Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Music Training

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o oro Rudorff , Ernst ( Friedrich Kari ) ( b Berlin , 18 Jan 1840 ; d Berlin , 31 Dec 1916 ) . German pianist , teacher and composer . He received his first musical instruction from Marie Lichtenstein , studied the piano and composition with Woldemar Bargiel ( 1852-7 ) , the violin with Louis Ries ( 1852-4 ) and the piano for a short time with Clara Schumann in 1858. From 1859 he studied philosophy and philology at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig , Moszkowski , Moritz ( 6 Breslau , 23 Aug 1854 ; d Paris , 4 March 1925 ) . German pianist and composer of Polish descent . He studied first at Dresden , then in Berlin with Wüerst and Kullak . He settled in Berlin and taught the piano at Kullak's academy for many years , although he also toured extensively as a pianist . He appeared in London at the Philharmonic concerts in 1886 , and was frequently heard in England later , both as pianist and conductor ; as a composer he had much success with several light works . He retired to Paris in 1897 and was elected a member of the Berlin Academy in 1899 . Moszkowski's most popular works were the two books of piano duets , Spanische Tänze op.12 , also ar ranged for solo piano as the demand for them grew ; these are marked by a superficial picturesqueness which , if not genuinely Spanish , is at least sufficiently exotic . Later he tried to reproduce the music of other countries in the orchestral suite Aus aller Herren Ländern op.23 , but he was still regarded chiefly as an interpreter of Spain . It was perhaps for this reason that he tried his hand at an opera on a Hispanic - Moorish subject , Boabdil , der letzte Maurenkönig , modelled Meyerbeerian grand opera . It was produced in Berlin on 21 April 1892 , but , though given in Prague and New York ( in English ) the following year , it was not widely successful and soon disappeared from the stage . Its ballet music , however , similar in style to the earlier Spanische Tänze , long remained in concert pro grammes . A three - act ballet , Laurin , followed in 1896 . Well written and highly effective , Moszkowski's lighter music had a legitimate place in its time ; the more serious large - scale works , although competently turned out , had little originality or vitality . His brother Alexander ( 1851-1934 ) was a writer on music . WORKS Stage : Boabdil , der letzte Maurenkönig ( opera , 3 , C. Wittkowsky ) , Berlin , 21 April 1892 ; Laurin ( ballet ) , 1896 ; Don Juan und Faust ( incidental music , Grabbe ) on later turning to music . He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory with Moscheles , Plaidy , Reinecke , Hauptmann , Richter and Rietz , then conducted in Hamburg ( 1864 ) and taught and conducted at the Cologne Conservatory ( 1865-9 ) , where he founded a Bach society in 1867. On the invitation of Joachim ( who had noticed Rudorff's musical talents in his youth ) he was made professor at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik from 1869 to 1910 and succeeded Bruch as conductor of the Stern Choral Society from 1880 to 1890. He was invited to conduct a series of orchestral concerts in Lisbon in 1887 and was a member of the editorial committee of Denkmäler Deutscher Tonkunst and of the senate of the Royal Academy of the Arts . The University of Tübingen awarded him an honorary doc torate in 1910 . Rudorff's style as a composer was founded on that of Mendelssohn , Schumann and Weber . His earlier com positions ( e.g. the op.3 songs ) show a lyrical inspiration , but in the later works he became increasingly concerned with abstract construction , often resulting in strange harmonies and complicated rhythmic patterns . His piano works are thus technically difficult , sometimes needlessly so . Among his best works are the Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra op.24 , and the three symphonies opp.31 , 40 and 50. In the Symphony no.2 in G minor op.40 , the melodic lines are rather angular or ascend in odd intervals , and there is much use of cross - rhythms . The String Sextet op.5 , published in 1865 , shows the influence of Schumann ; it is scored for the unusual combination of three violins , one viola and two cellos , after the model of the Sextet op.38 by Ferdinand David ( 1861 ) . Rudorff also edited the score of Weber's Euryanthe ( 1866 ) , and part of the Breitkopf & Härtel collected editions of Mozart and Chopin . WORKS Orch and chamber : 3 syms . , opp.31 , 40 , 50 ; 3 ovs . , Der blonde Ekbert . op.8 , Otto der Schütz , op . 12 , Romantische Ouvertüre , op.45 ; 2 serenades , opp.20 , 21 ; Variations on an Original Theme , op.24 ; Ballade , Introduction , Scherzo and Finale , op . 15 ; Romance , vn , orch , op.41 ; Romance , vc , orch , op.7 ; Sextet , 3 vn , va , 2 vc , op.5 Pf : Fantasia , op . 14 ; Capriccio appassionato , op.49 ; Variazioni capric ciose , op . 54 ; Fantasiestücke , concert studies , romances ; Variations , 2 pf , op . 1 ; works for pf 4 hands Vocal : songs , duets and choral works , incl . Aufzug der Romanze ( Tieck ) , solo vv , chorus , orch , op.18 ; 2 Gesänge , S , female v , orch , op.19 ; Gesang an die Sterne ( Rückert ) , 6vv , orch , op.26 ; Herbstlied , 6vv , orch , op.43 BIBLIOGRAPHY W. Altmann , ed .: Johannes Brahms : Briefwechsel , iii ( Berlin , 1907 , 2/1913 ) ( Deutsche Brahms Gesellschaft edn . ) A. Moser : Joseph Joachim : ein Lebensbild ( Berlin , 2/1910 ) J. Joachim and A. Moser , eds .: Briefe von und an Joseph Joachim , mi ( Berlin , 1913 ; Eng . trans . , 1914 / R1972 ) W. Nagel : Obituary , Neue Musik - Zeitung , xxxviii ( 1917 ) , 124 E. Rudorff : Aus den Tagen der Romantik ( Leipzig , 1938 ) ( with complete list of works ] Johannes Brahms : Erinnerungen und Betrachtungen ' , SMz , xcvü ( 1957 ) , 81 , 139 , 182 N. B. Reich : ' The Rudorff Collection ' , Notes , xxxi ( 1974–5 ) , 247 GAYNOR G. JONES 3 cenzo III TUTTI . 1 3 Poss inly Brandenburg , Martin , Maler u . Graphiker in Berlin , geb. in Posen am 8. 3. 1870 , be suchte die Berliner Kunstakademie und die Ateliers von J. P. Laurens und Benj . Constant in Paris und trat 1895 zum ersten Male im Salon Gurlitt in Berlin vor die Offentlichkeit . Im J. 1897 wurde er Mitglied der XI . , später der Berliner Sezession , in deren Ausst . er regelmäßig mit seinen Märchenwäldern und Phantasiestücken vertreten ist . Nie wird man seine Arbeiten mit anderen verwechseln kön nen , so stark ist die Eigenart dieser oft höchst reizvollen Gebilde einer echten Künstlerphan tasie . Freilich findet sich auch in seiner Na tursymbolik , in seinen Licht- und Farben stimmungen manches Absonderliche , aber es kann sehr leicht sein , daß eine weniger nüch terne und weniger auf das Technische er pichte Kunstströmung wie die gegenwärtige B.s Werke sehr hoch schätzen wird . Haupt arbeiten von ihm sind : Das Herz , Der schwarze Wahn , Parsifal , Die Menschen unter der Wolke , Ein Sommertag , Die Stunden der Nacht und des Morgens . Das geistige Deutschland , Leipz . 1898 ( Selbst hingr . ) . Kstchron . N. F. XVIII , 396 ff . correo Reto Ernest ** Brandenburg