Ernest Hutcheson

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Ernest Hutcheson (born July 20, 1871 in Melbourne , † February 9, 1951 ) was an Australian music teacher, pianist and composer.

The gifted son of a blacksmith had his first piano lessons with Max Vogrich and gave his first concerts at the age of five. At the age of fourteen he went to Leipzig and studied at the conservatory with Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn . After graduating in 1890, he continued his training with the Liszt student Bernhard Stavenhagen in Weimar. Here he married the Baroness Irmgard Senfft von Pilsach, with whom he went to London in 1898.

After a stay in Berlin, where he a. a. Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Ferruccio Busoni , he taught at the Peabody Institute from 1900 to 1912 . From 1911 to 1944 he directed the Lake Chautauqua Music School. In 1912 he went on a concert tour through Europe and then lived again in Germany until the outbreak of the First World War. By 1932 he had more than a thousand piano students. In 1933 he succeeded Frank Damrosch as dean of the Institute of Musical Art , a predecessor institution of the Juilliard School , and in 1937 as successor to John Erskine its president.

Hutcheson composed a. a. a symphony, a symphonic poem, a piano concerto, a concerto for two pianos and a violin concerto. In his later years he wrote several books including A Musical Guide to Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung , A Guide to Elektra , Elements of Piano Technique, and The Literature of the Piano .

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SURNAME Hutcheson, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian pianist, music educator and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1951