IGNAZ FRIEDMAN (ALSO SPELLED IGNACE OR IGNACY; FULL NAME SOLOMON (SALOMON) ISAAC FREUDMAN(N), YIDDISH: שְׁלֹמֹה יִצְחָק פֿרײדמאַן; FEBRUARY 13, 1882 – JANUARY 26, 1948)
Ignaz Friedman was a Polish pianist and composer. Critics (e.g. Harold C. Schonberg) and colleagues (e.g. Sergei Rachmaninoff) alike placed him among the supreme piano virtuosi of his day, alongside Leopold Godowsky, Moriz Rosenthal, Josef Hofmann and Josef Lhévinne. Born to an itinerant Jewish musician in Podgórze near Kraków, Ignaz Friedman was a child prodigy. He studied with Hugo Riemann in Leipzig and Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna, and participated in Ferruccio Busoni’s masterclasses. Friedman lived in Berlin until 1914 and settled in Copenhagen in 1920. His official début in Vienna in 1904 featured a program of three piano concertos, rivaling the similar programs of established titans like Busoni and Godowsky, and he remained a titan throughout his career. His style was quiet and effortless, imbued with a sense of rhythm and color, grounded in a sovereign technique, and much has been written about his peerless interpretations of Chopin in particular. As with his compatriot and contemporary Moriz Rosenthal, Friedman’s Chopin interpretations, particularly those of the mazurkas, are considered by many to be unsurpassed. Despite having given 2,800 concerts during his career, he sometimes received lukewarm reviews in America in later years, as younger critics were becoming accustomed to modernist playing which stripped romantic interpretation of its agogics and essence. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Friedman was in Europe, but managed to escape when a concert tour in Australia was offered at the last moment. He settled in Sydney and remained there until his death (which occurred on Australia Day, 1948). His last concert was in Sydney on July 24, 1943, after which neuritis in his left hand forced him to retire from the concert platform.
TRACKLIST
Pastorale in E minor (Scarlatti-Tausig) 6/2/26 Columbia W 141605
Sonata K. 331 in A: Rondo alla Turca (Mozart) 6/2/26 Columbia W 141604
Gavotte (Gluck-Brahms) 9/2/28 Columbia WA 6943
Judgement of Paris (Anonymous author-Friedman) 10/2/28 Columbia WA 6945
Rondo Favori in E flat (Hummel) 19/11/25 Columbia WA 1151
Minuet in G (Paderewski) 1/12/36 Columbia W 98237
Friedman speaks on Paderewski 6/11/40 New Zealand Radio transcription disc
Sonata op. 27 No. 2 in C# minor. First Movement (Beethoven) 7/9/26
Sonata op. 27 No. 2 in C# minor. Second Movement (Beethoven) 7/9/26
Sonata op. 27 No. 2 in C# minor. Third Movement (Beethoven) 7/9/26
Sonata op. 27 No. 2 in C# minor. Alternate Second Movement (Beethoven) 1/3/27
Sonata op. 27 No. 2 in C# minor. Alternate Third Movement (Beethoven) 1/3/27
Invitation to the Dance (Weber) 23/11/36 and 2/12/36 Columbia CAX 7889/95
Marche Militaire in D flat (Schubert-Tausig) 2/12/36 Columbia CA 16071/84
Hark, Hark the Lark! (Schubert-Liszt) 29/12/23 Columbia 80951
Hark, Hark the Lark! (Schubert-Liszt) 10/2/28 Columbia WA 6947
Alt Wien (Schubert-Friedman) 2/3/28 Columbia WAX 3341, WAX 3342
Prelude op. 28 No. 15 in D flat (Chopin) 6/9/26 Columbia WAX 1142
Prelude op. 28 No. 19 in E flat (Chopin) 2/4/24 Columbia 81658
Etude op 25 No. 6 in G sharp minor (Chopin) 2/4/24 Columbia 81658
Etude op. 10 No. 5 in G flat (Chopin) 2/10/28 Columbia WA 6946
Etude op.25 No. 9 in G flat (Chopin) 10/2/28 Columbia WA 6946
Etude op. 10 No. 12 in С minor (Chopin) 8/2/26 Columbia W 98203
Etude op. 10 No. 7 in С (Chopin) 8/2/26 Columbia W 98203
Ballade op. 47 in A flat (Chopin) 29/12/25 Columbia W 98126
Mazurka op. 7 No. 1 in В flat (Chopin) 13/9/30 WAX 5205
Mazurka op.7 No. 2 in A minor(Chopin) 13/9/30 WAX 5211
