Phillip Sear plays a 1904 march by the English composer 'Stepán Esipoff'.
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Stepán Esipoff (and Anton Strelezki) are pseudonyms of Arthur Bransby Burnand. Burnand was born in Edmonton, London in 1858 (one of ten children of Bransby Burnand, a well-off Lloyds underwriter, amateur violinist, and cousin of the sometime Punch editor, Francis Burnand-a sister was alive until 1965), and died in Lambeth in 1907. However, there appears to be some confusion over this, as, per Alan Walker's biography of Liszt, Strelezki was apparently his pupil in 1869 (when he would have been only 11), and Walker gives his real name as Theophilus Burnand. Indeed, a book of 'Personal Reminiscences of Chats with Liszt' (1893) was published under the Strelezki name. Arthur did have an uncle called John Theophilus Burnand, but he was a City clerk. Clara Schumann also had a London friend called Theophilus Burnand with whom she dined in the 1880s, and who died in 1891. I have also read that 'Strelezki' studied with her at the Leipzig Conservatory (his studies in Leipzig were also mentioned in an Australian obituary notice, as were his pseudonyms). Interestingly, Burnand (if it were he) was living in Detroit in 1883 gave recitals in Clarksville (1884-described as being 'Russian'), Memphis, Alabama (also 1884 - where he had an organist appointment), Philadelphia (1887), Milwaukee (1888); and in Croydon and Hastings (a Chopin-only programme) all under the Strelezki name in 1890 and 1891. In a report of his Hastings concert, he is described as court pianist to the Queen of Roumania - which would have been Queen Elizabeth, aka the writer Carmen Sylva. This position was also held by Moritz Rosenthal at one time!
There is a fascinating description of the man in 1889 here: tinyurl.com/yy... - but is this really a description of a 30-year-old? Finally, he seems to have appeared more than once at the Old Bailey in London ( tinyurl.com/yx... (December 1893) ) which may account for the lack of live concert reports after the early 1890s. However, in September 1895, Strelezki is reported as sailing from Sydney, Australia to South Africa with a baritone. All very strange!
I'm not sure if this piece is part of a collection - I played from an early 20th century collection of 'high school marches'!
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