Heinrich Neuhaus

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Heinrich Neuhaus (1962)

Heinrich Gustav Neuhaus ( Russian Генрих Густавович Нейгауз ., Scientific transliteration Genrich Gustavovič Nejgauz ; born March 31 . Jul / 12. April  1888 greg. In Jelisawetgrad ; † 10. October 1964 in Moscow ) was a Russian-Ukrainian pianist and important music teacher German Ancestry.

Life

Heinrich Neuhaus grew up in a family of musicians, his parents were piano teachers. His father Gustav came from a family of manufacturers from the Lower Rhine town of Kalkar ; she owned the piano factory W. Neuhaus Sons . His mother Olga "Marta", b. Blumenfeld, was the older sister of the Austro- Polish composer , conductor and pianist Felix Blumenfeld . His grandmother, Maria Szymanowska, was a relative of Karol Szymanowski .

Neuhaus first took lessons from his father, then from 1903 to 1904 with Aleksander Michałowski in Warsaw . His first notable appearances with Chopin's 2nd piano concerto and Richard Strauss ' burlesque took place in 1904 in Dortmund , Bonn , Cologne and Berlin . After extensive concert tours, from 1905 he was a student of Leopold Godowsky in Berlin at the Royal Academic University of Music , further a student of Paul Juon and Heinrich Barth , also in Berlin, and from 1912 to 1914 he was again a master student with Godowsky at the Vienna Music Academy . In 1915 he returned to Russia, graduated from the Petrograd Conservatory with a diploma as a "freelance artist" and initially taught in Tbilisi . After a professorship at the Conservatory in Kiev , he moved to the Moscow Conservatory in 1922 , where he was director from 1935 to 1937 and remained until his death. The focus of his work here was teaching. His students included famous pianists such as Emil Gilels , Svyatoslaw Richter , Igor Zhukov , Victor Eresko, Vladimir Krainew , Margarita Feodorova , Vera Gornostajewa and Radu Lupu . His assistants included his son Stanislaw Neuhaus , Evgeni Malinin and, since 1955, his pupil Lev Naumow ; after Neuhaus' death, he succeeded him at the Moscow Conservatory.

Heinrich Neuhaus married a total of three times. His first wife, Sinaida Nikolaevna, married the writer Boris Pasternak in 1930 after they separated by mutual agreement . Neuhaus had two children with her: Adrian ("Adik"), whose death in 1945 represented a serious blow to Neuhaus, and their son Stanislaw, a pianist like his father. The daughter Milica emerged from the second marriage with Militsa Sergejewna Sokolowa-Borodkina. The third marriage with the Swiss Sylvia Aichinger remained childless. Further strokes of fate in Neuhaus' life were diphtheria in 1933 and an arrest and subsequent imprisonment in 1941. Neuhaus was suspected of waiting for the Germans to march when the Wehrmacht troops were near Moscow and he remained in the Russian capital .

One of Neuhaus's grandsons is the pianist Stanislaw Bunin , son of Stanislaw Neuhaus.

Web links

Fonts

  • The art of piano playing . Gerig, Bergisch Gladbach 1967, ISBN 3-87252-017-2 (reprint 2003).

literature

  • Barbara Mühlenhoff: The Pianofortefabrik W. Neuhaus Sons. Calcar. 1840-1919. BoD, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-9336-0 .
  • Maria Razumovskaya: Heinrich Neuhaus: A Life Beyond Music . University of Rochester Press, Rochester, New York 2018, ISBN 978-1-58046-932-6 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alistair Wightman. Karol Szymanowski: His Life and Work. Routledge, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-351-56136-5 .
  2. ^ A b Maria Razumovskaya:  Neuhaus, Heinrich Felix Gustavovich. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  3. ↑ a b Neuhaus, Heinrich Gustawowitsch. In: mosconsv.ru. Retrieved June 17, 2020 (Russian).
  4. ^ Neuhaus, Heinrich Gustawowitsch. Archived from the original on October 5, 2013 (Russian).;
  5. ↑ a b c Peter Seidle:  Nejgauz, Genrich Gustavovič. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 12 (Mercadante - Paix). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1122-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
personal data
SURNAME Neuhaus, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neuhaus, Heinrich Gustav (full name); Нейгауз, Генрих Густавович (Russian); Nejgauz, Genrich Gustavovič (ru-Latn)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Jelisavetgrad, today Kropywnyzkyj , Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1964
Place of death Moscow