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Edward Mitchell (pianist)

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43:" – and he often turned these into lecture-recitals in order to make the challenging music more intelligible to the public. Sometimes he would talk about a piece and play it twice, as he did with the Sonata, op. 64 at the Mortimer Hall, New Bond Street on 22 March 1921. He compiled a catalogue of Scriabin's piano music. 24:(1891–1950) was a British pianist and composer best known for his interpretations of Russian piano music between the 1910s and the 1940s. After the First World War he became assistant organist at 264: 182: 347: 342: 86: 337: 223: 39:
recitals in the 1920s and 1930s were highly regarded – he once proclaimed Scriabin "the greatest composer since
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Scriabin: A Complete Catalogue of His Piano Compositions, with Thematic Illustrations
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for orchestra with six horns, which was first performed in 1922. It won a
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As a composer Mitchell's greatest success was the 13 minute long
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on 3 February 1922, along with the first performance of his own
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was revived for its first modern performance in 1995 by the
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Mitchell performed the first complete performance of
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Westminster Cathedral
Royal College of Music
Scriabin
Beethoven
Medtner
Aeolian Hall
Sergei Lyapunov
John Ireland
Carnegie Trust
Carnegie Collection of British Music
Shelley
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth
Ballard, Lincoln and Bengtson, The Alexander Scriabin Companion (2017) p 70
Scriabin: A Complete Catalogue of His Piano Compositions, with Thematic Illustrations. Hawkes & Son, 1927
Music News and Herald, 11 February 1922, p 182
Radio Times Issue 183, 3 April 1927, p 10
Musical News and Herald, 15 April 1922
Musical Times, 1 November 1921, p 781
Radio Times Issue 55, 12 October 1924, p 105
Radio Times Issue 3744, 19 October 1995, p 128
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1891 births
1950 deaths
British classical pianists
British classical composers
20th-century British pianists

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