Heinrich Urban

Heinrich Urban ( born August 27, 1837 in Berlin, † November 24, 1901 ) was a German composer, violinist and music teacher.

Life

Urban was as a child alto in the Royal Cathedral Choir, later a member of the Chapel Royal. He studied in Berlin at Hubert Ries, Ferdinand Laub, Friedrich Kiel and Richard Hellmann and completed his training in Paris. His most prominent composition was the symphonic poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin. He also composed several overtures ( FIESCO, Scheherazade, to a carnival game), an opera ( Conradin ), a symphony (Spring), a violin concerto, chamber music and songs. From 1881 he taught at the Academy Kullakschen. Among his pupils were, inter alia, the harpsichordist Wanda Landowska, the pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Józef Hofmann as well as the composer Maurice Arnold Strothotte, Felicjan Szopski, Friedrich Niggli, Max Ernst and marshal Baeker. His brother Friedrich Julius Urban was also known as a composer and singing teacher.

Swell

  • WL Hubbard: "The American History and Encyclopedia of Music: Musical Biographies Part Two ", Publisher:. Irving Squire, New York, 1908 reprint Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 9781417907137, p 420
  • Bach Cantatas - Heinrich Urban
  • Edition Romana Hamburg - Heinrich Urban
  • Klassika - Heinrich Urban
  • Man
  • Born in 1837
  • Died in 1901
  • German composer
  • Classical violinist
  • Music teacher
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