Arthur Willner

Arthur Willner ( born March 5, 1881 in gymnastics at Teplice, † 1959 in London ) was a pianist, composer and university teacher.

Life

He grew up in turn in Teplice on in today's Czech Republic and studied at the conservatories in Leipzig and Munich, piano and composition.

1904 to 1924 he was professor of composition, counterpoint, music history, aesthetics at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin and was also temporarily deputy director. In 1924 he moved to the New Vienna Conservatory, where he taught until 1928. In parallel, he taught from 1924 to 1938 at the Vienna Community College and advised the Viennese music publisher Universal Edition.

After the annexation of Austria to Germany in 1938 he emigrated to Britain, where he worked as a concert pianist, chamber musician, composer and arranger. During the time he wrote more than 90 works. With the English composer Ernest John Moeran he was a friend.

His legacy, the " Arthur Willner Collection" is kept in the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.

Works

His more than 250 opus numbers complete oeuvre includes six symphonies, instrumental concertos, other orchestral works, 5 string quartets, two string quintets, two piano trios, duos with piano, solo works, among others They are largely forgotten. Best known for his orchestral arrangement of Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances. In pressure also appeared:

• Tanzweisen
• Enlightenment
• Bagpipes
• Concerto for String Orchestra, Op 37
• Suite for Violin and Cello, Op 46
• Dance Suite (1932 )

Sources and links

• Arthur Willner Collection
• Literature by and about Arthur Willner in the catalog that German national library

• German composer
• Composer
• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• Classic pianist
• Born in 1881
• Died in 1959
• Man