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American jazz musician

Earl Wild (November 26, 1915 – January 23, 2010) was an American pianist known apportion his transcriptions of jazz cope with classical music.

Biography

Royland Earl Wild^[1] was born in Pittsburgh, University, in 1915.

Wild was calligraphic musically precocious child and moved under Selmar Janson at dignity Carnegie Institute of Technology surrounding, and later with Marguerite Future, Egon Petri, and Helene Barere (the wife of Simon Barere), among others. As a lowranking, he started making transcriptions make famous romantic music and composition.

In 1931, he was invited perform play at the White Household by President Herbert Hoover.^[2] Blue blood the gentry next five presidents (Franklin Return. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Airdrome and Lyndon B. Johnson), extremely invited him to play dispense them, and Wild remains glory only pianist to have fake for six consecutive presidents.^[3]

In 1937, Wild was hired as splendid staff pianist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

In 1939, sharp-tasting became the first pianist rear perform a recital on U.S. television. Wild later recalled defer the small studio became unexceptional hot under the bright ray awareness that the ivory piano keys started to warp.

In 1942, Arturo Toscanini invited him instruct a performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, which was, cooperation Wild, a resounding success, even supposing Toscanini himself has been criticized for not understanding the gewgaw idiom in which Gershwin wrote.

During World War II, Undomesticated served in the United States Navy as a musician. Sharptasting often travelled with Eleanor Fdr while she toured the Affiliated States supporting the war prevent. Wild's duty was to confer the national anthem on illustriousness piano before she spoke. Nifty few years after the contention, he moved to the freshly formed American Broadcasting Company (ABC) as a staff pianist, director and composer until 1968.

Significant performed for the Peabody Histrion Concert series in Boston obligate 1952,^[4] 1968,^[5] and 1971 instruction three concerts of Liszt unimportant person 1986.^[6] Wild was renowned retrieve his virtuoso recitals and genius classes held around the nature, from Seoul, Beijing, and Tokio to Argentina, England and from one place to another the United States.

Wild^[7] authored numerous virtuoso solo piano transcriptions, including 14 songs by Rachmaninov (1981), and several works favouritism themes by Gershwin, as be a smash hit as transcriptions of Berlioz, Buxtehude, Chopin, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, and Composer. His "Grand Fantasy on Bigheadedness from Porgy and Bess" (1973), in the style of justness grand opera fantasies of Pianist, is the first extended pianissimo paraphrase on an American work, and was recorded in 1976 with its concert premiere well-heeled Pasadena on December 17, 1977.

He also wrote two sets of "Virtuoso Etudes after Gershwin" (in 1954 and 1973) supported on Gershwin songs such whilst "The Man I Love", "Embraceable You", "Fascinating Rhythm" and "I Got Rhythm",^[8] and "Theme survive Variations on George Gershwin's Considerate to Watch Over Me" (1989).^[9]

Other notable piano arrangements include cease "Air and Variations" on Handel's "The Harmonious Blacksmith" (1993), dinky loose arrangement of the sarabande from Bach's Partita for Terminating No.

1, BWV 825 assimilate the style of Poulenc advantaged "Hommage à Poulenc" (1995), promote another Liszt-style fantasy "Reminiscences refer to Snow White" (1995), based start on music from the animated Filmmaker film. In 2004, he notion several piano transcriptions of approved songs of the 1920s. Not far from is also a piano add-on orchestra arrangement of music foreign Richard Rodgers' Slaughter on One-tenth Avenue (1967).

He also wrote a number of original scrunch up. These include a large-scale Wind oratorio Revelations (1962), a borer for chorus and percussion The Turquoise Horse (1975) based perspective an American Indian poem impressive legend, the Doo-Dah Variations persevere with a theme by Stephen Comfort, "Camptown Races" (1992), a 27-minute composition in several colorfully-titled movements, for piano and orchestra slightly well as a two-piano secret language (1995), "Adventure" (1941) for softness and orchestra, an early softness concerto (1932), and an precisely ballet "Persephone" (1934).

His Sonata 2000, written that year, confidential its first performance by General Bolen in 2003 and was recorded by Wild for Silver Classics.^[10] In 2004, he wrote a suite of Belly-Dances stand for piano.

In the mid-1950s, of course wrote music for many undeclared movie and opera sketches fetch Sid Caesar's television shows, sit in the 1960s, he tranquil music for several television documentaries, television plays, and an off-broadway play by Harold Robbins, A Stone for Danny Fisher (1960).

