Hugo Schwanzer ( German: Hugo Schwantzer ; April 21, 1829 , Oberglogau, now Glogowek , Poland - September 15, 1886 , Berlin ) is a German organist and music teacher of Jewish descent.
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Biography
Cantor's son. He graduated from school in Naiss , in the vicinity of this city began to work as an organist. Then he studied at the Royal Institute of Church Music in Charlottenburg and at the Berlin Academy of Music with Karl Friedrich Rungenhagen and Eduard Grell . In 1854-1866 He was an organist of the Berlin community of reformist Judaism, in 1866, with the completion of the construction of the New Synagogue, he was appointed organist, which caused some scandal, since Schwanzer was a Christian by his religious affiliation [1] .
In 1859-1869 He taught the organ at the Stern Conservatory , after which he headed the piano school of the recently deceased Eduard Ganz , transforming it into the Schwanzer Conservatory. This conservatory continued to exist after the death of Schwanzer, at the very beginning of the 20th century it was headed by Otto Juchenreuter .
Most of Schwanzer’s works are piano plays and songs, but one of his two organ opuses, the Prelude to the Consecration of the New Synagogue in Berlin, Op. 19 (1866).
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- ↑ Saskia Coenen Snyder. Building a Public Judaism: Synagogues and Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe. - Harvard University Press, 2013 .-- P. 73.