Adolf or Andrey or Adolf Andrey Schulz-Evler (12 December 185215 May 1905) was a Polish

Poles

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-born composer.

Born in Radom

Radom

Radom is a city in central Poland with 223,397 inhabitants . It is located on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship , having previously been the capital of Radom Voivodeship ; 100 km south of Poland's capital, Warsaw.It is home to the biennial Radom Air Show, the largest and...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 (at that time part of the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...

), he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory, then under Carl Tausig

Carl Tausig

Carl Tausig was a Polish virtuoso pianist, arranger and composer.-Life:Tausig was born in Warsaw to Jewish parents and received his first piano lessons from his father, pianist and composer Aloys Tausig, a student of Sigismond Thalberg. His father introduced him to Franz Liszt in Weimar at the...

 in Berlin. From 1884 to 1904 he taught at the Kharkiv

Kharkiv

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 Music School.

He wrote about 52 pieces, most of which are now forgotten. He is best known for his piano transcription of Johann Strauss II

Johann Strauss II

Johann Strauss II , also known as Johann Baptist Strauss or Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son , was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas...

's Blue Danube Waltz

The Blue Danube

The Blue Danube is the common English title of An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 , a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866...

: Arabesques on "An der schönen blaunen Donau." Usually performed only as an encore, it has been recorded by many pianists, including Jorge Bolet

Jorge Bolet

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, Jan Smetterlin, Marc-André Hamelin

Marc-André Hamelin

Marc-André Hamelin, OC, CQ, is a French Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Marc-André Hamelin began his piano studies at the age of five. His father, a pharmacist by trade who was also a pianist, introduced him to the works of Alkan, Godowsky, and Sorabji when he was...

, Earl Wild

Earl Wild

Royland Earl Wild was an American pianist widely recognized as a leading virtuoso of his generation. