- Eduard Steuermann
Eduard Steuermann (
June 18 ,1892 in Sambir, Poland (now part ofUkraine ) –November 11 ,1964 inNew York City ) was a Polish-born Austrian (and later American) pianist and composer. Steuermann married Clara Silvers, a pianist and noted music librarian, in 1949. [ [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/music/eadxmlmusic/eadpdfmusic/mu004007_x.pdf Edward and Clara Steuermann Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress] ]Steuermann studied piano with
Vilém Kurz inLemberg andFerruccio Busoni inBerlin . He studied composition withEngelbert Humperdinck andArnold Schoenberg , [From abstract of Edward and Clara Steuermann Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress] played the piano part in the first performance of Schoenberg's "Pierrot lunaire ", and premiered his Piano Concerto. He continued his association with Schoenberg as a pianist for the composer'sSociety for Private Musical Performances inVienna , and made a transcription for piano trio of Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht ". In 1952 he was awarded theISCM 'sSchoenberg Medal . He also taught in the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik atDarmstadt .In the
USA , where he emigrated in 1938, [From abstract of Edward and Clara Steuermann Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress] he was famed for his Beethoven recitals of the 1950s and was a distinguished teacher, teaching at theJuilliard School from 1952 to 1964. [From abstract of Edward and Clara Steuermann Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress] In America he was known as Edward Steuermann. Among the prominent performers who studied with Steuermann areAlfred Brendel ,Jakob Gimpel , Avraham Sternklar andRussell Sherman .In 1989, The
University of Nebraska Press published a collection of Steuermann's writings entitled, "The Not Quite Innocent Bystander: Writings of Edward Steuermann". The book was co-edited byClara Steuermann , David H. Porter andGunther Schuller .Footnotes
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