Carl Friedberg

Carl Rudolph Hermann Friedberg ( born September 18, 1872 in Bingen, † September 9, 1955 in Trieste ) was a German pianist and music teacher.

Friedberg studied from 1883 to 1887 at the Hoch Conservatory with James Kwast and was two years a pupil of Clara Schumann afterwards. He made his orchestral debut in 1892 with the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Gustav Mahler. The following year he got a job as a piano teacher at the Hoch Conservatory, which he held until 1904. Then he taught until 1914 at the Rheinische Music School in Cologne.

In 1914 he made ​​his debut as a pianist at New York's Carnegie Hall. The outbreak of World War I prevented his return to Germany, and he undertook concert tours throughout the United States and taught from 1916 as the successor to Rudolph Ganz at the Institute for Musical Arts, which later became the Juilliard School of Music. In 1918 he went to Germany, where he replaced Artur Schnabel Schnabel Trio / Flesch / Becker. 1919 brought him Frank Damrosch as a teacher for the advanced piano students again at the Institute of Musical Arts. His many students included, inter alia, William Masselos, Serious Freudenthal, Ilse Fromm, Maro Ajemian, Malcolm Frager, Jeanne Therrien, Jane Carlson, Bruce Hungerford, Percy Grainger, Ethel Leginska, Yaltah Menuhin, Elly Ney, Erwin Schulhoff and Jascha Zayde.

In 1953, Friedberg some works of Robert Schumann on record on, including the Symphonic Etudes and the Romance in F sharp major. In 1954, he visited for the first time since the outbreak of the Second World War Europe. On the journey at a scheduled summer course in Munich Friedberg died the following year in Trieste, Italy.

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  • Schumann Portal - Carl Friedberg
  • Marston Records - Carl Friedberg: Artist and Teacher
  • University of Maryland - University Libraries - Carl Friedberg
  • Classic pianist
  • Music teacher
  • German
  • Born in 1872
  • Died in 1955
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