- Edmund Neupert
(Carl Fredrik) Edmund Neupert (
1842 -22 June 1888 ) was a Norwegianpianist andcomposer .He was a teacher at the
Sternsches Konservatorium inBerlin from1866 -1868 . He then moved toCopenhagen , where he held a position at the town's conservatory for two years. In1881 he travelled toMoscow , and in1882 he moved to Christiania (todayOslo ), where he taughed at a piano school for children. In1883 he stayed inNew York . Neupert was regarded as an outstanding pianist and piano pedagogue, often compared toFranz Liszt .He was now best remembered as the soloist on
April 3 ,1869 at the world premiere ofEdvard Grieg 's Piano Concerto in A Minor, with the Royal Danish Orchestra conducted byHolger Simon Paulli , in the Casino Concert Hall inCopenhagen . The piano used for the performance was lent for the occasion byAnton Rubinstein , who attended the concert. Grieg himself was not present due to commitments back home in Norway. [http://eng.grieg07.no/?page=66&news=183&history=archive&PHPSESSID=4997fb240397c9a2baf05646163dd170] Neupert was also the dedicatee of the second edition of the concerto (Rikard Nordraak was the original dedicatee), and was said to have actually composed the cadenza in the first movement. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Qp2neJsQIXAC&pg=RA1-PA70&lpg=RA1-PA70&dq=edmund+neupert&source=web&ots=2oSwq1j08Y&sig=2gb5zRDUa44Ca9afD53w_kT0ciI#PRA1-PA70,M1]Among Neupert's compositions, especially the '24 Concert-Etüden' and the '24 Octav-Etüden' are highly regarded.
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