Salomon Jadassohn - Piano Concerto 1 in C minor, Op.89 (1887)

Salomon Jadassohn

(13 August 1831 – 1 February 1902) German pianist, composer

and a renowned teacher of piano and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory.

Piano Concerto 1 in C minor, Op.89 (1887)

Believed to be the premiere public performance since the composer's death (b. 1831 - d. 1902). Performed by The Karelia State Philharmonic Orchestra (Musical Director: Marius Stravinsky) on 20th December 2008 at The Philharmonic Hall, Petrozavodsk, capital of Karelia State, Russia. Soloist: Valentina Seferinova http://www.valentinaseferinova.com

Salomon Jadassohn? (1831-1902)
German/Silesian born (Breslau) Jewish Romantic era composer.
His significance?
He was a student of Hauptmann, Ernst Richter and Julius Rietz, as well as Ignaz Moscheles. He also studied privately with Franz Liszt in Weimar.

In his own turn he was a teacher of Edvard Grieg, Ferruccio Busoni, Frederick Delius, Richard Franck, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Ruben Liljefors, Emil Reznicek and Felix Weingartner amongst others.
Thus he's an important musical development link between the generations.
What happened to his works?

He possibly lived in the shadow of contemporary Carl Reinecke, and somehow history has overlooked/forgotten his contributions. There's also much debate about who was the worst despot of the 20th Century. Hitler, Stalin, Mao tse Tung, Pol Pot? Certainly Jadassohn, and his works, suffered a double whammy of suppression by two of them for reasons of ancestry and birth.
His works (140 in virtually every genre) are now being rediscovered, re-evaluated, and enjoying somewhat of a renaissance.