Rafael Joseffy

Rafael Joseffy ( born July 3, 1852 in Hounfalou, † June 25, 1915 in New York City ) was a Hungarian pianist and music teacher.

Shortly after his birth parents they moved to Miskolc, where he spent his childhood. Joseffy had from the age of eight piano lessons. His first important teacher was Friedrich Bauer in Budapest, who had also taught Stephen Heller. In 1868 he came to the Conservatory of Leipzig, where he studied with Ernst Friedrich Wenzel and even with Ignaz Moscheles had lessons. From 1868 to 1870 he studied in Berlin with Carl Tausig, in the summer months in 1870 and 1871 with Franz Liszt in Weimar.

His first public appearance was in 1872 in Berlin Joseffy. Until 1879 he lived in Vienna. He undertook many concert tours in Europe. Herman Colell brought him to America in 1879. Under Leopold Damrosch, he debuted in Chickering Hall. As a result, he has performed with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the orchestra of Theodore Thomas. He was one of the first pianists who made ​​known the works of Johannes Brahms ' in the USA.

In 1900 he became an American citizen. Joseffy lived in Tarrytown -on-the -Hudson, near New York.

From 1888 to 1906 he headed the department of piano at the " National Conservatory of Music of America" ​​, which had been founded in 1885. In 1900, 3,000 students had already studied at school.

Joseffy issued a fifteen- volume edition of the works of Frédéric Chopin and wrote a School of Advanced Piano Playing ( "School of Higher Clavierspieles "). He also composed salon music for the piano.

Swell

• Bach Cantatas Biography ( English)
• Joseffy in Britannica