Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (November 25, 1862 - February 17, 1901) was an A… Read Full Bio ↴Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (November 25, 1862 - February 17, 1901) was an American pianist and composer.

Nevin was born in 1862, at Vineacre, on the banks of the Ohio, in Edgeworth, Pennsylvania. There he spent the first sixteen years of his life, and received all his schooling, most of it from his father, Robert P. Nevin, editor and proprietor of a Pittsburgh newspaper, and a contributor to many magazines. It is interesting to note that he also composed several campaign songs, among them the popular "Our Nominee," used in the day of James K. Polk's candidacy. The first grand piano ever taken across the Allegheny Mountains was carted over for Nevin's mother. Other members of the Nevin family showed musical inclinations as well; Nevin's younger brother, Arthur, also achieved some renown as a composer, as did his cousins George and Gordon Balch Nevin.

His best-remembered compositions are the piano piece Narcissus from Water Scenes and the songs "The Rosary" and "Mighty Lak' a Rose" (lyrics of the latter by Frank Lebby Stanton).

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El Rosario
Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin Lyrics

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Comments from YouTube:

jean simon

Thank you so much for this beautiful performance...and for sharing the wonders of music.

PSearPianist

My pleasure, Jean!

Gabrielleow11 Oop

3y↑3

im a child yes im 12 and this song is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard in my life I have been thinking about learning how to play the piano

PSearPianist

3y↑3

That's a really nice comment - and how great it would be to be 12 with all your life ahead of you. I hope you are able to learn piano!

LE LE

What a beautiful version of this amazing melody. Thank you for posting this video!

PSearPianist

My pleasure - I'm glad that you enjoyed it!

Nathaniel Jordon

11y↑4

That was beautiful, and may have gotten me to start retaking piano!

Martha Sullivan

7y↑1

Thank you. It was great to hear "someone else" play the song. I am still playing it (at 80) and I learned it in my teens.

PSearPianist

Thanks Martha - great that you are still playing it, and hope that I will be too at 80!

AdrianKateEmOlivia

13y

Hi Philip, great playing. You are one of the better pianists posting on Youtube. Have you come across a piece by Ethelbert Nevin called Canzone Amorosa (Venetian Love Song). It is very lovely. I have it in an old book called 'World Famous Piano Pieces' but I can't find it showing anywhere on Youtube. I offer you a challenge, obtain the sheet music, practice and post to Youtube. If I were a better pianist I would do it myself. Regards Adrian

Rose Mary Pérez y Pérez

Que bello!

PSearPianist

Thank you very much!

Juan Lopez

32w↑1

It's a pleasure to hear you over time, Mr. Sear.

PSearPianist

32w

Thank you for your continued support!

Quisbamsis

Thank you so very much for the grace of your talent. Television is okay, but the Internet rocks! I have a copy of "The Rosary" sheet music. Thank you!

Nathaniel Jordon

11y↑1

I think I will! You really got some amazing talent

michael corleone

12y

Beautiful.

PSearPianist

12y

That's very kind!

rp316117

11y

Thanks for this beautiful rendition of the song that has haunted me ever since I read the book by the same name to my wife.It too is called "the Rosary" and was a big hit in 1911. The song was a big sensation back then.. I don't understand why the authoress who was a protestant made this song the basis of her novel. Was she anglo catholic? Even the characters were non Catholic. And Mr Nevin the composer seems a mystery to me but I notice that on his tombstone is a picture of a rosary .

harryfaber

13y

Lovely, thank you.

PSearPianist

11y

Thanks - I didn't know (in the UK) of the book, or of the rosary on Nevin's tombstone!

The Archive

Beautiful!

PSearPianist

+d Thank you!

PSearPianist

9y↑1

Holly Aylward Thank you for your kind comment, Holly. The internet does indeed rock when it comes to classical music performances. I was watching Anne-Sophie Mutter performing live at Carnegie Hall last night on Medici.tv - that would never have made it to British TV!

Quisbamsis

How incredibly beautiful that you've been blessed with such a gift. Can you imagine how many other people around the world you have touched with your gift! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PSearPianist

Holly Aylward You are very kind, Holly, and it is indeed great to share all this little-played music with anyone who might want to hear it!

PSearPianist

13y↑1

@nicholas4a Thanks for that (it's Phillip, not Peter btw). The piece is freely available for download from the Sibley Library site in a book of Nevin song arrangements.

PSearPianist

13y

@AdrianKateEmOlivia Thank you for that. I have already posted Venetian Love Song here, as part of a recording I did of the complete 'A day in Venice' suite. I can't give the link in this response but you should find it in my channel.

AdrianKateEmOlivia

13y

Ah....I didn't realise it was part of a suite. I did see 'A day in Venice' amongst your recordings...it all makes sense now. thank you for putting me right. Regards Adrian

PSearPianist

13y

@harryfaber Glad you liked it!

pittst67

12y

lovely

PSearPianist

12y

@pittst67 Thank you!

Nullifidian

5y↑1

At last, now I finally know what song it was P. G. Wodehouse was referring to in My Man Jeeves .

"Yes, it was a peaceful sort of life, but by the end of the first week I began to wish that Jimmy Pinkerton had arranged to come down earlier: for as a companion Freddie, poor old chap, wasn't anything to write home to mother about. When he wasn't chewing a pipe and scowling at the carpet, he was sitting at the piano, playing 'The Rosary' with one finger. He couldn't play anything except 'The Rosary,' and he couldn't play much of that. Somewhere round about the third bar a fuse would blow out, and he'd have to start all over again" (from the story "Helping Freddie").

You play it much better than Freddie.

PSearPianist

Thanks so much for giving me that literary reference. To my shame I have never read any Wodehouse, but there was an excellent TV adaptation of the Jeeves/Wooster stories on British television in the 1960s.