Adelina de Lara (1872–1961)

Adelina de Lara was another piano prodigy who performed in Britain as early as the age of six. She was discovered by Fanny Davies who prepared her to study with Clara Schumann. In 1886, de Lara went to Frankfurt where she studied with Clara Schumann for almost six years. Brahms also occasionally instructed her in the interpretation of his works. After completing her studies, she returned to Britain and began a long, successful career.
 
Clara Schumann herself considered de Lara one of the best of her pupils. De Lara gave concerts in Australia, the USA and South Africa. She made many radio recordings for the BBC and in the 1950s also for the (now no longer existing) Clara Schumann Society and the Adelina Recording Trust. Adelina de Lara was more lively than, for instance, Fanny Davies. Her piano playing was very sonorous; her technique was brilliant and her phrasing differentiated.
 
(J.M.N., translated by Th. H.)
 

On Adelina de Lara cf. also the corresponding page at http://mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/ & https://www.sophie-drinker-institut.de/lara-adelina-de
 
Adelina de Lara: “Clara Schumann and her teaching" – Reminiscences and Examples: m.youtube.com/
 
Adelina de Lara: Schumann Novellette No 8 Op 21, recorded 1952 
m.youtube.com/
 
Adelina de Lara (1872–1961) – Anthology (Audio):  https://archive.org/details/
 
Pearl (GEMM CDS 99049): https://archive.org/details/
 
Love’s Waking. Song by Adelina de Lara on a text by Ethel Clifford, dedicated to Madame Clara Butt, 1907, 5 pages, published by Enoch & Sons, New York. The text of the first line reads: "The first time that my lover said my name, it seemed as if the earth broke into flame“: https://archive.org/details/loveswakingsong00lara
 
See also Stella Oesch: Die Pianistinnen Fanny Davies und Adelina de Lara und ihre Verbindung zur musikalischen Tradition Clara Schumanns“ (Diplomarbeit Universität Wien, 2009) https://core.ac.uk/download/ [PDF]
 
 
Adelina de Lara. Reminiscenses of Clara Schumann
Independently of de Lara's memoirs, published in 1955 „in collaboration with Clare H-Abrahall“ under the title "Finale", London: Burke Publishing Co Ltd., foreword by Dame Myra Hess, available online via https://archive.org/details/, with special attention to chapters „Clara Schumann“ (pp. 31–39), „Frankfurt-on-Main and Serious Study“ (pp. 40–47), „Brahms and the Teaching of Clara Schumann“ (pp 48–60) und de Laras article „Clara Schumann’s Teaching", in: Music and Letters, Volume XXVI, issue 3, July 1945, pp. 143–147,, two sound recordings of Clara Schumann's lessons by the pianist, composer, piano teacher and english Schumann-pupil Adelina are also known, which have been available on YouTube for some time: https://www.youtube.com/ (Clara Schumann and her teaching" - Reminiscences and Examples) and https://www.youtube.com/ („Adelina de Lara speaks of her lessons with Clara Schumann and plays Novellette No 2“).

Recently, Yasuhiro Nakanishi (Tokyo) und Nigel Nettheim (Dr. Nigel Nettheim, The MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University, Sydney) transcribed these two recordings and kindly made the transcriptions available to me for the Schumann Portal.

Adelina de Lara: Reminiscences of Clara Schumann – Transcription of two of her recordings: https://www.schumann-portal.de/
 
(I.B., August 2024)

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