Robert Teichmüller (4 May 1863, in Braunschweig – 6 May 1939, in Leipzig) was a German concert pianist and music educator. He studied piano and music theory with

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at the Leipzig Conservatory where he later became a faculty member in 1897, promoted to professor in 1908. He became one of the most influential piano teachers of his time. His students included notable pianists Günther Ramin, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Siegfried Rapp, Harry Dean, Kurt Hessenberg, Eileen Joyce, Rudolf Wagner-Régeny, Herbert Albert, Rudolf Mauersberger, Elinor Kaland (maiden name Loose), Leonard Shepherd Munn and Ernst Oster, who became a music theory teacher. He also edited piano music of Mozart and Max Reger. In 1927 he wrote an ongoing survey of "International Modern Piano Music" with Kurt Hermann. __NOTOC__

References

Literature

In German

* Baresel, Alfred: ''Robert Teichmüller und die Leipziger Klaviertradition''. Peters, Leipzig 1934. * Baresel, Alfred (ed.): ''Robert Teichmüller als Mensch und Künstler''. Leipzig 1922. * Jarck, Horst-Rüdiger & Scheel, Günter (eds.): ''Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19. und 20. Jahrhundert''. Hannover 1996, S. 606

In English

* VanWart, Helen: ''Letters from Helen.'' Sybertooth. Sackville, New Brunswick 2010. etters from a student of Teichmüller, from 1913–14.

External links

Photo of Teichmüller

Full text (English) of International Piano Music, 1927
1863 births 1939 deaths University of Music and Theatre Leipzig faculty 19th-century German pianists German music educators Piano pedagogues 20th-century German pianists {{pianist-stub