Conductor, SIR DAN GODFREY
MAY MUKLE (Violoncello)
From THE PAVILION, BOURNEMOUTH
MAY MUKLE and Orchestra
Violoncello Concerto .............. d'Albert

EUGEN D'ALBERT, whose death occurred only recently, was really an Englishman, though he lived for most of his mature life in Germany and had a French cavalry officer for grandfather. His father, too, was French, though he emigrated as a boy to England, became ballet-master at Covent Garden Theatre, removed to Newcastle and to Glasgow - where Eugen was born - and wrote a quantity of dance music, including the Edinburgh Quadrille.
Eugen studied in London, showed early signs of becoming a brilliant pianist, and as a promising composer gained a Mendelssohn Scholarship for further study abroad. However, either d'Albcrt only took a siugle ticket or lost his return half, for he never came back to England. at least to live, and ended up as Director of the Hochschule in Berlin.
He was considered one of the most, famous pianists of his day. but it is as an opera composei that he is now most regarded. Tieflanel was his most successful opera-so successful that it reached even London and was performed here in one of the Beecham opera seasons. In all, d'Albcrt wrote sixteen operas, many of which achieved extraordinary popularity. , at 4.45