Viola and Piano
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BT.MUSVWP000125
Composed by Edmund
Severn. Arranged by Alan
H. Arnold. Classical.
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(BT.MUSVWP000125).
Born in
Nottingham, England, in
1862, Edmund
Severn moved to the
United States at the age
of four along with his
family who settled in
Hartford, Connecticut.
Severn began to
study the Violin with
guidance fromhis father,
who taught the instrument
professionally. He later
studied with Franz Milcke
and Bernard Listemann,
concertmaster of the
Boston Symphony
Orchestra, before moving
to Berlin to study bowing
technique under Emanuel
Wirth,the first assistant
of Joseph Joachim at the
Berlin Hochschule.
As a composer
Edmund Severn
wrote mainly orchestral
music, as well as many
pieces for the Violin
including a concerto; he
also wrote
threestringquartets.
<
p>To this day, the
Polish
Dance for Violin
and Piano has remained
Severnâ??s most
famous work. The piece is
arranged here by
Alan
Arnold for Viola and
Piano.
