August Spanuth
August Spanuth born Brinkum near Hanover (March 15, 1857 - January 9, 1920) was a German pianist, writer on music, editor, and composer.[1][2]
Life
August Spanuth studied piano with Carl Heymann and composition with Joachim Raff at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. He made his debut as a pianist in 1874. After touring the United States in 1886, he taught at the Chicago Musical College from 1887 to 1893, and then in New York from 1893 to 1906, where he also worked as a music critic.[3] He returned to Germany in 1906, teaching at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. He had already been a contributor to the Berlin- and Leipzig-based Signale für die musikalische Welt from 1902 and continued to do so, serving as the journal's editor from 1907 to 1919. He published two volumes of piano exercises and with X. Scharwenka the book Methodik des Klavierspiels (1907), and three volumes of Liszt's piano works.
He taught David Saperton, who went on to teach at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
Personal life
He married Amanda Fabris. They had a son, Hans August Spanuth.[4]
References
- ↑ Baker (1971). Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians.
- ↑ Frank, Paul and Altmann, Wilhelm (1936). Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstler-Lexikon (1 ed.). Heinrichshofen’s Verlag. p. 593.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Painter, Karen (2002). The Aesthetics of Mass Culture: Mahler's Eighth Symphony and its Legacy. Princeton University Press.
- ↑ "Hans Spanuth collection". Northwestern University Libraries.
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