Richard Burmeister (1860 in

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– 1944) was a German-American composer and pianist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Biography

Burmeister studied with

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...

(1881–84). He made concert tours through Europe in 1883-85, and in 1885 he married fellow Liszt pupil Dory Petersen. From 1885 to 1897 was the head of the piano department of the

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in Baltimore. Along with fellow composers

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and

Otto Sutro Otto Sutro (1833 – January 19, 1896) was a German-born American organist, conductor, minor composer, publisher and music store owner, and a leading figure in the musical life of Baltimore, Maryland. Biography Sutro was born to a Jewish family i ...

, Burmeister played a sizeable role in the 1890s musical culture of

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. From 1897 to 1899 he was director of the Scharwenka Conservatory of Music's New York City branch. Burmeister returned to Europe and taught at the Royal Conservatory of Dresden and at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin. He died in Berlin in 1944.

Works

His compositions include a concerto in D minor for pianoforte and orchestra,announced as to be performed January 6, 1889 at the Peabody Institute. Se
Musical Yearbook of the United States
(bottom of page, beginning of next page). Published 1890 by F. Luckhardt in reduction- see . a ballade for pianoforte, and “The Chase After Fortune” (described as a “symphonic fantasy”) for orchestra. He also published several arrangements, including an arrangement for pianoforte and orchestra of Liszt's Concerto Pathétique for two pianofortes, a reorchestration of Chopin's F-minor Piano Concerto, and a piano arrangement of Bach's Prelude & Fugue in E-Flat Minor BWV 853.

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* Musicians from Baltimore German composers Peabody Institute faculty Musicians from Hamburg 1860 births 1944 deaths Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States People from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg {{US-composer-stub