Mazurka op 7 No. 3 in F minor (Chopin) 13/9/30 Columbia WAX 5205
Mazurka op. 24 No. 4 in В flat minor (Chopin) 13/9/30 Columbia WAX 5208
Mazurka op 33 No. 2 in D (Chopin) 13/9/30 Columbia WAX 5211
Mazurka op. 33 No. 4 in В minor (Chopin) 13/9/30 Columbia WAX 5209
Mazurka op. 41 No. 1 in С sharp minor (Chopin) 13/9/30 Columbia WAX 5212
Mazurka op. 41 No. 1 (Chopin) 15/10/29 Columbia WAX 5212 rejected
Mazurka op. 50 No. 2 in A flat (Chopin) 13/9/30 Columbia WAX 5206
Mazurka op. 63 No. 3 in С sharp minor (Chopin) 13/9/30 Columbia WAX 5210
Mazurka op 67 No. 3 in C (Chopin) 13/9/30 Columbia WAX 5212
Mazurka op. 67 No. 4 in A minor (Chopin) 13/9/30 Columbia WAX 5212
Mazurka op. 68 No. 2 in A minor (Chopin) 13/9/30 Columbia WAX 5212
Ballade op. 47 in A flat (Chopin) 27/2/33 Columbia CAX 6729/30
Mazurka op. 7 No. 1 in В flat (Chopin) 9/2/28 Columbia WA 6942
Mazurka op. 33 No. 2 in D (Chopin) 15/3/24 Columbia 81597
Mazurka op. 33 No. 2 in D (Chopin) 29/12/25 Columbia W 14138
Mazurka op. 33 No. 4 in В minor (Chopin) 6/9/26 Columbia W 14138
Mazurka op. 63 No. 3 in С sharp minor (Chopin) 29/12/23 Columbia 80941
Impromptu op. 36 in F sharp (Chopin) 23/11/36 Columbia CAX 7887
Polonaise op. 53 in A flat (Chopin) 1/3 and 2/3/27 Columbia WAX 1871
Polonaise op. 71 No. 2 in В flat (Chopin) 15/2/29 Columbia WAX 4666
Berceuse (Chopin) 9/2/28 Columbia WAX 3243
Valse op. 34 No. 2 in A minor (Chopin) 8/2/26 Columbia W 98230
Valse op. 64 No. 1 in D flat (Chopin) 29/12/23 Columbia 80941
Sonata op. 35 in В flat minor Third Movement (Chopin) Columbia WAX 2471
Sonata op. 35 in В flat minor Fourth Movement (Chopin) 2/3/27 Columbia WAX 2472
Nocturne op. 55 No. 2 in E flat (Chopin) 23/12/36 Columbia CAX 7888
Friedman speaks on Chopin. 5’10”. November 1940 New Zealand Radio transcription disc
Songs Without Words. Op. 19 No. 3 (Mendelssohn) 17/9/30 Columbia WA 10673
Op. 19 No. 6 in G minor. 2’00” (Mendelssohn) 16/9/30 Columbia WA 10664
Op. 102 No. 5 in A. 1’00” (Mendelssohn) 16/9/30 Columbia WA 10664
Op. 30 No. 6 in F sharp minor. 3’22” (Mendelssohn) 16/9/30 Columbia WA 10663
Op. 38 No. 2 in С minor. 2’24” (Mendelssohn) 17/9/30 Columbia WA 10670
Op. 38 No. 6 in A flat. 3’15” (Mendelssohn) 17/9/30 Columbia WA 10671
Op. 53 No. 2 in E flat. 2’26” (Mendelssohn) 16/9/30 Columbia WA 10662
Op. 53 No. 4 in F. 2’48” (Mendelssohn) 16/9/30 Columbia WA 10661
Op. 67 No. 2 in F sharp minor (Mendelssohn) 16/9/30 Columbia WA 10665
Scherzo op. 16 No. 2 in E minor (Mendelssohn) 6/9/26 Columbia WA 3226
Scherzo op. 16 No. 2 (Mendelssohn) 1/3/27 Columbia WA 2610
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (Liszt) 16/12/31 and 17/12/31 Columbia CAX 6261/62
La Campanella (Paganini/Liszt/Busoni/Friedman) 7/9/26 Columbia WAX 1881
Humoresque (Dvorak) 1/12/36 Columbia CA 16083
Valse Caprice (Rubinstein) 2/12/36 Columbia CAX 7896
Romance (Rubinstein) 2/3/28 Columbia WA 7039
Serenata op. 15 (Moszkowski) 8/4/26 Columbia W 141449
Serenata op. 15 (Moszkowski) 1/12/36 Columbia CA 16082
Minuetto (Suk) 2/3/28 Columbia WAX 3340
Little Nana’s Music Box (Mittler) 9/2/28 Columbia WA 6944
Music Box op. 33 No. 3 (Friedman) 2/3/27 Columbia WA 4968
Elle Danse op. 10 No. 53 (Friedman) 6/9/26 Columbia WA 2594
Elle Danse op. 10 No. 53 (Friedman) 1/3/27 Columbia WA 2594
Marquis et Marquise op. 22 No. 4 (Friedman) 3/6/27 Columbia WT 154
Viennese Dance No. 1 (Gaertner-Friedman) 19/11/25 Columbia WAX 1150
Viennese Dance No. 2 (Gaertner-Friedman) 27/2/33 Columbia CA 13465
Viennese Dance No. 6 (Gaertner-Friedman) 27/2/33 Columbia CA 13466
Piano Concerto (Grieg)
First Movement
Second Movement
Third Movement
Unidentified orchestra/Phillipe Gaubert
Spring 1928
Columbia WLX 261/4, 268/71
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