The primary recordings by a major pianist had been achieved by the 12-year-old Josef Hofmann who made some non-commercial cylinders for Edison in 1888 (now misplaced). Hoofmann went on to develop into one of many finest pianists of all time
A 12 months later, Brahms made a well-known cylinder recording that includes his (simply discernible) Hungarian Dance No. 1 on the piano. Cylinders from Moscow have survived that includes the enjoying of Sergei Taneyev (1891), Anton Arensky (1892/4), the nice Paul Pabst (1895) and Anna Essipova (1898) in addition to 4 of Hofmann’s (1895/6).
On disc, Cécile Chaminade recorded various her works in 1901 for the G(ramophone) &T(ypewriter) label, adopted by Grieg in 1903, however Saint-Saëns was the earliest-born pianist to make an acoustic document (G&T, 1904). Nonetheless, the earliest-born pianist to make a recording of any type was Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) who made piano rolls of his personal works in 1905. The primary piano concerto to be recorded was Grieg’s in 1910 (Wilhelm Backhaus for HMV).
