Sem Dresden – Sonate No. 2 for cello and piano – Video

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Sem Dresden - Sonate No. 2 for cello and piano
Sem Dresden (1881-1957) Sonate Nr. 2 voor cello en piano (1942) 1. Allegro molto - 00:00 2. Allegro agitato - 06:42 3. Poco lento - 12:36 Doris Hochscheid, cello Frans van Ruth, piano Sem Dresden was a Dutch composer and teacher. The scion of a diamond-broking family, his father tried to suppress his musical interests; nevertheless he managed to study with Roeske and Zweers in Amsterdam. On the strength of a promising student piano piece, he was sent in 1903 to study composition and conducting under Pfitzner at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. Pfitzner unexpectedly steered his compositional interests towards French Impressionism; he also encouraged Dresden to remain in Germany as an opera conductor. After two years, however, he returned to the Netherlands. There, aided by his wife Jacoba, a noted alto, he began a career as choral conductor; he also continued to compose. From 1914 to 1926 he directed the nine-member Madrigal Society, which earned international repute for its painstaking performances of Renaissance and contemporary choral music; it was succeeded, from 1928 to 1940, by a larger chamber choir in Haarlem. In 1919 he had been appointed head of composition at the Amsterdam Conservatory and was its director from 1924 to 1937. With Pijper in 1922 he established the Dutch ISCM chapter. His erudite articles in De Amsterdammer and De Telegraaf (1918--1927) were a progressive influence in Dutch musical life. Dresden was named director of the Royal Conservatory in The ...

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