Richard Burmeister

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Richard Burmeister

Richard Burmeister (born December 7, 1860 in Hamburg , † February 19, 1944 in Berlin ) was a German pianist , composer and music teacher.

First a student of Adolf Mehrkens in Hamburg , he studied from 1881 to 1884 with Franz Liszt in Weimar, Rome and Budapest. In the years 1884 and 1885 he toured Germany, Austria-Hungary, England and France. From 1885 to 1897 he taught as a professor at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore , the Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University . During this time he made numerous tours through the USA, but also to Germany, where he appeared for the first time as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic on February 18, 1893 . From 1897 to 1903 he was director of the Scharwenka Conservatory of Music in New York. In 1903 he was appointed professor of the training classes at the Royal Conservatory in Dresden , where he worked until 1906 and then moved to the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin, where he taught until 1925. From 1925 to 1933 he lived in Meran, then again in Berlin.

Burmeister published numerous arrangements of the works of Liszt , Chopin and JS Bach .

From 1885 to 1899 he was married to the pianist Dory Petersen (1860-1902), also a Liszt student.

His grave is in the Dahlem cemetery .

Works (selection)

  • Concert in D minor for piano and orchestra (1880)
  • The hunt for happiness, symphonic poetry
  • The sisters, dramatic tone poem for alto and orchestra
  • Concert Romance (for violin with orchestra or piano accompaniment) in G major; op. 7 (1899)
  • Dialogue in the twilight. Album sheet for pianoforte. Op. 15th

literature

  • Who Was Who in America With World Notables: Volume IV, 1961-1968. Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1968, p. 139.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Jansa: German sound artists and musicians in words and pictures. Leipzig: Friedrich Jansa, 1911, p. 82.
  2. ↑ Lexicon article Burmeister-Petersen, Dory of the Sophie Drinker Institute ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sophie-drinker-institut.de

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personal data
SURNAME Burmeister, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1944
Place of death Berlin