Gottfried Galston

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Gottfried Galston on a photograph by Nicola Perscheid .

Gottfried Galston (born August 31, 1879 in Vienna , † April 2, 1950 in St. Louis , Missouri, USA ) was an Austrian pianist, composer, music teacher and music writer of Jewish origin.

Life

Galston studied from 1892 to 1898 at the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna . From 1899 to 1900 he studied composition with Salomon Jadassohn in Leipzig, after which he studied piano with Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna for another four years . From 1900 he made very successful tours through Australia and America. From 1903 he lived in Berlin, where he was a teacher at the Stern Conservatory until 1905 . From 1910 to 1918 he was married to the Russian pianist Sandra Droucker . Galston was a friend and at times also the assistant of Ferruccio Busoni . From 1910 to 1921 he lived in Planegg near Munich. He went on numerous international tours. He performed in The Hague in 1909, in Paris in 1911, in Odessa in 1912 and again in Paris, as well as in New York. In 1921 he moved to Berlin. In 1927 he was appointed professor of piano at the St. Louis Institute of Music .

Works

  • Study book: Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms [based on] a cycle of 5 piano evenings, 1907/1908 in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and Vienna . Berlin: Cassirer, 1910.
  • Study book 1. JS Bach . Munich: O. Halbreiter, Musikverl., 2nd edition 1921.
  • Study book 2. L. v. Beethoven . Munich: O. Halbreiter, Musikverl., 2nd edition 1921.
  • Study book 3. Fr. Chopin . Munich: O. Halbreiter, Musikverl., 2nd edition 1921.
  • Study book 4. Franz Liszt . Munich: O. Halbreiter, Musikverl., 2nd edition 1921.

literature

  • Wilhelm Spemann: Spemann's golden book of music . Berlin and Stuttgart: W. Spemann, 1916. p. 664.
  • The Progressive series teachers college Announces did the master pianist Gottfried Galston of Berlin, Germany, has been added to its faculty ... . St. Louis, Mo., 1927.
  • Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt : Galston's forty Munich concerts . Schweizerische Musikzeitung, 109 (1969), pp. 1-4.
  • Pauline Shaw Bayne: The Gottfried Galston Music Collection and the Galston-Busoni Archive . Knoxville: University of Tennessee Library, 1978.
  • Martina Weindel (ed.): Correspondence with Gottfried Galston / Ferruccio Busoni . With a note and a preface ed. by Martina Weindel. Musicology paperbacks; 128. Wilhelmshaven: Noetzel, 1999. ISBN 3-7959-0754-3 .
  • Martina Weindel (ed.): Calendar notes about Ferruccio Busoni. Gottfried Galston . With a note and a preface ed. by Martina Weindel. Musicology paperbacks; 144. Wilhelmshaven: Noetzel, 2000. ISBN 3-7959-0792-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gdal Saleški: Famous Musicians of a Wandering Race: Biographical Sketches of Outstanding Figures of Jewish origin in the Musical World . New York: Bloch, 1927

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personal data
SURNAME Galston, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galizenstein, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1950
Place of death St. Louis