Edward Dannreuther, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Edward Dannreuther

German musician

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1844

Place of Birth: Strasbourg, France

Date of Death: 12-Feb-1905

Profession: composer, pianist, university teacher, musicologist

Nationality: United Kingdom, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Edward Dannreuther

  • Edward George Dannreuther (4 November 1844, Strasbourg – 12 February 1905, Hastings) was a German pianist and writer on music, resident from 1863 in England.
  • His father had crossed the Atlantic, moving to Cincinnati, and there established a piano manufacturing business.
  • Young Edward, under pressure from his father to enter banking as a career, a prospect he found uncongenial, escaped to Leipzig in 1859. He trained as a musician at the Leipzig Conservatoire, where he was a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles.
  • A youthful champion of Wagner, he founded the London Wagner Society in 1872.
  • In 1863 he had been recruited by Henry Chorley to play the piano in London at the Crystal Palace concerts.
  • His performances of Chopin and Beethoven were well received; after his marriage in 1871 he decided to settle permanently in England. His two-volume work Musical Ornamentation was for many years the standard text, and an important influence on the evolving trend of performance practice. Dannreuther became a professor of piano at the Royal College of Music in 1895, a position he held until his death.
  • An enthusiast for new music, he was an important influence on the composer Hubert Parry, who was his pupil.
  • A memorial plaque on his former home at 12 Orme Square, Westminster, London was unveiled on 26 July 2005.His son Hubert Edward Dannreuther (1880–1977) was a British admiral and one of six survivors of the sinking of HMS Invincible.
  • Another son Tristan Dannreuther (1872–1963) also served as an officer in the Royal Navy, and was an Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence after WWI.

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