Leonid Kreutzer

Leonid Kreutzer ( born March 13, 1884 in St. Petersburg, † October 30, 1953 in Tokyo ) was a Russian virtuoso pianist and piano teacher of German-Jewish descent.

First, a pupil of Alexander Glazunov and thus grandson student of Nikolai Rimsky -Korsakov, he was informed later by Anna Jessipowa the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

Leonid Kreutzer lived as a teacher and pianist, then in Leipzig, before he moved in 1908 to Berlin, where he in 1921 became professor of piano at the Conservatory of Music. Among his pupils were next Władysław Szpilman Berlin, Hans -Erich Riebensahm, Karl- Ulrich Schnabel, Franz Osborn, Ignace Strasfogel and Grete Sultan. He was musically and technically demanding piano recitals, which were often dedicated to specific composers or themes. Together with Frieda Loeb stone he was on the black list of Rosenberg's " Combat League for German Culture." Kreutzer was a member of the honorary president of the Jewish Cultural League at its inception in the summer of 1933 and joined here by the end of 1933, even multiple times. In 1933 he emigrated not, as erroneously reported in the United States, but directly to Japan, where he worked as a respected pianist and pedagogue another twenty years. Leonid Kreutzer died in 1953 in Tokyo.

He wrote one of the first works on the systematic use of the pedal when playing the piano ( " The normal piano pedal from the acoustic and aesthetic point of view ", 1915), which places special emphasis on the presentation and use of the so-called syncopated pedal. In addition, he was responsible for the publication of the works of Chopin at Ullstein as editor. This issue is particularly instructive because they, along with precise fingerings, also recorded a full, the modern piano pedaling contemporary, often deviates from the Chopin's information.