Alfred Heinrich Ehrlich (5 October 1822, in

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– 30 December 1899, in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

) was a pianist, composer and writer on music. As a composer, he came forward with a ''Piano Concerto'' and ''Piano Variations on an Original Theme,'' being one of the first composers to collect Romanian folk melodies.

Life

Ehrlich finished his high school of music under the leadership of

Adolf Henselt Georg Martin Adolf von Henselt (9 or 12 May 181410 October 1889) was a German composer and virtuoso pianist. Life Henselt was born at Schwabach, in Bavaria. At the age of three he began to learn the violin, and at five the piano under Josephe v ...

, Karl Maria von Bocklet and Sigismund Thalberg and composition with

Simon Sechter Simon Sechter (11 October 1788 – 10 September 1867) was an Austrian music theorist, teacher, organist, conductor and composer. He was one of the most prolific composers who ever lived, although his music is largely forgotten and he is now mainl ...

. From 1840 to 1844 he performed in Hungary, Romania and Vienna. In 1848, he became correspondent for the '' Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung'', pianist of King George V of Hanover in 1852, moving to Wiesbaden in 1855. Two years later he went to England and finally settled in Berlin in 1862. There he acquired an excellent reputation as a piano player of Beethoven's compositions. From 1864 to 1872 he was a piano teacher at the Stern Conservatory. Among his pupils were Franz Mannstädt, Friedrich Spiro and Felix Dreyschock, the critic Paul Marsop and

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. In addition to his teaching activities, he was in Berlin a political correspondent for the magazines Nordic bee (Russian newspaper, in 1862 and later), ''

Vossische Zeitung The (''Voss's Newspaper'') was a nationally-known Berlin newspaper that represented the interests of the liberal middle class. It was also generally regarded as Germany's national newspaper of record. In the Berlin press it held a special role d ...

'' (1867–69) and ''L'Independence'' (1867–69). In 1875, he received the title of professor.

Books

In addition to his journalistic work, Ehrlich became a writer and published novels and musical studies, which were very popular in his day, among which are ''Schlaglichter und Schlagschatten aus der Music Welt'' (1872), '' Wie übt man Klavier?'' (1879, 2nd edition 1884), ''Die Music Aesthetik in ihrer Entwickelung von Kant bis auf die Gegenwart'' (1881), '' Aus allen Tonarten'' (1888), ''Dreissig Jahre Künstlerleben'' (1893), '' Modernes Musikleben'' (1895) and other novels.

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