Edward Maurice Isaacs Born 14.7.1881 Manchester Died 31.7.1953 Manchester
The son of Isaac Asher Isaacs, Secretay to the local synagogue and his wife Annie.
Edward first studied music at The Royal Manchester College and subsequently in Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig. He was principally a piano recitalist. For the last thirty years of his life he was Musical Director of the Manchester Mid-Day Concerts, He was totally blind from 1924 though he continued to perform.
Orchestral
Piano Concerto 1907 The music for this is lost. Only an off air recording from a November 1952 broadcast exists.
Chamber
Piano Trio 1909
Violin sonata 1910
Piano
Two caprice – etudes Op.2 1898
Four studies 1900
Six miniatures 1904
Arabesque on a Czerny study 1917
Caprice on a country dance by Gretry 1917
Prelude in E minor on a Hiller chorale 1925
'Moonlight' reverie Op.8/1 Siciliano Op.8/3
Ritornello
Scherzando
Wife:
Amy Florence Jordan 1884-1970
Children:
Leonard Isaacs 1909-1990
Ruth Isaacs 1913-1990 Married to Edward Kirby
Is anything known about the performers on the off air recording of the piano concerto? I find it intriguing (or curious?) that the music should have become lost after it was played so long after its composition.
Might there be any descendants alive today?