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Shepherd music professor receives copyright to rare piano concerto
ISSUED: 11 June 2004
CONTACT: Valerie Owens
(Shepherd music professor receives copyright to rare piano concerto)
EDITOR--PLEASE NOTE: A digital photo is available here.
CUTLINE: Pictured (left to right) are: Dr. Scott Beard and Judith Siegel.
Shepherdstown, WV--In a ceremony held at The
Piano Company in Leesburg, Virginia, on June 5, Shepherd University music
professor Dr. Scott Beard was presented the copyright to Concerto
Symphonique, the only piano concerto written by nineteenth-century pianist
and pedagogue Theodor Leschetizky. Beard, who specializes in the music of
Leschetizky, wrote the first dissertation devoted to the pianist's
compositions and went on to record many of his works.
Beard received the copyright from its original owner, Judith Siegel
of Middletown, Maryland. Siegel discovered the concerto in 1972 during a
trip to Austria where she met Frau Ilse Koller-Leschetizky, the
granddaughter of Theodor Leschetizky. The manuscript for the concerto was
given to Siegel as a gift by Frau Koller-Leschetizky with the charge to have
it performed in the name of fine music and the name of her grandfather.
Siegel had the manuscript authenticated and copyrighted. A two-piano
score, orchestral score, parts, and conductor's score were also created. The
Concerto Symphonique, Op. 9 received world-premiere performances at the
Newport Romantic Music Festival in summer 1977 and with the Virginia Beach
Symphony in November 1977, with Frau Koller-Leschetizky and her daughter in
the audience.
Dr. Beard studied with Judith Siegel in the late 1970s and it was
through her influence that he went on to continue his professional work with
Leschetizky's music. Beard performed the concerto in New York and in
Washington, D.C. with the Georgetown Symphony Orchestra. He hopes to perform
the work with other orchestras and have it published and recorded.
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