Coenraad V. Bos
Coenraad Valentijn Bos (7 December 1875 – 5 August 1955) was a Dutch pianist, most notably as an accompanist to singers of lieder.[1] His peers such as Gerald Moore considered him the doyen of accompanists in his day.[2]
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Biography
He was born in Leiden in 1875. He studied under Julius Röntgen and at the Berlin High School for Music.[3][better source needed] He decided early to become an accompanist, a field of which he made a special study.
On 9 November 1896, in the presence of the composer, and still a month shy of his 21st birthday, he accompanied the Dutch baritone Anton Sistermans at the premiere of Brahms' Vier ernste Gesänge in Vienna.[4][5]
For many years he worked with singers such as Raimund von zur-Mühlen, Elena Gerhardt (USA tour 1920, Spanish tour 1928), Julia Culp, Frieda Hempel, Alexander Kipnis,[6][better source needed] Gervase Elwes, Ludwig Wüllner and Helen Traubel (he accompanied Traubel on a world tour in 1945-46).[5]
He appeared with the 13-year-old Yehudi Menuhin in Berlin on 23 April 1929,[7] and they exchanged inscribed photographs of themselves in commemoration of the event[5] (Bos's gift to Menuhin is now in the Museum of the Royal Academy of Music[8]).
He recorded lieder of Brahms, Reger, Schubert, Schumann and Wolf with Elena Gerhardt (1927–32). He figures prominently in the Hugo Wolf Society's Complete Edition 1931-38, accompanying Gerhardt, Herbert Janssen, Gerhard Hüsch, Alexandra Trianti and Elisabeth Rethberg.[9][10]
He died in Chappaqua, New York, United States on 5 August 1955, aged 79.[1][3][11]
Legacy
He preserved his musical memories in "The Well-tempered Accompanist" (1949; co-written with Ashley Pettis).[12][13]
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References
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- ↑ His name appeared in older sources as Coenraad van Bos, but that was an error; his middle name was Valentijn (also spelt Valentyn) leading to the form Coenraad V. Bos.
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- ↑ Some sources say he died in Mount Kisco on 6 August.
- ↑ http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001457501
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/The-Well-Tempered-Accompanist-Coenraad-Bos/dp/B000WHBDX4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1337639390&sr=8-2