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David Garvey
Born(1922-03-13)March 13, 1922[1]
Reading, Pennsylvania
DiedFebruary 14, 1995(1995-02-14) (aged 72)
New York City
EducationJuilliard School
Occupations
  • Pianist
  • Academic
Organization

David William Garvey (March 13, 1922 – February 14, 1995)[2] was an American pianist and academic. He is known as the regular accompanist of Leontyne Price and other performers, including violinists Itzhak Perlman, Michael Rabin and Wanda Wiłkomirska.

Career

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Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, he studied at the Juilliard School with Beveridge Webster, graduating in 1948.[3] He met Leontyne Price there, and began in 1953 to perform with her regularly on tours abroad and in the White House.[4] In concerts with her, he was announced as pianist, not as accompanist.[5]

He also collaborated with singers William Blankenship,[6] Elizabeth Mannion, Mary O'Hara,[7] Lucia Popp, Hermann Prey,[8] and Jennie Tourel, and with violinists Joseph Fuchs, Itzhak Perlman, Michael Rabin,[3] Charles Treger,[9] and Wanda Wiłkomirska,[10] among others.[3]

Garvey taught at the University of Texas at Austin from 1976. He died in New York City.[3][11]

Recordings

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Leontyne Price in 1953, when they met

Garvey recorded the three Violin Sonatas by Frederick Delius with Wanda Wiłkomirska in 1987. A review in Gramophone noted that their rendition was the best of this music until then, saying: "Both ... have the secret of preserving the music's heartbeat and keeping it moving forward, no matter how slow the tempo might be, and however flexibly they may phrase within a basic pulse."[10]

A recording of the first recital that Leontyne Price gave at Carnegie Hall on 28 February 1965 was issued first in 2002, and reviewed as exceptional.[12] The program included a variety of styles, mostly unfamiliar repertory: arias from operas by Handel, Giordano, Puccini and Cilea, songs by Johannes Brahms, Francis Poulenc, Samuel Barber and Lee Hoiby, spirituals and Gershwin's "Summertime". While a reviewer described the singer's part in detail, he summarily acknowledged that "Miss Price is sensitively accompanied throughout by David Garvey – a true musical partnership, this".[12]

References

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  1. ^ Social Security Death Index: David W Garvey
  2. ^ Pasles, Chris (20 February 1995). "Music Review : Price Carries On Despite Grief at Pianist's Death". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 15 June 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d Oestrich, James R. (18 February 1995). "David Garvey, 72, Accompanist Who Was Almost a Partner, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  4. ^ The Alcalde. Emmis Communications. March–April 1983. p. 9. Retrieved 15 June 2018. Pianist David Garvey ... takes bows with opera star Leontyne Price. A graduate of Juilliard School in New York, professor David Garvey has been piano accompanist for opera star Leontyne Price since 1953.
  5. ^ Oakes, Loisann (9 October 1987). "Soprano, Pianist Touch The Same Chord". The Morning Call. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  6. ^ Texas Monthly. Emmis Communications. March 1979. p. 14. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  7. ^ New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. 29 April 1968. p. 19. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  8. ^ "SFP – 1982–83 Season". San Francisco Performances. 1982. Archived from the original on 15 June 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  9. ^ Organization of American States (1964). Americas (English Ed.). Organization of American States. p. 39. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  10. ^ a b "Delius Violin Sonatas". Gramophone. July 1987. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  11. ^ "Wanda Wilkomirska for children", pigasus-shop.de, retrieved 13 May 2018
  12. ^ a b Quinn, John (November 2002). "Leontyne Price Rediscovered". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
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