Heinrich Neuhaus

Felix Heinrich Neuhaus (Russian Генрих Густавович Нейгауз, scientific transliteration Genrich Gustavovič Nejgauz; * 31 Märzjul / April 12 1888greg in Jelisawetgrad, .. † October 10, 1964 in Moscow) was a Russian- Ukrainian pianist and music educator significant German ancestry.

Life

Heinrich Neuhaus was born into a musical family, his parents were piano teachers. His father Gustav came from a manufacturing family ( "from the Lower Rhine town of Kalkar, they owned the Pianofortefabrik W. Neuhaus sons "). His mother Marcellina born Blumenfeld was the older sister of the Russian composer, conductor and pianist Felix Blumenfeld.

Henry's first notable appearance was held in Dortmund in 1904. After extensive concert tours he was a student of Leopold Godowsky in Berlin at the Royal Academic College of Music, still a pupil of Heinrich Barth, also from Berlin and Vienna in the Master School of the Vienna Academy of Music. According to a professor at the Conservatory in Kiev, he moved in 1922 to the Moscow Conservatory, where he remained until his death. His focus was the lesson here. Among his students were famous pianists Emil Gilels, Sviatoslav Richter, Igor Zhukov, Vladimir Krainew, Vera and Radu Lupu Gornostajewa. His assistants included his son Stanislaw, Yevgeny Malinin and since 1955 his pupil Lev Naumov; this was to Neuhaus ' death, his successor at the Moscow Conservatory.

Heinrich Neuhaus married a total of three times. His first wife Zinaida Nikolaevna married after the amicable separation in 1930 the writer Boris Pasternak. With her ​​Neuhaus had two children: Adrian ( " Adik " ), whose death represented a serious blow to Neuhaus in 1945, and a son, Stanislaw, pianist like his father. From the second marriage with Miliza Sergejewna Sokolova - Borodkina the daughter Milica emerged. The third marriage to the Swiss Sylvia Aichinger remained childless.

More misfortunes in the life of Heinrich Neuhaus was a diphtheria in 1933 and the arrest and subsequent detention in 1941. Neuhaus was then suspected to wait for the arrival of the Germans, as the troops of the Wehrmacht near Moscow were he in the Russian capital remained.

A grandson of Neuhaus is the pianist Stanislav Bunin, son of Stanislav Neuhaus. Another grandson of Heinrich Neuhaus is a theologian and pianist, lives in Israel.