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Eugen (originally Eugène) Francois Charles d'Albert (10 April 18643 March 1932) was a Scottish-born German pianist and composer. Educated in Britain, d'Albert showed early musical talent and, at the age of seventeen, he won a scholarship to study in Austria. Feeling a kinship with German culture and music, he soon emigrated to Germany, where he studied with Franz Liszt and began a career as a concert pianist. D'Albert repudiated his early training and upbringing in Scotland and considered himself German. While pursuing his career as a pianist, d'Albert focused increasingly on composing, producing 21 operas and a considerable output of piano, vocal, chamber and orchestral works. His most successful opera was ''Tiefland'', which premiered in Prague in 1903. His successful orchestral works included his cello concerto (1899), a symphony, two string quartets and two piano concertos. In 1907, d'Albert became the director of the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where he exerted a wide influence on musical education in Germany. He also held the post of Kapellmeister to the Court of Weimar. D'Albert was married six times, including to the pianist-singer Teresa Carreño, and was successively a British, German and Swiss citizen. ==Biography== D'Albert was born at 4 Crescent Place,〔The nearby address of 9 Newton Terrace has been widely copied in the literature and on the web, but 4 Crescent Place is given in the statutory register of births (Gen. Reg. Office Scotland ref 644/08 0715) and in the notice of Eugène's birth in the Glasgow Herald of 12 May 1864.〕 Glasgow, Scotland, to an English mother, Annie Rowell, and a German-born father of French and Italian descent, Charles Louis Napoléon d'Albert (1809–1886), whose ancestors included the composers Giuseppe Matteo Alberti and Domenico Alberti.〔Williamson, John. ("Albert, Eugen d'" ), Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online, accessed 13 October 2008〕 D'Albert's father was a pianist, arranger and a prolific composer of salon music〔See works by Charles d'Albert at imslp.org: http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Albert,_Charles_d'〕 who had been ballet-master at the King's Theatre and at Covent Garden.〔Sands, John. ("Dance Arrangements from the Savoy Operas" ). ''The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive'', 4 April 2010〕〔(Dance arrangements by Charles d'Albert of numerous Gilbert and Sullivan pieces )〕 D'Albert was born when his father was 55 years old. ''The Musical Times'' wrote in 1904 that "This, and other circumstances, accounted for a certain loneliness in the boy's home-life and the years of his childhood. He was misunderstood, and 'cribbed, cabined, and confined' to such an extent as to largely prejudice him against the country which gave him birth".〔''The Musical Times'', vol. 45, no. 741, 1 November 1904, pp. 697–700〕 D'Albert was brought up in Glasgow and taught music by his father until he won a scholarship to the new National Training School for Music (forerunner of the Royal College of Music) in London, which he entered in 1876 at the age of 12.〔 D'Albert studied at the National Training School with Ernst Pauer, Ebenezer Prout, John Stainer and Arthur Sullivan. By the age of 14, he was winning public praise from ''The Times'' as "a bravura player of no mean order" in a concert in October 1878. He played Schumann's Piano Concerto at the Crystal Palace in 1880, receiving more encouragement from ''The Times'': "A finer rendering of the work has seldom been heard."〔''The Times'' 17 October 1878, p. 4〕〔''The Times'', 8 February 1881, p. 8〕 Also in 1880, d'Albert arranged the piano reduction for the vocal score of Sullivan's sacred music drama ''The Martyr of Antioch'', to accompany the chorus in rehearsal.〔(Information about ''The Martyr of Antioch'' )〕 He is also credited with writing the overture to Gilbert and Sullivan's 1881 opera, ''Patience''.〔Biographer Michael Ainger wrote that on the evening of 21 April 1881, "Sullivan gave his sketch of the overture to Eugene d'Albert to score. D'Albert was a seventeen-year-old student ... and winner of the Mendelssohn Scholarship that year" (Ainger, p. 195). David Russell Hulme studied the handwriting in the manuscript score of ''Patience'' and confirmed that it is that of Eugene, not of his father Charles (as had erroneously been reported by biographer Arthur Jacobs), both of whose script Hulme sampled. (Hulme, David Russell, Doctoral Thesis ''The Operettas of Sir Arthur Sullivan: a study of available autograph full scores'', 1985, University of Wales, pp. 242–43. The Thesis is available from academic libraries including The British Library Document Supply Centre, Boston Spa, Wetherby W. Yorks, Ref # DX171353, and Northern Illinois University, Call# :ML410.S95 H841986B)〕 For many years, d'Albert dismissed his training and work during this period as worthless.〔Mitchell, Mark and Allan Evans (Extensive notes on d'Albert ), Arbiter of Cultural Traditions website (2004)〕 ''The Times'' wrote that he "was born and educated in England, and won his earliest successes in England, although, in a freak of boyish impetuosity, he repudiated some years ago all connexion with this country, where, according to his own account, he was born by mere accident and where he learnt nothing."〔''The Times'', 25 May 1886, p. 10〕 In later years, however, he modified his views: "The former prejudice which I had against England, which several incidents aroused, has completely vanished since many years."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eugen d'Albert」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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