Stanislaw Eksner

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Stanislaw Eksner

Stanislaw Kasparowitsch Eksner ( Станислав Каспарович Экснер * 7 . Jul / 19th May  1859 greg. In Radoszyce ; † 28. November 1934 in Warsaw ) was a Russian pianist and music teacher.

Eksner studied at the Conservatory of Music in Leipzig and at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory . In 1883 he came to Saratov as director of the department of the Imperial Russian Music Society and took over the management of the conservatory the following year. He took care of its expansion and achieved that it was given its own building in 1895, the completion and maintenance of which he took up until his resignation for health reasons in 1914. He also appeared as a pianist and performed compositions by Beethoven , Mozart and Mussorgsky as a conductor . On the occasion of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of Saratov, he performed his own cantata for solo, choir and orchestra.

After 1914, Eksner continued to work for the Imperial Russian Music Society in Saratow, but apparently did not take over the management of the Conservatory again in 1918. He lived in Saratov until 1921. Eksner died in Warsaw on November 28, 1934.

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  1. Ś.p. Stanisław Eksner †. Kurjer Warszawski R.114, no 330 (November 30, 1934), p. 10