Iwan Knorr

Iwan Knorr (pseudonym. IO Armand, born January 3, 1853 in Mewe b Marienwerderstraße; † January 22, 1916 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German composer and music educator.

Life

Iwan Knorr came as a four year old boy with his parents to Russia. Knorr's father, Armand Knorr, was a professional photographer and moved about 1867 from Riga on to Leipzig, when Ivan was 15 years old and already a high school student. The first piano lessons from his mother was Ivan.

At Leipzig he Konservatoriumwar pupil of Ignaz Moscheles, Ernst Friedrich Richter and Carl Reinecke, which his Opus 1 -. 1873 resulting trio variations - are dedicated His other teachers were Salomon Jadassohn, Oscar Paul, Theodor Coccius and Robert Papperitz. Among his fellow students were among the also well known in the music world what has become: Hermann Kretzschmar, Paul Klengel, Edmund Röthlisberger and Karl Muck, who was considered the best player piano at the Leipzig Conservatory.

Knorr 1883 teacher of piano at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main with Bernhard Scholz. Thus, the second period of his life in which he was able to develop as a creative artist and educator for mature age began - no longer strangers and loneliness - but in excited transport and exchange with artists like Bernhard Scholz, Clara Schumann, Lazzaro Uzielli, Ernst Engesser, Fritz Bassermann and many others. The number of pupils of the Conservatory was in the past academic year 1884/85: 127 women and 62 men together = 189 The seminar associated with the Conservatorium was attended by: 6 boys and 16 girls. From 1888, he took on both theory and music history still the subject of free composition. In 1895 he was appointed royal professor. As Scholz 1908 resigned his directorship, Knorr was his successor.

Knorr founded under the patronage of S. Royal. Highness the Landgrave of Hesse 1908 Patronatsverein to support a penniless student.

In 1880, Knorr had married in Kharkov Marie of Schidlowsky.

In a letter of September 1907 to a well-known musician Knorr has its unjust attacks against the backwardness of German Conservatory Head back below:

"I have my students in so many respects that I taught them, expressly said: there are rules that you have to follow her as long as you are a minor, there are crutches that support the lame, but which he quickly throws away when he is cured. Make your way through the independent thinking and feeling, and it has come to this, then whistles to all rules and euern teachers to! [ ... ] I have students formed, I would say, in all price ranges, from the ossified philistines up to the likes of Hans Pfitzner and the brilliant revolutionary Cyril Scott. I have taken pains to respect the individual and treasured me to give him my taste to impose my direction and only sought to deliver him into an accomplished technology possible the sword he will wield in the battle. Courage and strength for victory are not a teacher, but only one God! "

Works (selection)

Moritz Bauer divided in his obituary Knorr's work into three periods:

The opus numbers do not correspond to the formation chronology.

  • Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann for Piano Trio, Op 1
  • Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op 3
  • Ukrainian love songs for vocal quartet and piano accompaniment, op 5
  • Variations on a Ukrainian Folk Song for Orchestra, Op 7 ( published by Breitkopf & Härtel, 1891)
  • Variations on a Russian folk song for piano, Op 8
  • 8 Songs for mixed chorus, Op 11
  • Symphonic Fantasy, Op 12, 1899
  • Serenade in G major for orchestra, Op 17
  • , Dunja, Opera, Act 2, Op 18 (first performed in 1904 in Koblenz )
  • Suite for Orchestra from the Ukraine, op 20
  • The wedding, opera (1907 in Prague)
  • Through the window, Opera, Act 1 ( 1908 in Karlsruhe)

Publications

  • Tchaikovsky, Berlin 1900
  • Tasks for the teaching of the theory of harmony: for the student of Dr. Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt / Main. Compiled by Iwan Knorr, 7th edition, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1903; archive.org
  • Textbook of fugal composition. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1911; archive.org
  • The joints of the well-tempered piano by Seb century. Bach in pictorial representation. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1912; at the University of Rochester
  • Iwan Knorr, Hugo Riemann, Josef Sittard: Johannes Brahms symphonies and other orchestral works Master Guide No. 3 Schlesinger'sche book and music shop, Berlin; archive.org

Students (selection)

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