Max von Pauer

Max von Pauer

Max von Pauer (born October 31, 1866 in London , † May 12, 1945 in Jugenheim ) was a German pianist and music teacher.

Life

Pauer was born in London in 1866 as the son of the pianist Ernst Pauer and his wife Ernestine Pauer, b. Andreae, born. He studied piano with his father at the Royal Academy of Music with Eugen d'Albert until 1885 , and since 1885 composition with Vincenz Lachner at the Grand Ducal Conservatory in Karlsruhe. From 1887 to 1897 he taught at the Cologne Conservatory and from 1897 to 1924 at the Royal Conservatory for Music in Stuttgart . In 1908 he succeeded Samuel de Lange as director of the institution and was ennobled by King Wilhelm II of Württemberg for his services . In 1920 he redesigned the conservatory into a modern music college. From 1924 to 1932 he headed the State Conservatory of Music in Leipzig . From 1933 to 1934 he was director of the city ​​music college in Mannheim.

In the spring of 1917, in the middle of the First World War , he undertook a tour of Germany with the violinist Melanie Michaelis , including to Berlin and Freiberg . He was a world-renowned pianist who attached great importance to faithfulness to the work and, like his father, edited numerous works.

Compositions

• Rhapsodie pour piano , Op. 3. Augener & Co, London 1887.
• 7 pieces in waltz and country form , Op. 5.
• Rire de Fantômes , Op. 6th
• Miniatures , Op. 7th 1895
• 5 Piano Pieces , Op. 8, circa 1895
• Allotria , Op. 9
• Waltz , Op. 10, 1895
• Special Studies , Op. 11
• Waltz , Op. 12

Editions

• The consecration of notes. "The Consecration of Sound." Symphony for orchestra by Louis Spohr . Arranged for pianoforte duet by Max Pauer . Augener & Co, London 1890.
• Album Classique pour piano à quatre mains , revu par M. Pauer. Augener & Co, London 1894.
• The British Guards . Quick Step, [arranged for] two pianofortes - 8 hands - by M. Pauer. Augener & Co, London 1894.
• From Wagner's operas : fourteen arrangements for piano for 2 hands by Franz Liszt. New edition by Max Pauer. Litolff, Braunschweig approx. 1900.
• Robert Schumann: piano works. New edition by Max Pauer, 6 volumes, Edition Schott (Volume III: Edition Schott No. 53, published in 1921, the other volumes have not yet been identified).
• Sonatas for piano for two hands (Beethoven), 3 volumes, Leipzig, Peters 1927, Edition Peters 1801a-c.
• Piano works. Pianoforte works (Franz Schubert) edited by Max Pauer. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1928.
• From the workshop of a pianist: finger technical studies . Litolff, Braunschweig 1937.
• Sonatas for piano for two hands (Ludwig van Beethoven) edited by Max Pauer; based on the sources, revised by Carl Adolf Martienssen. Peters, London 1979.

Fonts

• Our strange self. An artist's life review . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1942.
• Beauty analysis of Beethoven's sonatas . Manuscript, 1944

Documents

Letters from Max von Pauer from 1906 to 1941 are in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher CFPeters in the Leipzig State Archives .

Audio documents

• In 1928 Pauer recorded Franz Schubert's trout quintet with members of the Gewandhaus Quartet ( Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft )

Eminent students

• John Petrie Dunn (1878-1931)
• Hans von Besele (1880–1963), professor at the Württemberg University of Music
• Elsa Berner (1918–1989), Argentine pianist
• Branka Musulin (1917–1975), Croatian pianist and professor in Frankfurt

Individual evidence

1. ^ The music in past and present , 1st ed. 1948, vol. 10, p. 954 f.

literature

• Alain Pâris: Lexicon of Classical Music Performers in the 20th Century. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag et al., Munich et al. 1992, ISBN 3-423-03291-X , p. 543, ( dtv. 3291 dtv-Bärenreiter ).
• Moritz von Bredow: Spirit made sound . Branka Musulin on her 100th birthday. A homage. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung v. August 14, 2017, p. 10.

Web links

• Works by and about Max von Pauer in the catalog of the German National Library