Paul Pabst (musician)
Christian Georg Paul Pabst ( Russian Па́вел А́вгустович Пабст / Pawel Augustowitsch Pabst ; born May 27, 1854 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; † June 9, 1897 in Moscow ) was a German-Baltic pianist, composer and music teacher.
Life
He was the son of the composer August Pabst (1811–1885), the director of the Riga Conservatory, and brother of Louis Pabst (1846–1903), the founder of the Melbourne Music Academy . He learned to play the piano under the supervision of his father, then at the Vienna Music Academy with Anton Door . In 1875 he began teaching in Riga. In 1878 he came to Russia and in 1881 became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory .
His students included Konstantin Nikolajewitsch Igumnow , Alexander Borissowitsch Goldenweiser , Alexander Fjodorowitsch Goedicke , Elena Beckmann-Schcherbina , Nikolai Karlowitsch Medtner , Georgi Eduardowitsch Konjus , and Arseni Nikolajewitsch Koreschtschenko .
Pabst also appeared as a pianist, particularly with the works of Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt . He also performed his own works - such as fantasies about operas by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky . Pabst was friends with Tchaikovsky, it is believed that he edited the piano part of Tchaikovsky's 1st piano concerto. Tchaikovsky dedicated the Polacca de Concert from Op. 72 (1893). Rachmaninoff dedicated the seven Morceaux de salon Op. 10 (1894). In addition to works for piano, Pabst composed a piano trio and the piano concerto Op. 82, which he dedicated to Anton Rubinstein . Pabst died at the age of 43 and was buried in the Vvedenskoye cemetery .
literature
- Helmut Scheunchen: Lexicon of German Baltic Music. Harro von Hirschheydt publishing house, Wedemark-Elze 2002. ISBN 3-7777-0730-9 . Pp. 191-192.
- Wilibald Gurlitt , Carl Dahlhaus (editor): Riemann Musik-Lexikon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Pabst, Pawel Awgustowitsch (Christian Georg Paul). 12th completely revised edition. 5. Supplementary volume, personal section L – ZB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1972, p. 317 (first edition: 1882).
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Pabst in the catalog of the German National Library
- biography
- Original recording by Pabst on Edison phonograph
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pabst, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pabst, Christian Georg Paul (full name); Pabst, Pawel Augustowitsch; Пабст, Па́вел А́вгустович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian pianist, composer and music teacher of German descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg i. Pr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1897 |
| Place of death | Moscow |