Emil von Sauer (composer)

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Emil Sauer by Theodor Mayerhofer ( Wiener Salonblatt , November 29, 1891)
Emil v. Sour at the piano, silhouette by Otto Böhler
Emil von Sauer on November 25, 1905 at the recording session for Welte-Mignon in the Leipzig studio. Karl Bockisch on the left , Hugo Popper on the right
Emil von Sauer on November 12, 1907 at the admission meeting for Hupfeld-DEA in the admission salon of Ludwig Hupfeld AG Leipzig.

Emil von Sauer (born October 8, 1862 in Hamburg , † April 27, 1942 in Vienna ) was a German composer , pianist and music teacher .

Life

His mother gave him piano lessons at an early age . In Saint Petersburg he met Anton Rubinstein , for whom he auditioned. On his recommendation he became a student of Nikolai Rubinstein at the Moscow Conservatory from 1879 . In the years 1884 to 1885 further studies followed with Franz Liszt in Weimar .

From 1901 he worked in Vienna at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde , where he led the piano master class. He carried out this activity with interruptions until his death. In addition, he made extensive concert tours from the 1880s to the mid-1930s, which took him through all of Europe and as far as the United States and helped him to achieve international recognition.

He edited works by Chopin and Liszt, but also Scarlatti , Schumann and Brahms . In 1917 Sauer was ennobled for his successes.

His compositional work includes piano concertos , piano sonatas , concert etudes , piano pieces and songs . He was also the editor of piano pedagogical literature and wrote an autobiography in 1900 . He is considered to be one of the last representatives of the Franz Liszt school.

Von Sauer was the father of the lawyer Emil von Sauer . He was married twice. With his second wife, the concert pianist Angelica Morales (1911–1996), he had two other sons, Julian and Franz. Von-Sauer-Straße in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld is named after him, in Vienna since 1952 Sauergasse .

Honors

Works

Compositions (selection)

  • Piano concerto in E minor
  • Piano concerto in C minor
  • Piano sonata in D major
  • Piano sonata in E flat major
  • Etudes de Concert
  • Suite modern

Fonts

  • "My world. Pictures from the secret compartment of my art and my life "(autobiography, Stuttgart 1901)

This publication was reissued in 2014 in the series "Publications of Historical Documents" by Jens-Hagen Wegner and provided with a foreword and an afterword.

Documents

Letters from Emil von Sauer are in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher CF Peters in the Leipzig State Archives .

Discography

Recordings by Sauer himself from the years 1923–1941 appeared in 1998 as a 3-CD edition:

  • Emil von Sauer - The complete commercial recordings . 3 CDs. Marston, 1998. EAN 638335300221

At the end of 2012, around seven CDs of his works were available, including

  • Piano Concerto No. 1 ( Hyperion Records )
  • Piano works recorded by Oleg Marshev:
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 + 5 Morceaux de difficulte moyenne; Petite Scene de Ballet; Menuet; Polka de concert; Galop de concert. (Aarhus SO, Loughran). Danacord 2002
    • Piano Sonata 1
    • Piano Sonata 2
    • Études des Concert Vol. 1
    • Études des Concert Vol. 2
    • Suite modern

literature

Web links

Commons : Emil von Sauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography (English)
  2. ↑ a b Awards for Professor Emil Sauer. In:  Salzburger Volksblatt , October 11, 1937, p. 6 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / svb.
  3. ↑ audio samples
  4. ↑ audio samples
personal data
SURNAME Sour, Emil von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sauer, Emil; Sauer, Emil George Conrad von; Sauer Ritter von Aichried, Emil Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1942
Place of death Vienna