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Earl Wild
American jazz musician
Earl Wild (November 26, 1915 – January 23, 2010) was an American pianist known for his transcriptions of jazz and classical music.
Biography
Royland Earl Wild[1] was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1915. Wild was a musically precocious child and studied under Selmar Janson at the Carnegie Institute of Technology there, and later with Marguerite Long, Egon Petri, and Helene Barere (the wife of Simon Barere), among others.
As a teenager, he started making transcriptions of romantic music and composition.
In 1931, he was invited to play at the White House by President Herbert Hoover.[2] The next five presidents (Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson), also invited him to play for them, and Wild remains the only pianist to have played for six consecutive presidents.[3]
In 1937, Wild was hired as a staff pianist for the NBC Symph