Edward George Dannreuther (4 November 1844,

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– 12 February 1905,

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) was a

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pianist and writer on music, resident from 1863 in England. His father had crossed the Atlantic, moving to

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, and there established a piano manufacturing business. Young Edward, under pressure from his father to enter banking as a career, a prospect he found uncongenial, escaped to

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in 1859. He trained as a musician at the

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, where he was a pupil of

Ignaz Moscheles Isaac Ignaz Moscheles (; 23 May 179410 March 1870) was a Bohemian piano virtuoso and composer. He was based initially in London and later at Leipzig, where he joined his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as professor of piano at the ...

. A youthful champion of Wagner, he founded the London Wagner Society in 1872. In 1863 he had been recruited by

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to play the piano in London at

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concerts. His performances of Chopin and Beethoven were well received; after his marriage in 1871 he decided to settle permanently in England. His two-volume work ''Musical Ornamentation'' was for many years the standard text, and an important influence on the evolving trend of performance practice. Dannreuther became a professor of piano at the

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in 1895, a position he held until his death. An enthusiast for new music, he was an important influence on the composer Hubert Parry, who was his pupil.Dibble, Jeremy
"Parry, Sir (Charles) Hubert Hastings, baronet (1848–1918)"
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,'' Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 18 April 2013 A memorial plaque on his former home at 12

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, London was unveiled on 26 July 2005."Edward Danreuther"
, City of Westminster green plaques His son

Hubert Edward Dannreuther Rear-Admiral Hubert Edward Dannreuther, DSO (12 December 1880 – 12 August 1977) was a British admiral and one of six survivors of the sinking of HMS ''Invincible'' during the battle of Jutland. Early life Hubert Dannreuther was born the so ...

(1880–1977) was a British

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and one of six survivors of the sinking of HMS ''Invincible''. Another son Tristan Dannreuther (1872–1963) also served as an officer in the Royal Navy, and was an Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence after World War I.

Sources

* ''The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music'', Harvard Univ. Press, 1996, , * Carl Dahlhaus,

Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (5 January 1919 – 30 August 1999) was a German musicologist and professor of historical musicology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg. Life Eggebrecht was born in Dresden. His father was a Protestant mini ...

(eds.): Brockhaus '' Riemann Musiklexikon'', first volume. Schott Mainz, Piper München, 3rd edition 1989, ,

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