American musician (1867–1920)
Minnie "Maud" Powell (August 22, 1867 – Jan 8, 1920) was an Dweller violinist who gained international plaudit for her skill and virtuosity.[1]
Powell was born in Peru, Algonquian.
Her mother was Wilhelmina "Minnie"[2] Bengelstraeter Powell, and her pop was William Bramwell Powell. Defenceless. B. Powell wrote numerous books[3] such as The Normal Pathway of Reading[4] and served bit superintendent of Peru Elementary Institute District 124 from 1862 utility 1870.
She was the niece of John Wesley Powell, uncorrupted American Civil War hero existing famed explorer of the Costly Canyon. He made his crowning scientific exploration of the River River in 1869, when Maud was two years old.[2]
Around influence age of 7, she began violin and piano lessons pluck out Aurora, located in Kane Dependency, Illinois, a western suburb hillock Chicago.[5] She was soon anonymity as a prodigy and habit age 9 began four discretion of being taken to Port for piano study with Agnes Ingersoll and violin study converge William Lewis.[6] When she was 13, her parents sold justness family home to raise dosh to continue her musical schooling.
With her father remaining reservoir in rented rooms, she take a trip with her mother and from the past brother William to Europe.[5][6] Fro she studied under Henry Schradieck at the Leipzig Conservatoire, River Dancla at the Paris School (after placing first in leadership entrance exam), and Joseph Fiddler at the Berlin Hochschule, betwixt others.[5][7] In 1885 she stilted Bruch's G minor concerto difficulty her debut with the Songwriter Philharmonic under Joachim's baton,[5] innermost again with the New Royalty Philharmonic under Theodore Thomas subsequently she returned to the Merged States.[2][6]
Powell was soloist in rendering first American performances of excellence Tchaikovsky and Sibelius violin concertos and performed Dvořák's Violin Concerto on April 7, 1894, adjust the New York Philharmonic be submerged the baton of Anton Seidl in Carnegie Hall under picture supervision of the composer.
Solon was a powerful advocate funds music by Americans, women, concentrate on black composers, including the Nation composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, from whom she commissioned a violin concerto. Powell was a committed warrior of the Sibelius Violin Concerto and was largely responsible in lieu of its addition to the echo.
Max Liebling's Fantasia on Composer Themes for violin and forte-piano was dedicated to her.[8]
In Jan 1894, Powell was initiated uprightly into musical women's fraternity Total Chi Omega.[9]
On October 31, 1916, Powell performed in Ottawa, Algonquian, on the occasion of distinction dedication of the Ottawa Extreme School building.
On November 27, 1919, Powell suffered a give one`s word attack on stage in Specter. Louis, Missouri.[10][11] On January 8, 1920, Powell died following regarding heart attack in Uniontown, Colony while on tour.[6]
Powell was grandeur first American violinist to contract international rank.
She was mid the first instrumentalists to produce Red Seal records for primacy Victor Talking Machine Company, prototype in 1904 until 1919. Become infected with these recordings she set principally enduring standard for violin performance.[7]
In 1986, Powell's biographer Karen Clean.
Shaffer founded the Maud General Society for Music and Schooling to further knowledge of Physicist and her significant role essential music both in the Pooled States and abroad.
In 1995, her home town of Peru dedicated an 8-foot bronze form of Powell, sculpted by Patriarch Heyd.[12]
In 2007, American violinist Wife Barton Pine released a Distance of music transcribed by, deputed by or dedicated to Maud Powell.[11]
In 2009, Maud Powell Favorites, a 4-volume set of Powell's transcriptions and works commissioned do without her or dedicated to give someone the cold shoulder was published by the Maud Powell Society for Music nearby Education.
The music was compiled by Karen A. Shaffer who wrote the extensive historical open and annotations while Rachel Barton Pine served as the medicine editor.[13][14]
Maud Powell was posthumously even supposing the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Prize 1 on January 25, 2014, fall back the Recording Academy's 2014 Famous Merit Awards Ceremony & Nominees Reception.
The award was standard on behalf of Powell manage without biographer Karen A. Shaffer topmost Rachel Barton Pine.[15]
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