Dirk Schäfer (composer, 1873)

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Jan Toorop : Dirk Schäfer (pastel, 1905)
Portrait in Onze Musici (1911)

Dirk Schäfer (also Dietrich, born November 25, 1873 in Rotterdam ; died February 16, 1931 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch pianist and composer.

Life

Dirk Schäfer studied at the Cologne Conservatory with Max von Pauer (piano), Gustav Jensen (theory) and Franz Wüllner (composition and conducting). In 1894 he received a grant from the German Mendelssohn Prize .

He lived in The Hague , from where he made concert tours to Paris, Vienna, London and Berlin. In 1899 he performed his piano concerto with Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouworkest . Schäfer later destroyed it. In 1905 Mengelberg performed Schäfer's Capriccio op een gamelang-melodie (Rhapsodie javanaise) and a Suite Pastorale . Between 1913 and 1915 he gave eleven piano concertos with works from older and contemporary piano literature, from William Byrd to Arnold Schönberg , and thus proved his ability to the concert audience. He performed works by Chopin , which he also recorded on vinyl.

He composed two violin sonatas for Carl Flesch and a cello sonata for Gérard Hekking . His wife Ida Dumstorff put together a piano school from his estate . The composer Franz Weisz was friends with him and wrote a short biography.

Works

  • Dirk Schäfer, Ida Schäfer-Dumstorff: Het piano . Amsterdam: Wereldbibliotheek, 1942
Compositions
  • 19 works with opus numbers
  • Works without opus numbers

literature

  • Franz Weisz, Guido Adler: Ter Herinnering aan Dirk Schäfer 25 Nov. 1873 - 16 Febr. 1931 . Amsterdam: Wereldbibliotheek, 1932

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scholarships from the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation (1879-1934) , at fmb
personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1931
Place of death Amsterdam