on his concert tours closely with the cellist Léon Jacquard.

Jaells game was described by contemporaries as " preferably shiny ", reminiscent of Sigismund Thalberg. His compositions, consisting of living room pieces, transcriptions, fantasies about opera motifs, etc., were characterized more by brilliance and sonority than by depth. His pieces he moved, inter alia, at SEAL, C.F.W. ( Music publishing and music shop, Leipzig). Following Jaells special girth at a young age called him Heinrich von Bülow as "our thick Jaell ".

Works

• Faust -Walzer (after Charles François Gounod ), op 129 KLM 079
• " The Source ", Op. 106 [ BI. 51r: ]
• "Rigoletto" for solo piano in B flat major (after Giuseppe Verdi)