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International shipping: approx postage 1x10"=$25: 1x12"=$36: 10"Album 4 Rec=50$: 12" Album 2 Rec=50$
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Great Recording by Dutch Pianist and composer DIRK SCHAEFER

from his first 1924 acoustic Deutsche Grammophon Session

Chopin Marche Funebre / Etude  Op 25.11 Columbia 12" 78 rpm record.

 

Condition: Very good plus plus, shiny and undamaged., plays quiet w light crackly ticks. Loud buzzing and spitting on a few loud passages.  sounds VG+(+)/ VG++

Plays very quiet faint hiss, crakc sounds mildly first half of record, few pops and ticks, Valse has light swish, few spots of distortions on the second half, some ticks and clicks = VG

 

Dirk Schäfer (1873-1931) was a Dutch pianist, composer and writer, born in Rotterdam.
He studied piano at the Conservatory of Cologne with Max Pauer.
Chopin was one of his specialties.
Like Anton Rubinstein, he organized a series of historical concerts (1913) in which he surveyed piano literature from Byrd and Bull to Debussy and Schönberg.
He was also one of the first musicians to go back to the composer's original manuscript.
His aphorisms, thoughts and contemplations on piano playing, art and music were assembled in a book, "Het Klavier". He began his piano studies in 1888 at the Rotterdam Music School, and then studied with the support of a government scholarship at the Cologne Conservatory (1891-1894) with Pauer (piano) and Wüllner (composition); in 1892 he won the Mendelssohn Prize of Berlin. After his return to Holland he made many concert tours of Germany, France, Austria and Belgium, though his artistic sensitivity kept him from travelling as an international virtuoso. In 1913-1915 he gave a series of 11 concerts surveying the keyboard literature from Byrd to Debussy and Schoenberg; later in life he specialized in Chopin. Het klavier (Amsterdam, 1942), compiled from his notes by Ida Schäfer-Dumstorff, sets out his ideas on performance. His compositions show discernment and finesse; particularly in smaller forms he was able to express himself to happy effect in a style that, though related to Chopin, Skryabin and, to some extent, Brahms, has its individuality. He was at his best in writing for the piano, but the two short orchestral pieces show great skill in orchestration.

 

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Quick note on grading:

The Grade (Excellent to Fair, I don't give Mint) refers to the WEAR of the record. Any other defects are stated separately

When I listen to a record, I may also give it an aural grade (again E to F), and make a SUBJECTIVE judgment of the pressing quality for hiss and surface noise.
"SUPERQUIET" is basically noiseless, like a vinyl pressing.
"VERY QUIET" is an exceptionally quiet record for a given pressing.
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