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Victor Herbert
Serenade for Piano Trio, from Op.3
Victor Herbert (1859-1924) was born on the English Isle of Guersey of an English mother. Nothing other than the name of his father, August Herbert, is known. He may have been Irish, but most likely was German. Herbert grew up in the German city of Stuttgart and studied cello and composition at the Stuttgart Conservatory. Initially, he pursued a career as a solo cellist, holding orchestral positions in Vienna and Stuttgart before moving to the United States to become solo cellist at the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York. While he continued to work has a solo cellist giving concerts for most of his life, in the States he concentrated on composing and conducting. For a decade and a half up until the First World War, he was perhaps the most famous composer of operetta in the U.S. with such works as Babes in Toyland,
The Serenade arranged here for piano trio, by the well-known composer Vincent Oddo, was originally from his five movement Suite for Cello and Orchestra composed in 1884 while Herbert was still living in Germany. While each of the five movements were very well done, it was the fourth, entitled Serenade which achieved great popularity and was arranged for several different instrumental combinations. Marked Andante grazioso, it is exactly that, graceful and elegant and a testament to Herbert’s gift for melody.
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