Robert Freund ( German: Robert Freund ; April 1, 1852 , Budapest - April 8, 1936 , ibid.) - Hungarian - Swiss pianist and music teacher.
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| Date of Birth | April 1, 1852 |
| Place of Birth | Budapest |
| Date of death | April 8, 1936 (84 years old) |
| Place of death | Budapest |
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| Professions | pianist , music teacher |
| Instruments | piano |
He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory ( 1865 - 1868 ) with Ignaz Mosheles and Theodor Koktius , then in 1869 - 1870 . in Berlin by Karl Tausig [1] and in 1870 - 1872 in Budapest with Liszt Ferenc (Liszt singled him out, played a duet with Freund; Freund owns the Liszt-authorized procession of the orchestra play “Night Procession” from the series “Two Episodes from the Faust“ Lenau ”for piano solo) [2] .
From 1875 to 1912 (with a short break in 1881 - 1882 ). Freund lived and worked in Zurich , becoming in 1876 the first professor of piano at the newly created Zurich Conservatory [3] . Among his students are his younger sister Ethelka Freund [4] , Otmar Shek [5] , Willy Reberg . In the Zurich period, Freund, through the head of the conservatory Friedrich Hegar, became close to Johannes Brahms ; on the 60th anniversary of the composer, he made an Italian tour in the company of Freund, and after the death of Brahms Freund, by testament, received an autograph of the Second Piano Concert [2] .
The memoirs “Memoirs of a Pianist” ( German: Memoiren eines Pianisten ; 1915 ) contains information about Freund’s meetings with Tausig, Liszt, Brahms, Hans von Bülow , Joseph Joachim , Friedrich Nietzsche , Arnold Böcklin and other prominent figures [2] .
Since 1914 he lived in Budapest in the family of his sister Ethelka Freund [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Oron A. Etelka Freund (Piano ) . Bach Cantatas Website (April 2007). The appeal date is April 14, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Evans A. Etelka Freund (1879-1977 ) . Arbiter Records (June 9, 2012). The appeal date is April 14, 2014.
- ↑ Piano Sonatas of Gustav Weber and Hugo Kaun . WordPress.com (December 27, 2009). The appeal date is April 14, 2014.
- ↑ Etelka Freund (Piano ) . Bach Cantatas Website. The appeal date is April 14, 2014.
- ↑ Näf L. Schoeck Othmar: Biographie (inaccessible link) . Musinfo - La Base de Données de la Musique Suisse. Date of treatment April 14, 2014. Archived April 15, 2014.
Links
- Freund, Robert (1852-1936) (German) . Zentralbibliothek Zurich. The appeal date is April 14, 2014.
- Robert Freund on the AllMusic website (retrieved April 14, 2014) .