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Marie Novello (1898 – 21 June 1928) was a Welsh pianist. She was one of Theodor Leschetizky's last students and performed in public from childhood. Her early death from throat cancer cut short a promising career just as she began to record for one of the major English labels, having already amassed a considerable discography for one of its second-rank competitors.〔(Biographical sketch ) at the Naxos records Web site, accessed 6 November 2008〕 ==Life== Marie Novello was born Marie Williams, in 1898 in Maesteg, Glamorgan, the daughter of one William Thomas Williams and Anne Bedlington Kirkhouse.〔Ancestry: Welsh censuses and Probate Records〕 She owed her name to adoption by her piano teacher, Clara Novello Davies, mother of Ivor Novello and also a celebrated singing teacher. Following studies with her mother, Marie was among the last students of Theodor Leschetizky. He denied her first request to study with him in 1912, as she spoke only English; she responded by learning German, whereupon he relented.〔 Novello's professional career began early. As a child, Novello won the principal piano prize at the Welsh National Eisteddfod,〔 and she shared piano playing honors with Ferruccio Busoni at the September 1907 Cardiff Triennial Music Festival.〔http://www.concertprogrammes.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/4351 National Arts & Humainities Research Council, Concert Programmes〕 In 1908, she toured the English provinces with a company assembled by Percy Harrison, a promoter who regularly organized such groups; among her compatriots were John McCormack, fresh from his first season at the Royal Opera House and participating in a Harrison tour for the first time, and Emma Albani.〔(The John McCormack Society, ''Biography of John McCormack'', Chapter 2 )〕 Around the same time, a 10-year-old Novello performed at Wigmore Hall, then known as Bechstein Hall. A year later, in 1909, she made the first of her seven appearances at the Promenade Concerts, when on 22 September she played the Piano Concerto no. 1 in E-flat by Franz Liszt accompanied by the Queen's Hall Orchestra led by Sir Henry Wood. She repeated that appearance every year until 1914, with two appearances in 1912, always in concerted works accompanied by the same forces. Besides the Liszt concerto, which she reprised in 1910, she performed the same composer's Hungarian Fantasia (1911 and 1912); Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto no. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 (1912); and the Africa Fantasy, Op. 89, of Camille Saint-Saëns (1913 and 1914).〔(BBC Proms Archive Web site, accessed 14 August 2011 )〕 Aside from these festival performances, Novello performed regularly in London during her teen years, often as one of multiple soloists sharing a recital. In her early twenties, she began appearing at Ballad Concerts and Sunday League Concerts and in music festivals at Brighton and Cardiff.〔 Novello traveled to the United States in late 1921, arriving on 28 December aboard the White Star Line liner RMS ''Olympic''.〔("Marie Novello Arrives" ), ''The New York Times'', 29 December 1921〕 On 21 January 1922 she made her debut in Chicago. A month later, on 23 February 1922, she made her New York debut at The Town Hall, where she played a program including works of Chopin, Domenico Scarlatti, Debussy, Selim Palmgren, and Ede Poldini.〔("Marie Novello, Pianist, in Debut" ), ''The New York Times'', 24 February 1922, accessed 5 November 2008〕 During this period, she made numerous recordings for the English Edison Bell. Marie Novello recorded reproducing piano rolls for the Aeolian Company's Duo-Art system;〔(Duo-Art Piano Roll Catalogue ), Albert M. Petrak, ed. The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation, accessed 6 November 2008〕 doubtless as a fruit of this connection, she once partnered with a reproducing piano in a public performance of the Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for two pianos, four hands by Saint-Saëns. A few years later, at the dawn of electrical recording, she formed an association with HMV, but throat cancer claimed her life when she had recorded only a few sides.〔 Novello died on 21 June 1928 in London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marie Novello」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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