[Violinists & Cellists] Silva, Luigi. (1903 - 1961)
Signed Photograph to José Echániz
Uncommon signed 8 x 10 inch doubleweight photograph of the important cellist and pedagogue, signed and inscribed in 1949 to the pianist José Echániz. In fine condition.Luigi Silva is remembered as a distinguished musician, teacher, and scholar of the violoncello. Born in Milan, he studied with Ottorino Respighi in Rome and Rosario Scalero in New York. Winning the Boccherini Prize at the First National Competition in Rome in 1933, he toured Europe with the Quartetto di Roma, and migrated to the United States and eventually became a US citizen. Silva debuted as a performer to his American audience during a joint recital with Leopold Mannes in 1941. Silva served as faculty member to the Juilliard School of Music, the Mannes Music School, and the Yale University School of Music. As a musicologist, Silva is acclaimed for his pedagogical studies of cello techniques and fingering, having transcribed for violoncello the primary works of several composers, including Bach and Paganini, and having authored the five volume treatise, Vademecum, which includes an extensive study of the "Thumb-Position Technique."
Pianist José Echániz (1905-1969), a Cuban-born child prodigy, studied at the Falcon Conservatory in Havana, where he was awarded the title “professor of piano” at age 14. During the 1920s, he appeared at Carnegie Hall, toured U.S. cities, and appeared in Paris, The Hague, Amsterdam, and Madrid. During the 1930’s, he was a featured soloist with orchestras in Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and New Orleans and appeared under the batons of such distinguished conductors as Iturbi, Mitropoulos, Kleiber, Leinsdorf, and others. Echániz joined the Eastman School faculty in 1944. Throughout his 25-year teaching career, Echániz maintained an active career as a recitalist in Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean, as an orchestral soloist, and as a recording artist. (12601)
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