Ernest Hutcheson

Ernest Hutcheson ( born July 20, 1871 in Melbourne, † February 9, 1951 ) was an Australian music teacher, pianist and composer.

The gifted son of a blacksmith, had his first piano lessons at the age of five and gave Max Vogrich his first concerts. At the age of fourteen he went to Leipzig and studied at the Conservatory with Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn. After graduating in 1890 he continued his studies at the Liszt pupil Bernhard Stavenhagen in Weimar. Here he married the Baroness Irmgard Senfft of Pilsach, with whom he went to London in 1898.

After a stay in Berlin, where he, inter alia, Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Ferruccio Busoni met, he taught from 1900 to 1912 at the Peabody Institute. From 1911 to 1944 he directed the School of Music of Lake Chautauqua. In 1912 he undertook a concert tour of Europe and lived until the outbreak of World War in Germany again. Around 1932 he had more than a thousand piano students. In 1933 he became the successor of Frank Damrosch as dean of the Institute of Musical Art, a predecessor of the Juilliard School, and in 1937 as a successor to John Erskine its president.

Hutcheson wrote, inter alia, a symphony, a symphonic poem, a piano concerto, a concerto for two pianos and a violin concerto. In his later years he wrote several books, including A Musical Guide to Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, A Guide to Elektra, Elements of Piano Technique and The Literature of the Piano.

Swell

• Andrea Olmstead: " Juilliard: A History ", reprint University of Illinois Press, 2002, ISBN 9780252071065, pp. 96 ff
• Larry Sitsky: "Australian Piano Music of the Twentieth Century ", Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005, ISBN 9780313322860, pp. 56-57

• Man
• Born in 1871
• Died in 1951
• Classic pianist
• Music teacher
• Australian composer