Walter Georgii (pianist)
Walter Georgii (born November 23, 1887 in Stuttgart , † February 23, 1967 in Tübingen ) was a German pianist and piano teacher.
Walter Georgii was a student of Max Pauer at the Stuttgart Conservatory and received his doctorate in Halle / Saale in 1914 with a dissertation on Carl Maria von Weber as a piano composer in musicology . He then taught piano in Cologne , until 1930 at the Conservatory and the Rheinische Musikschule and from 1930–1938 at the University of Music . From 1946 to 1955 he was a professor at the Musikhochschule in Munich . He published numerous works on piano music and edited numerous music editions.
Publications
- Walter Georgii: piano music, history of piano music for two and four hands from the beginning to the present . Atlantis Musikbuch-Verlag, Zurich / Freiburg 1976 (5th edition), ISBN 3-7611-0222-4
- Walter Georgii: Piano Player Booklet. Wave to the piano player . Atlantis Verlag, Zurich / Freiburg 1957 / New edition: Schott, Mainz 2003 (8th edition), ISBN 3-254-08230-3
- 400 years of European piano music , by Walter Georgii. Cologne: Arno Volk and Heemstede: De Toorts o. J. (= Das Musikwerk . An example collection on music history edited by Karl Gustav Fellerer )
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Georgii in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Georgii, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1967 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |