Composers

Alfred Jaëll

Piano
Piece
Dance
Paraphrase
Caprice
Polka
Nocturne
Song
Étude
Waltz
Airs
by popularity

#

3 Morceaux de Salon, Op.106

A

Air de Nelusko from Meyerbeer's 'L'Africaine', Op.128Aux bords de l'Arno, Op.124Aux bords d'une source

B

Barcarolle No.4, Op.159Bohemian Polka in E-flat major

C

Caprice on 'J. Lombardi', Op.11Caprice on Themes from 'Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor', Op.137Chant Romantique, Op.130Chœur des Évêques from Meyerbeer's 'L'Africaine', Op.127Comin' thro' the Rye, Op.31

G

Gebet aus 'Lohengrin', Op.47Gebet aus 'Tannhäuser', Op.48

H

Home Sweet Home, Op.24

I

Illustrations on Gounod's 'Romeo et Juliette', Op.136Illustrations on Tristan und Isolde, Op.113Illustrations sur un Motiv de Verdi's 'La Traviata', Op.70Illustrations sur un Motiv de Verdi's 'Rigoletto', Op.18Intermezzo elégiaque, Op.160

L

La Danse des Fées, Op.14La Fée Polka, Op.26La Fille du Régiment Fantaisie, Op.27La SylphideL'absence, Op.87Le carnaval de Venise, Op.22Liebeslied aus 'Die Walküre', Op.149Love Dream Polka, Op.29

M

Melodies from 'Tristan und Isolde', Op.112

N

Nocturne, Op.81

P

Paraphrase on Wagner's 'Lohengrin' and 'Tannhäuser', Op.35Pensée Lyrique, Op.155Prima Donna Waltz, Op.30

R

Regrets en quittant la chère Patrie, Op.81Reminiscences sur 'Norma', Op.20Romance d'Inès from Meyerbeer's 'L'Africaine', Op.126Romanzetta

S

Souvenirs d'Italie, Op.154

T

The Last Rose Of Summer, Op.25

V

Valse de l'opéra 'Faust', Op.129

W

Woodland Whispers, Op.28

É

Étude de concert, Op.134
Wikipedia
Alfred Jaëll (5 March 1832 – 27 February 1882) was an Austrian pianist. His students included Benjamin Johnson Lang and Samuel Sanford (the eponym of the Sanford Medal).
He was born in Trieste, then in the Austrian Empire. He studied under Carl Czerny and began his public career at the age of 11, appearing at the Teatro San Benedetto, Venice, in 1843. The following year he studied with Ignaz Moscheles in Vienna. In 1845 and 1846 he lived in Brussels, then Paris. According to one source, he was a student of Chopin, and according to another, he was a student of Liszt; however, most sources make no mention of these associations.
Jaëll made a tour of the United States, which was so successful that he stayed for three years, from 1851 to 1854. He made his New York City debut on 15 November 1851, to ecstatic reviews. At his second concert on 22 November, he introduced Adelina Patti to the American public. He also gave recitals with Ole Bull. He was generally acknowledged to be the finest pianist ever to have visited North America up to that time. He took some of Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s works into his repertoire and helped to popularise them. He returned to Europe in 1854. He was made court pianist to the King of Hanover in 1855. He performed in London in 1862 and 1866.
In 1866 he married Marie Trautmann, a French pianist, composer and writer of pedagogical works. They toured together, performing their own works as well as the standard repertoire. He was one of Henryk Wieniawski’s accompanists for his famous performances of Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata. He was the soloist in the London premiere of Joachim Raff’s Piano Concerto in 1875.
Alfred Jaëll died suddenly in Paris in 1882, aged only 49, leaving Marie a 35-year-old widow. He left a number of "extremely effective" transcriptions from Wagner, Schumann and Mendelssohn, as well as original compositions, all now forgotten.