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About Julius Schulhoff: Works For Piano
Julius Schulhoff (great-uncle of composer Erwin Schulhoff!) was born in Prague, Bohemia, on August 2, 1825. He studied with some of the musical greats of that cultured city Kisch, Tedesco, and Tomashek. Like many another budding pianistic talent, he left home as a mere teenager, attracted as if by some magic lodestone to Paris, where artists traded ideas and ideals and intelligentsia mixed with royalty. The young Bohemian s playing advanced rapidly. Witness Chopin s reaction in 1844, as described by his biographer, Moritz Karasowski: Chopin drew nearer and nearer, listening with growing interest to the refined, poetical playing...; his pale face lit up, and by look and gesture he testified his warm approval. When Schulhoff had finished, Chopin held out his hand, saying 'Vous êtes un vrai artiste un collège.' Schulhoff also made a profound impression on the young Theodor Leschetizky and it is worth the lengthy quote to hear his impression of Schulhoff: Leschetizky veritably quivers as he describes Schulhoff s performance: Under his hands the piano seemed like another instrument. Seated in a corner, my heart overflowing with indescribable emotions as I listened. Not a note escaped me. I began to foresee a new style of playing. That melody standing out in bold relief, that wonderful sonority all this must be due to a new and entirely different touch. And that cantabile, a legato such as I had not dreamed possible on the piano, a human voice rising above the sustaining harmonies! I could hear the shepherd sing, and see him...[I considered it] the playing of the future...[After playing brilliantly myself], I felt a great poverty of soul in myself and cordially detested my own success. Overwhelmed with a sense of inadequacy and unable to contain myself, I fled to the farthest room and burst into tears. Schulhoff s playing was a revelation to me. From that day I tried to find that touch. I thought of it constantly, and studied the five fingers diligently to learn the metho
