Richard Burmeister (1860-1933) was a German pianist, composer and Liszt pupil. He
did not make any discs but made a number of Liszt rolls.
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) was an Italian pianist and composer. He played for Liszt
on 16 March 1873 when he was seven but was never a pupil. He became a celebrated
Liszt scholar and pianist and his playing of Liszt’s works met with the approval of Liszt
pupil Arthur Friedheim. He made rolls of Liszt’s Gnömenreigen and Feux Follets. There
is a moderate amount of mannerisms in his playing.
Teresa Carreño (1853-1917) was a Venezuelan pianist, singer, conductor and composer.
She made a number of rolls including rolls of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody no. 6 and
Petrarcan Sonnet no. 47. Her playing was very free, ‘old-fashioned’ and full of
mannerisms, and repeated several times some segments of the ‘passages’. Mme Carreño
wrote and signed a confirmation that when the roll was played back by the Welte
reproducing piano it exactly reproduced her playing specifically of the Hungarian
Rhapsody no. 6. She was at one time married to Liszt pupil Eugen d’Albert.
Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) was a French pianist and composer. She wrote mainly
character pieces for piano and salon songs, almost all of which were published. She
toured France, England and America as a pianist largely playing her own works which
were very popular. She made a number of discs and rolls of her compositions.
Shura Cherkassky (1909-1995) was a Russian pianist. He made four acoustic sides,
including an original composition, in about 1923 at the age of eleven. He is the only
pianist whose recording career spanned from acoustic discs to digitally recorded CDs.
Fanny Davies (1861-1934) was an English pianist. She studied under Clara Schumann
and was particularly admired for her performances of Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms.
She inherited the Schumann tradition through Mme Schumann and recorded on disc the
Schumann piano concerto, Kinderszenen and a number of the Davidsbündlertänze. She
also recorded the Kinderszenen on roll in which she used arpeggiata and melody-delaying
to a moderate extent.
Louis Diémer (1843-1919) was a French pianist. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire
where he was a pupil of Antoine Marmontel for piano, Ambroise Thomas for
composition and François Benoist for organ. He quickly built a reputation as a piano
virtuoso and toured with the violinist Pablo de Sarasate. At the Conservatoire he taught
Edouard Risler, Alfred Cortot, Lazare Lévy, Alfredo Casella and Robert Casadesus. He
composed a piano concerto and a number of salon pieces. It is not known whether as a
young boy he heard Chopin play but he must have been close to the Chopin tradition.
Diémer performed premières of works by Saint-Saëns, Franck, Fauré and Lalo and
Franck dedicated his Variations Symphoniques to him. Diémer was one of the earliest
pianists to make discs, mainly of his own salon pieces. His disc of the Chopin D flat
nocturne made in 1903-1904 shows his playing to have been neat and refined with a fair
amount of melody-delaying, a large amount of the Chopin hastening and lingering rubato