Arthur Loesser

Arthur Loesser ( born August 26, 1894 in New York; † January 4, 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio) was an American pianist, music educator and writer -.

The half-brother of composer Frank Loesser attended New York 's City College and then studied zoology at Columbia University before a student of Sigismond Stojowski and Percy Goetschius was at the Institute of Musical Arts, the forerunner of the Juilliard School of Music.

In 1913 he made ​​his debut as a pianist in Berlin. In the following years he made extensive concert tours: the USA and Australia with the violinist Maud Powell (1914-1919), with the Russian violinist Mischa Elman by Japan, China and the Philippines (1920-1921) and with the singer Ernestine Schumann - Heink again by the United States ( 1921-1922 ).

Since 1926 he was a professor at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Since 1943, he served in the U.S. Army Intelligence Department in the rank of Major and came across this property in late 1945 to Tokyo, where he - was with the Nippon Philharmonic Orchestra concert - in uniform.

After the war he was again at the Cleveland Institute, where he headed the piano department since 1953, along with a music critic for the Cleveland Press. After Humor in American Song (1943 ) published in 1953 his main work Men Women and Pianos: A Social History. In 1965, he was next to Albert Petrak and Gregor Benko of the founders of the International Piano Archives ( later International Piano Archives at Maryland - APAM ), whose first president was.

• Classic pianist
• Author
• University teachers ( Cleveland)
• Music teacher
• Americans
• Born 1894
• Died in 1969
• Man