Ernst Pauer (musician)

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Ernst Pauer

Ernst Pauer (born December 21, 1826 in Vienna , † May 5, 1905 in Jugenheim ) was an Austrian pianist , composer , music teacher and music theorist .

Life

Pauer's musical roots lead to the Streicher family, his mother was born Streicher, he was a grandson of Andreas Streicher . His father was the Lutheran superintendent of Vienna of the same name, Ernst Pauer . From 1839 to 1844 he studied composition with Simon Sechter and piano with Mozart's son Franz Xaver Wolfgang in Vienna . Further studies took place from 1845 with Franz Lachner in Munich.

In 1847, on the recommendation of Lachner, he applied to succeed Heinrich Esser as conductor of the Liedertafel in Mainz and was selected. In Mainz he wrote two operas on behalf of Schott & Sons , Don Riego (1849) and Die rothe Maske (1850). Both operas were performed in Mainz and Mannheim. Pauer also composed choral music, overtures and interludes for the Mainz stage.

In April 1851 he resigned from his office in Mainz and settled in London . From the very beginning, Pauer's piano playing was highly admired in London. There he gave a series of concerts in which he presented the development of the piano from 1600 to modern times. From 1859 to 1864 he taught at the Royal Academy of Music . He was particularly concerned about historical performance practice .

In 1876 he was appointed director of the piano class in the newly opened National Training School for Music . Pauer also taught at Cambridge University .

Pauer's interest in early piano music is also reflected in his many editions of early piano music. He also wrote numerous transcriptions , often with fingering , but most of them appeared in England. He also published some piano schools. In 1896 he retired to Jugenheim near Darmstadt.

His son Max von Pauer (1866–1945) was also a world-famous pianist.

Works (selection)

Compositions

  • Piano music
  • Chamber music
  • Songs
  • 3 operas
  • Piano concerts
  • 1 Symphony in C minor op.50 (1856)

Theoretical works

  • The elements of the beautiful in music . Novello, London 1876
  • The art of pianoforte playing . Novello, Ewer and Co., London 1877
  • Musical forms . Novello and Co., HW Gray Co, London / New York 1878
  • The birthday book of musicians and composers . Edinburgh Forsyth Bros., London 1881
  • A dictionary of pianists and composers for the pianoforte . With an appendix of manufacturers of the instrument. Novello, Ewer & Co.'s Music Primers, etc. No. 46, London 1895
  • The Culture of the Left Hand . A Collection of useful and practical [PF] Exercises and Studies for giving strength, firmness, independence and suppleness to the left hand. Selected, fingered, revised and edited by E. Pauer, etc. Augener, London 1907

Music editions (selection)

  • Old piano music in chronological order, newly edited. and vers. by E. Pauer . Senff, Leipzig undated
  • Old Masters. Collection of valuable piano pieces from the 17th and 18th centuries . Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig undated, 3 volumes
  • R. Schumann's vocal album . Augener, London und D.
  • The piano works of F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy edited by E. Pauer . Augener, London 1865–1873
  • Recollections of Meyerbeer . Six transcriptions for the pianoforte. London 1867
  • Winter Journey. The winter journey . 24 songs with pianoforte accompaniment. Edited by E. Pauer. Closely. & Ger. Chez Jean André, Offenbach / M, 1871
  • The well-tempered piano . 48 preludes and fugues by JS Bach. Augener, London 1874
  • The complete piano works of WA Mozart , edited by E. Pauer. Augener, London 1874
  • The complete Piano Works by F. Schubert , edited by E. Pauer. Augener, London 1874
  • 50 harpsichord lessons (by Domenico Scarlatti ) selected, revised and fingered by E. Pauer. Augener, London 1877
  • Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Complete works for Pianoforte and Orchestra with a compressed score of the Orchestral accompaniments to be used on a second Pianoforte. Arranged and revised by E. Pauer. London, 1879
  • The piano works of Robert Schumann , edited by E. Pauer. 1879 (?)
  • Complete Pianoforte solo works [by Haydn, Joseph] . Edited by E. Pauer. London, 1879
  • The Children's Beethoven . Short pieces for the pianoforte revised by E. Pauer. Augener, London 1879
  • Old English Composers for the Virginals & Harpsichord . A collection of preludes, galliards, pavanes, grounds, chaconnes, suites, overtures, sonatas, etc. etc. etc. selected from the works of William Byrde, Dr. John Bull, Orlando Gibbons, Dr. John Blow, Henry Purcell and Dr. Thomas Augustine Arne. Revised & edited by E. Pauer. With biographical notices by WA Barrett, etc. 1879
  • The complete piano solo works by CM von Weber , edited by E. Pauer. Augener, London 1879
  • Transcriptions for the Pianoforte by F. Liszt . Revised by E. Pauer. 1880
  • Schulhoff album. Favorite Pianoforte Pieces . Edited by E. Pauer. Augener & Co, London 1882–1878
  • Complete Piano Works of L. van Beethoven . Edited by Ernst Pauer. Augener & Co., London 1865–1873
  • 50 Special and Preparatory Studies for the pianoforte intended as an assistance to a thoroughly artistic performance of Beethoven's Sonatas . Augener & Co, London 1895
  • Zemiroth Israel, traditional Hebrew melodies chanted in the synagogue and the home edited, harmonized and arranged for the pianoforte by Ernst Pauer; with an explanatory preface by Francis L. Cohen. Augener, London 1896
  • The complete dances by L. van Beethoven , edited, revised and partly arranged for the pianoforte by E. Pauer. Augener & Co., London ca.1892
  • Old dances. Collection d. most famous German, French u. Italian Gavotten ; for pianoforte selected, partly established u. through by E. Pauer. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1910

Eminent students

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ George Grove : A Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Macmillan, London 1880, Volume 3, pp. 739 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Pauer, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist, composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1905
Place of death Youth home