Carl Wilhelm Kern: Evening Song, Op.84

Описание: Phillip Sear plays a 1905 "salonstück" by the German/American composer Carl Wilhelm Kern (1874–1945).
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Per the Gaylord Music Library website ( http://bit.ly/2eVWN6e ), “Carl Wilhelm Kern was born on June 4, 1874 in Schlitz, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany and died in St. Louis on August 19, 1945. Kern was a pianist, theorist, editor, and composer who studied at Mayence Conservatory of Music. He was first taught by his father Carl August Kern and then by Friedrich Lux, Paul Schumacher, and Adam Coy. He came to the United States in 1893 and taught at Elmhurst (Ill.) College of Music, 1893-94; was an organist in Merrill, Wisconsin, 1894-95; taught at Springfield (Ohio) School of Music 1895-98; and Dennison (Ohio) School of Music, 1898-1903. He concurrently served as supervisor of Music, Dennison (Ohio) Public Schools, 1898-1903. He was in St. Louis briefly in 1903 before taking a position at Baptist University, Dallas, Tex., 1903-04. Kern then returned to St. Louis to join the Strassberger’s Conservatory of Music from 1904 until 1922. In 1923, he joined the Ottmar Moll Piano School as Teacher of Theory.”

He apparently wrote over a thousand piano pieces, and operettas, songs and organ pieces. Certainly, he had exceeded Op. 700 by 1936.

This piece was dedicated to twin sisters, Clenia and Cleila (misspelt Clelia on the score) George. They were born in Ohio in 1884. Sadly, Clenia died young (in 1914), but Cleila went on to marry and, as Cleila Wagstaff, died in 1987 aged 103, outliving her twin by well over 70 years!

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