Hutcheson, Ernest. (1871-1951)
Capriccio op. 4 - Autograph Musical Quotation
AMQS from the Australian pianist, composer, and teacher who would later become Dean and then President of the Juilliard School. Four measures, identified by the composer as Capriccio op. 4 no. 4. Signed and dated Berlin, June 7, 1914. Hutcheson was teaching at the time at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, but left later in 1914 to settle in New York. Slight spotting; otherwise in very fine condition. 13.3 x 8.5 cm.After touring as a child prodigy in Australia, Hutcheson arrived in Leipzig at the age of fourteen to study with Carl Reinecke, Bernhard Stavenhagen (a pupil of Franz Liszt) and Bruno Zwintscher. He is believed to have been the first pianist to play three concertos of Ludwig van Beethoven in a single concert. He became a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School, and successively Dean (1926–1937) and President (1937–1945) of the school, where he championed the use of radio musical broadcasts in education. He was the author of concertos for piano, 2 pianos, and violin, and many solo piano works, as well as important standard works on piano literature. (12902)
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