Ernst Jedliczka (24 May 1855 – 3 August 1904) was a Russian-German pianist, piano pedagogue, and music critic. The ''

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'' stated that Jedliczka "did much to spread Russian music in Germany, placing Russian composers in a prominent place within his concerts and devoting them to a series of articles."

Biography

Born in Poltava, Jedliczka was the son of Ukrainian composer Alois Jedliczka. In 1876 he earned diplomas in mathematics and physics from Saint Petersburg State University. He then pursued studies at the

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(MC) where he was a piano student of

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and Charles Klindworth. After graduating from the MC in 1879, he taught on the piano faculty of the MC from 1880-1887. He then taught at the

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in Berlin from 1888–1897 and at the

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from 1897 until his death in 1904. His notable pupils included

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, John J. McClellan,

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, Olga Samaroff, and

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. Jedlickza was a member of a notable trio in Berlin whose other members included violinist

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and cellist Hugo Dechert. The trio notably presented the world premieres and Berlin premieres of several works by

Hans Pfitzner Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera ''Palestrina'' (1917), loosely based on the life of the ...

. He also wrote music criticism for the German newspaper '' Allgemeine deutsche Musikzeitung'' for many years. He died in Berlin at the age of 49.

Wife

In 1881 Jedliczka married Maria Wiedring (born 17 May 1865), member of a Moscow German family. She studied piano at Moscow Conservatory (1877-1882).Московская государственая консерватория имени П. И. Чайковского. История — студенты
/ref> After Ernst's death she remained one of Pfitzner's close friends. She is the dedicatee of

Mily Balakirev Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (russian: Милий Алексеевич Балакирев,BGN/PCGN transliteration of Russian: Miliy Alekseyevich Balakirev; ALA-LC system: ''Miliĭ Alekseevich Balakirev''; ISO 9 system: ''Milij Alekseevič Balakir ...

's ''Dumka'' for piano (1900).

References

Sources

*Donna Staley Kline. ''An American Virtuoso on the World Stage: Olga Samaroff Stokowski'', Texas A & M Univ Press, 1997, pg 28-29 {{DEFAULTSORT:Jedliczka, Ernst 1855 births 1904 deaths German music critics German pianists Moscow Conservatory alumni Academic staff of Moscow Conservatory Russian pianists Saint Petersburg State University alumni Musicians from Poltava German male non-fiction writers 19th-century pianists 19th-century German musicians