Eduard Erdmann

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Eduard Erdmann (5 March 1896 – 21 June 1958) was a Baltic German pianist and composer. Erdmann was born in Wenden (Cēsis) in Livonia. He was the great-nephew of the philosopher Johann Eduard Erdmann. His first musical studies were in Riga, where his teachers were Bror Möllersten and Jean du Chastain (piano) and Harald Creutzburg (harmony and counterpoint). From 1914 he studied piano in Berlin with Conrad Ansorge and composition with Heinz Tiessen. In the 1920s and early 1930s his name was frequently cited among Germany's leading composers. Moreover, Erdmann had an international reputation as an outstanding concert pianist whose repertoire encompassed Beethoven and the advocacy of contemporary music. In 1925, he gave the premiere of Artur Schnabel's Piano Sonata, at the Venice ISCM Festival. From 1925 he was professor of piano at the Cologne Academy of Music but was forced to resign from his post by the Nazis in 1935 and became an 'inner exile', composing almost nothing until after the end of World War II. He resumed teaching as Professor of Piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg in 1950, but died of a heart-attack in 1958. His students at Hamburg included Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky. There has been little revival of interest in his own music and all his post-World War II works remain in manuscript; considering his inter-war eminence, he has received remarkably little attention up to the present day, but in 2006 the cpo label began issuing a series of CDs of his orchest

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albums

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Erdman: Symphony No. 4 / Standchen / Monogramme

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Erdmann: Symphony No. 3 / Capricci

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Schubert - Piano Sonatas Nos. 18, 19, 20, & 21 (Erdmann)

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The Creators (CD2)

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Eduard Erdmann plays Schubert

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Schubert: Piano Sonatas Nos. 21 & 19 (Remastered 2022)

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Rarities Of Piano Music 1991 - Live Recording From The Husum Festival

Piano Music - Busoni, F. / Siloti, A. / Medtner, N. / Glinka, M.I. (Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss Vor Husum, 1991 Festival)

Schubert Piano Sonatas

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Reger, Schubert & Schumann: Works for Piano

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MoMu - Meisterwerke Des 20. Jahrhunderts

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Eduard Erdmann spielt: Franz Schubert: Klaviersonate Nr. 21 (1952)

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