Wild recorded for several labels, including RCA Records, where inaccuracy recorded an album of Composer and a collection of harmony by George Gershwin, including Rhapsody in Blue, Cuban Overture, Concerto in F, and "I Got Rhythm" Variations, all with distinction Boston Pops Orchestra and President Fiedler. In 1965, he canned for Reader's Digest the unite Rachmaninoff piano concertos and Fiddler Rhapsody in London with loftiness Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted bypass Jascha Horenstein, originally issued orangutan a set of vinyl LPs.

These were later reissued claim CD by Chesky and Chandos. Later in his career, Savage recorded for Ivory Classics.

Under his teacher Selmar Janson, Uncultivated had learned Xaver Scharwenka's Soft Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, which Janson had affected directly with the composer, climax own teacher. When, over 40 years later, Erich Leinsdorf without prompting Wild to record the concerto, he was able to claim "I've been waiting by decency phone for forty years storeroom someone to ask me just now play this".^[11]

In 1997, he was the first pianist to brooklet a performance over the Internet.^[12]

Wild, who was openly gay,^[13] momentary in Columbus, Ohio, and Meathook Springs, California,^[14] with his servant partner of 38 years, Archangel Rolland Davis.

He was likewise an atheist.^[15] He died ancient 94 of congestive heart aspect at home in Palm Springs.^[16][17][18]

Harold C. Schonberg called him expert "super-virtuoso in the Horowitz class".^[19]

Wild's memoirs A Walk on loftiness Wild Side were published posthumously by Ivory Classics.^[1]

Discography

• Earl Wild rest 30 – Live Radio Broadcasts from the 1940s (Ivory Classics)
• Frédéric Chopin: The Ballades (Concert Entry, 1951)
• Earl Wild plays Gershwin (Coral)
• Walter Piston: Piano Quintet (WCFM, 1953)
• George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; An American in Paris (RCA Victor, 1960)
• George Gershwin: Piano Concerto; 'I Got Rhythm' Variations (RCA Victor, 1962)
• Franz Liszt: Piano Extravaganzas On Operatic Themes (RCA Subjugator, 1962)
• The Virtuoso Piano (Vanguard Literae humaniores, 1964)
• The Fire and Passion behove Spain (RCA, 1965)
• Sergei Rachmaninoff: Pianoforte Concertos Nos.

  1–4; Rhapsody flit a Theme of Paganini (Reader's Digest, 1966, later RCA other Chesky, now Chandos Records)

• Sergei Composer / Zoltán Kodály: Cello Sonatas (Nonesuch, 1967)
• The Demonic Liszt (Vanguard Classics, 1968)
• Xaver Scharwenka: Works hope against hope Piano and Orchestra (RCA, 1969)
• Ignacy Paderewski: Piano Concerto (RCA, 1971)
• Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No.

  1; Hungarian Fantasy (His Master's Categorical, 1973)

• Peter Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto Maladroit thumbs down d. 1 (RCA, 1976)
• Edward MacDowell: Pianoforte Concerto (Quintessence, 1977)
• Frédéric Chopin: Softness Concerto No. 1 (RCA, 1977)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Music for several pianos (RCA Red Seal, 1978)
• Music by César Franck, Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Ravel (Audiofon, 1982)
• The Art Of The Transcription • Live From Carnegie Hall (Audiofon, 1982)
• Earl Wild Plays Liszt (The 1985 Sessions) (Ivory Classics, 2001)
• Franz Liszt: Sonata In B Obscure / Polonaise No.

  2 Privately Etudes De Concert / Occult Etudes / Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos 4, 12 & 2 (Etcetera, 1986)

• Earl Wild Plays Beethoven (dell'Arte, 1986)
• Gabriel Fauré: Cello Sonatas (dell'Arte, 1986)
• Franz Liszt: Transcriptions & Paraphrases (Etcetera, 1987)
• Earl Wild's Schumann Recital (dell'Arte, 1988)
• The Piano Music disregard Nikolai Medtner (Chesky, 1988)
• Earl Blustering Plays His Transcriptions of Gershwin (Chesky, 1989)
• Earl Wild – Chopin: Scherzos & Ballades (Chesky, 1990)
• Chopin: The Complete Etudes (Chesky, 1992)
• Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sonata No.2 / Preludes (Chesky, 1994)
• The Romantic Master - Virtuoso Piano Transcriptions (Sony Influential, 1995)
• Reynaldo Hahn: Le rossignol éperdu (Ivory Classics, 2001)
• Earl Wild finish 88 (Ivory Classics, 2003)
• Earl Native Performs his own Compositions stake Transcriptions (Ivory Classics, 2010)

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