Word: frugoni
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mendelssohn: Two-piano Concerto in E Major (Orazio Frugoni & Eduard Mrazek, pianists; Vienna Pro Musica Symphony conducted by Hans Swarowsky; Vox). A bright, attractive score written by Mendelssohn when he was only 15, and unperformed for more than a century. Pianist Frugoni, who tilted with a stubborn Soviet-zone librarian in Germany to bring the long-forgotten music to light (TIME, July 16, 1951), plays his part with high spirits...
...Frugoni hopes to play it with the Dallas Symphony next fall...
...finder, Pianist Orazio Frugoni, now teaching at Baylor University, got his first firm clue in 1949, from an unpublished Mendelssohn letter in a private collection. He traced the manuscripts of the two concertos to a Berlin family, and thence to the Berlin State Library in the Russian zone...
After a long correspondence, during which Frugoni melted the library with a gift of books, he got microfilm prints of the two works...