André Watts

André Watts (20 ga Yuni, 1946 - 12 ga Yuli, 2023) ya kasance dan wasan piano na gargajiya na Amurka. A cikin shekaru sittin na aikinsa, Watts ya yi aiki a matsayin soloist tare da kowane babban ƙungiyar mawaƙa ta Amurka da mafi yawan ƙungiyar mawaƙa mafi kyau a duniya, gami da New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, da London Symphony orchestra. Watts ya rubuta nau'o'i daban-daban, yana mai da hankali kan mawaƙa na zamanin Romantic kamar Frédéric Chopin da Franz Liszt, amma kuma sun haɗa da George Gershwin. A cikin 2020, an zabe shi zuwa Ƙungiyar Falsafa ta Amirka . Ya lashe kyautar Grammy don Mafi Kyawun Sabon Mawallafin gargajiya a shekarar 1964. Watts ya kuma kasance a cikin bangaren koyarwa a Makarantar Kiɗa ta Jacobs ta Jami'ar Indiana .

Rayuwa ta farko

An haife shi a Nuremberg, Allied-occupied Jamus, Watts dan mahaifiyar Hungary ne, Maria Alexandra Gusmits, pianist; kuma mahaifin Amurka, Herman Watts, jami'in Sojojin Amurka ne wanda ba shi da kwamiti. André ya yi yarantakarsa a Turai, yana zaune mafi yawa kusa da wuraren soja inda mahaifinsa yake.

Watts ya fara karatun violin lokacin da yake dan shekara hudu. Da shekara shida ya yanke shawarar cewa piano kayan aikinsa ne.[1] Lokacin da André ke da shekaru takwas, aikin soja na Herman ya kawo iyalin zuwa Amurka. Sun zauna a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . [1] Mahaifiyarsa ta fara shi da darussan piano na farko. Kamar yadda yara da yawa ke yi, Watts ba ya son yin aiki.[2] Don ƙarfafawa, mahaifiyarsa za ta ba da labaran babban pianist da mawaƙa Franz Liszt, yana bayyana cewa Liszt ya yi aiki da aminci. Watts ya sami wahayi daga Liszt, yana karɓar salon wasan kwaikwayo.

A lokacin da yake da shekaru goma, Watts ya yi karamin kide-kide na G na Mendelssohn a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na waje na Robin Hood Dell, inda Orchestra na Philadelphia ya ba da wasan kwaikwayo na Frank (daga 1933 zuwa 1975), kuma a goma sha huɗu, Franck's Symphonic Variations, kuma tare da Orchestra na Filadelfia.

Watts ya shiga makarantar Philadelphia Musical Academy (yanzu wani bangare na Jami'ar Arts), inda ya yi karatu tare da Genia Robinor, Doris Bawden, da Clement Petrillo, ya kammala a watan Yunin 1963. Ya shiga gasar farko a shekara tara, tare da wasu yara arba'in, don damar yin wasa tare da Philadelphia Orchestra Children's Concerts. Watts ya lashe gasar ta wasa motsi na farko na Piano Concerto na Joseph Haydn a D.

Ayyuka

A shekara goma sha shida, Watts ya saurara a Carnegie Recital Hall a cikin gasa don yin wasa a cikin jerin shirye-shiryen Young People's Concert na Leonard Bernstein tare da New York Philharmonic . Ayyukan Watts na Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 a cikin E-flat a wani Young People's Concert a ranar 12 ga Janairu, 1963, an yi bidiyon bidiyo kuma an watsa shi a talabijin a CBS a ranar 15 ga Janairu. Kafin kide-kide, Bernstein ya gabatar da Watts ga masu sauraron talabijin na kasa, yana mai cewa ya "kiyaye" lokacin da ya fara jin Watts yana wasa.

A ranar 31 ga watan Janairun 1963, Bernstein ya nemi Watts mai shekaru 16 ya cika Glenn Gould mai rashin lafiya, wanda aka shirya don wasan kwaikwayo na yau da kullun na New York Philharmonic. Watts ya sake buga Liszt E-flat Concerto . A ƙarshen ta, ƙungiyar mawaƙa ta shiga cikin masu sauraro a cikin murna mai ƙarfi. Watts ta farko LP, The Exciting Debut of André Watts, an sake shi ba da daɗewa ba a kan Columbia Masterworks records kuma ya haɗa da Liszt Concerto tare da Bernstein da Philharmonic.