Neuhaus scriabin biography
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Heinrich (Gustavovich) Neuhaus ((Russian: Генрих Густавович Нейгауз, Henrikh Gustavovič Nejhaus) was an outstanding pianist and pedagogue, a creator of a piano 'school' which is a great achievement in a development of the art of piano playing. His life-long teaching attitude was strongly influenced by the first impressions of his childhood. His father Gustav, of German origin, and his mother Olga, of Polish origin, were a music teachers. They opened the first music school in their town, and were teaching literally all day long. According to Heinrich Neuhaus, his father was very musical but with limited pianistic skills. In his teaching Gustav emphasized the so-called technical or physical side of piano playing beyond all reasonable limits. For years, everyday, for many hours, Heinrich heard his parents teaching in this way, completely base
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The legendary pianist and pedagogue Heinrich Neuhaus (1888-1964) stood at the centre of a dynasty of Russian pianism that still continues to reverberate today. Known as “Heinrich the Great,” his name alone transcended musical circles as he became a national cultural icon and household name.
Heinrich Neuhaus
He was one of the most charismatic and sought-after pianist-pedagogues of the twentieth century, and his name “is inseparable from the successes of the Soviet Piano School.” It has been said that as “a huvud pillar of the Moscow Conservatoire piano department, he directly or indirectly shaped and polished all the major Russian stars of the last half-century,” with his students passing on his legacy to subsequent generations.
We thought it might be fun to look at some of the most brilliant pianists that passed through the hands of Heinrich Neuhaus and to explore his fundamental approach to playing the piano and to interpretation.
Heinrich Neuhaus Plays Chopin’s Nocturne 
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Historical interpretations of Friderick Chopin works
Henryk Neuhaus - biography
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Henryk Neuhaus, a Polish-Russian pianist, was born on 12 April 1888 in Elisavetgrad, (now Kirovograd), and died on 10 October 1964 in Moscow. His father, Gustaw, was a pianist of German origin, his mother, related to Karol Szymanowski, was Polish. He began music lessons with his father, and continued them with his uncle Feliks Blumenfeld. At the age of nine he made his first public appearance, and in 1904 he debuted at the festival in Dortmund, which was followed by concerts in Bonn, Cologne and Berlin. In 1906, in Berlin, he studied composition under Paul Juon, and piano playing under Leopold Godowsky. He worked under Godowsky again between 1912 and 1914 at master classes in Vienna. Some of his biographers mention that he was a pupil of Aleksander Michałowski in Warsaw, whereas Michalowski's pupil was his older sister, Natalia. In 1915, he graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory as
Historical interpretations of Friderick Chopin works
Henryk Neuhaus - biography
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Henryk Neuhaus, a Polish-Russian pianist, was born on 12 April 1888 in Elisavetgrad, (now Kirovograd), and died on 10 October 1964 in Moscow. His father, Gustaw, was a pianist of German origin, his mother, related to Karol Szymanowski, was Polish. He began music lessons with his father, and continued them with his uncle Feliks Blumenfeld. At the age of nine he made his first public appearance, and in 1904 he debuted at the festival in Dortmund, which was followed by concerts in Bonn, Cologne and Berlin. In 1906, in Berlin, he studied composition under Paul Juon, and piano playing under Leopold Godowsky. He worked under Godowsky again between 1912 and 1914 at master classes in Vienna. Some of his biographers mention that he was a pupil of Aleksander Michałowski in Warsaw, whereas Michalowski's pupil was his older sister, Natalia. In 1915, he graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory as