Alfred Reisenauer

Alfred travel Auer ( born November 1, 1863 in Königsberg, † October 3, 1907 in Libau ) was a German pianist, composer and music educator.

Travel Auer was a child prodigy, he was briefly a student of Louis Köhler and, since 1874, a student of Franz Liszt, with whom he remained until his death in 1886. He was one of the most important piano pedagogues and pianists of his time, since 1885, he was first piano teacher at the Conservatory Sondershausen, the same director later since 1900 Piano teacher at the Conservatory of Leipzig. His students include, among others Sigfrid Karg- Elert, Sergei Bortkiewicz and Anatol of Roessel.

As a pianist he has been extremely successful and well-known for his sensitive playing. His greatest successes as a pianist he had in Germany and Russia. Overall, he gave more than 2,000 concerts, including except in Berlin and Leipzig numerous in Helsinki, Moscow and Siberia, Boston (Mass. ) and New York, but also in China. He set to music numerous songs.

On April 10, 1905 he took ten piano pieces for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano at the Leipzig recording studio of Welte.

Travel Auer was strong alcoholic and drank to his concert tours large quantities of champagne. He died in 1907 during a concert tour in Libau in his hotel room, after he gave a dazzling performance.