Spanish pianist Ricardo Viñes was a confidante to Albéniz, Debussy, and Ravel; some of his most famous and beloved works to be found in the canon of piano music were first heard under his hands -- both books of Debussy's Images, L'isle Joyeuse, Ravel's Pavane, Jeux d'eau, and Miroirs. Trapped in Barcelona behind Franco's regime during the Spanish Civil War, Viñes spent his last years in poverty, unable to return to Paris where his artistry was valued. Although he died in 1943, more than a decade passed before his personal ...
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Spanish pianist Ricardo Viñes was a confidante to Albéniz, Debussy, and Ravel; some of his most famous and beloved works to be found in the canon of piano music were first heard under his hands -- both books of Debussy's Images, L'isle Joyeuse, Ravel's Pavane, Jeux d'eau, and Miroirs. Trapped in Barcelona behind Franco's regime during the Spanish Civil War, Viñes spent his last years in poverty, unable to return to Paris where his artistry was valued. Although he died in 1943, more than a decade passed before his personal collection of music scores was made available on the open market, and the University of Boulder in Colorado obtained them "for a song," ultimately scattering the 800-plus scores among the general population of its music library. With the help of Boulder librarian Laurie Sampsel, pianist David Korevaar has worked to reassemble this priceless treasure, and Koch's The Ricardo Viñes Collection features Korevaar's rendering of several previously unknown works by French composers dating...
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