Robert Teichmüller (4 May 1863, in
Braunschweig
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– 6 May 1939, in
Leipzig
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) was a German concert
pianist
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and
music educator
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.
He studied piano and music theory with
Carl Reinecke
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Reinecke was born in what is today the Hamburg district of Altona; technically he was born a Dane, as u ...
at the
Leipzig Conservatory
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where he later became a faculty member in 1897, promoted to professor in 1908. He became one of the most influential piano teachers of his time. His students included notable pianists
Günther Ramin,
Sigfrid Karg-Elert,
Siegfried Rapp,
Harry Dean,
Kurt Hessenberg
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Kurt Hessenberg was born on 17 August 1908 in Frankfurt, as the fourth and last child o ...
,
Eileen Joyce
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,
Rudolf Wagner-Régeny,
Didia Saint Georges Maria Alexandra Saint Georges (24 September 1888 – 1979) was a Romanian composer, accompanist and pianist who was known as Didia Saint Georges. She won the Enescu Prize competition twice and knew George Enescu well.
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Saint Georges was born ...
,
Herbert Albert
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Albert was born in Bad Lausick and died in Bad Reichenhall. After studying with Karl Muck as a pianist he later held a succession of music director positions in ...
,
Rudolf Mauersberger,
Elinor Kaland (maiden name Loose),
Leonard Shepherd Munn
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and
Ernst Oster, who became a music theory teacher. He also edited piano music of Mozart and Max Reger. In 1927 he wrote an ongoing survey of "International Modern Piano Music" with Kurt Hermann.
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References
Literature
In German
* Baresel, Alfred: ''Robert Teichmüller und die Leipziger Klaviertradition''. Peters, Leipzig 1934.
* Baresel, Alfred (ed.): ''Robert Teichmüller als Mensch und Künstler''. Leipzig 1922.
* Jarck, Horst-Rüdiger & Scheel, Günter (eds.): ''Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19. und 20. Jahrhundert''. Hannover 1996, S. 606
In English
* VanWart, Helen: ''Letters from Helen.'' Sybertooth. Sackville, New Brunswick 2010.
etters from a student of Teichmüller, from 1913 to 1914.
External links
Photo of Teichmüller
Full text (English) of International Piano Music, 1927
1863 births
1939 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
19th-century German pianists
German piano educators
20th-century German pianists
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