Eduard Erdmann
Composer
1896 – 1958
Who was Eduard Erdmann?
Eduard Erdmann was a Baltic German pianist and composer.
Erdmann was born in Wenden in the Governorate of Livonia. He was the great-nephew of the philosopher Johann Eduard Erdmann. His first musical studies were in Riga, where his teachers were Bror Möllersten and Jean du Chastain and Harald Creutzburg. From 1914 he studied piano in Berlin with Conrad Ansorge and composition with Heinz Tiessen. In the 1920s and early 1930s his name was frequently cited among Germany's leading composers. Moreover, Erdmann had an international reputation as an outstanding concert pianist whose repertoire encompassed Beethoven and the advocacy of contemporary music. In 1925, he gave the premiere of Artur Schnabel's Piano Sonata, at the Venice ISCM Festival.
From 1925 he was professor of piano at the Cologne Academy of Music but was forced to resign from his post by the Nazis in 1935 and became an 'inner exile', composing almost nothing until after the end of World War II. He joined the Nazi Party in 1937; while not in sympathy with National Socialism, his decision was to avoid government harassment so that he could continue to work, like several other German musicians at the time.
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- Born
- Mar 5, 1896
Livonia - Also known as
- Эрдман, Эдуард
- Nationality
- Germany
- Lived in
- Livonia
- Died
- Jun 21, 1958
Hamburg
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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