Willy Bardas

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Willy Bardas (born February 17, 1887 in Vienna , Austria ; † September 29, 1924 in Naples , Italy ) was an Austrian pianist and music teacher.

Live and act

Bardas studied in Berlin with Artur Schnabel and Max Bruch . He worked as a pianist in Berlin and from 1923 as a piano teacher at the State Music Academy in Tokyo. His most famous student was the composer Moroi Saburō .

"In relation to the physiological methods, Bardas points out the importance of the correct psychological attitude towards the technical difficulty."

In an obituary it says: "Bardas was also a refined essayist and brought German music culture to Japan as a teacher."

On the return journey from Japan to Berlin, he was the victim of a car accident in Naples in September 1924 and suffered a fractured skull.

Works

  • “Comments on Busoni's question: What did Beethoven give us?” Die Musik (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt) 1922, pp. 203ff
  • On the psychology of piano technique . From the estate of Willy Bardas edited by Professor Artur Schnabel. Berlin: Werk-Verlag 1927 (reprint: Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-932976-17-7 )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Schubert: The technique of playing the piano from the spirit of the musical work of art . Berlin 1954, p. 103
  2. ^ Siegmund Kaznelson: Jews in the German cultural area . Jüdischer Verlag 1962, p. 181
  3. ^ Vossische Zeitung, September 30, 1924, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Bardas, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1924
Place of death Naples , Italy