Edward Maurice Isaacs 1881-1953

[giles.enders]

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

[Wheesht]

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?