FREDERIC D'ERLANGER: PIANO CONCERTO

FREDERIC ALFRED D'ERLANGER: PIANO CONCERTO
Concerto Symphonique for piano and orchestra (1921)
Victor Sangiorgio (Piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Johannes Wildner (Conductor)

i Maestoso – Allegretto – Allegro
ii Scherzo: Marcato e staccato
iii Moderato assai – Larghetto –
iv Moderato ma appassionato

PHOTOS: PARIS AND MONT SAINT MICHEL

Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger
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Baron Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger (29 May 1868 – 23 April 1943[1]) was an Anglo-French composer, banker and patron of the arts. His father, Baron Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger, was a German[2] head of a French banking house,[3] his mother, Mathilde (née Slidell),[4] was an American.[1]

One of four sons,[5] d'Erlanger was born in Paris.[2] He began his musical studies in Paris under Anselm Ehmant,[1] his only teacher. His first work, a book of songs, was published when d'Erlanger was 20 years of age. Shortly afterwards, in 1886, he moved to London with his elder brother, Baron Emile Beaumont d'Erlanger, to work as a banker,[2] for the private banking firm that his father owned.[3] Both d'Erlanger and his brother became naturalised Englishmen.[3] His compositions include works of all kinds
A millionaire,[9] d'Erlanger was described as a "genuine Renaissance man"; he was a noted patron of the arts in London and invested in developing countries, financing department store chains in South America and railways in South Africa.[2]

D'Erlanger was a founding member of the Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club.[10] "Baron Fred", as he was known, was a frequent participant in the regular Thursday musical soirées of the club.
In 1925, d'Erlanger married Catherine, "a French woman of good family"