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'''Carl Filtsch''' ([[1830]] - [[1845]]) was a [[Transylvania|Transylvanian]] child prodigy, and student of [[Frederic Chopin]]. He was a [[pianist]] and [[composer]]. <ref>Szulc, Tad (1998). Chopin in Paris: the life and times of the romantic composer. Simon and Schuster, USA. ISBN 0-306-80933-8</ref> |
'''Carl Filtsch''' ([[1830]] - [[1845]]) was a [[Transylvania|Transylvanian]] child prodigy, and student of [[Frederic Chopin]]. He was a [[pianist]] and [[composer]]. <ref name="Szulc">Szulc, Tad (1998). Chopin in Paris: the life and times of the romantic composer. Simon and Schuster, USA. ISBN 0-306-80933-8</ref> |
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Filtsch was born in [[Sebeş|Sebeş-Alba-Mühlbach]] in modern-day [[Romania]]. |
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Filtsch was born in [[Sebeş|Sebeş-Alba-Mühlbach]] in modern-day [[Romania]]. His father, a prominent chess player, was his first piano teacher. Carl and his brother Joseph, also a child pianist, arrived in Paris on November 29, 1841 and immediately sought out Chopin to be Carl's teacher. Though Chopin almost never taught children, and rarely gave a student more than one lesson per week, he agreed to teach Carl, and gave him three lessons per week. |
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Considered Chopin's most talented pupil, Filtsch received high praise from [[Franz Liszt]], [[Friedrich Wieck]], [[Giacomo Meyerbeer]], [[Ignaz Moscheles]], the music critic [[Ludwig Rellstab]], and fellow child prodigy, [[Anton Rubinstein]]. Filtsch began touring Europe on concert tours at the age of 13. After triumphant concerts in [[Paris]], [[London]], and [[Vienna]], his promising career was cut short by an early death in Vienna from an unknown illness. |
Considered Chopin's most talented pupil, Filtsch received high praise from [[Franz Liszt]], [[Friedrich Wieck]], [[Giacomo Meyerbeer]], [[Ignaz Moscheles]], the music critic [[Ludwig Rellstab]], and fellow child prodigy, [[Anton Rubinstein]]. Filtsch began touring Europe on concert tours at the age of 13. After triumphant concerts in [[Paris]], [[London]], and [[Vienna]], his promising career was cut short by an early death in Vienna from an unknown illness. |
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==Quality of Playing== |
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According to numerous letters from Chopin and his acquaintances, Chopin considered Filtsch the most worthy interpreter of his music. A friend of Chopin's, Ferdinand Denis, reported in an article in Vienna's ''Der Humorist'' in February 1843 that on one occasion after listening to Filtsch, Chopin exclaimed, "My God! What a child! Nobody has ever understood me as this child has...It is not imitation, it is the same sentiment, an instinct that makes him play without thinking as if it could not have been any other way. He plays almost all my compositions without having heard me [play them], without being shown the smallest thing - not exactly like me [because he has his own cachet], but certainly not less well." |
According to numerous letters from Chopin and his acquaintances, Chopin considered Filtsch the most worthy interpreter of his music. A friend of Chopin's, Ferdinand Denis, reported in an article in Vienna's ''Der Humorist'' in February 1843 that on one occasion after listening to Filtsch, Chopin exclaimed, "My God! What a child! Nobody has ever understood me as this child has...It is not imitation, it is the same sentiment, an instinct that makes him play without thinking as if it could not have been any other way. He plays almost all my compositions without having heard me [play them], without being shown the smallest thing - not exactly like me [because he has his own cachet], but certainly not less well." <ref name="Szulc"/> |
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Carl Filtsch | |
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| Born | 1830 |
| Died | 1845 |
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Carl Filtsch (1830 - 1845) was a Transylvanian child prodigy, and student of Frederic Chopin. He was a pianist and composer. [1]
Life and Education
Filtsch was born in Sebeş-Alba-Mühlbach in modern-day Romania. His father, a prominent chess player, was his first piano teacher. Carl and his brother Joseph, also a child pianist, arrived in Paris on November 29, 1841 and immediately sought out Chopin to be Carl's teacher. Though Chopin almost never taught children, and rarely gave a student more than one lesson per week, he agreed to teach Carl, and gave him three lessons per week.
Considered Chopin's most talented pupil, Filtsch received high praise from Franz Liszt, Friedrich Wieck, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Ignaz Moscheles, the music critic Ludwig Rellstab, and fellow child prodigy, Anton Rubinstein. Filtsch began touring Europe on concert tours at the age of 13. After triumphant concerts in Paris, London, and Vienna, his promising career was cut short by an early death in Vienna from an unknown illness.
Quality of Playing
According to numerous letters from Chopin and his acquaintances, Chopin considered Filtsch the most worthy interpreter of his music. A friend of Chopin's, Ferdinand Denis, reported in an article in Vienna's Der Humorist in February 1843 that on one occasion after listening to Filtsch, Chopin exclaimed, "My God! What a child! Nobody has ever understood me as this child has...It is not imitation, it is the same sentiment, an instinct that makes him play without thinking as if it could not have been any other way. He plays almost all my compositions without having heard me [play them], without being shown the smallest thing - not exactly like me [because he has his own cachet], but certainly not less well." [1]
References
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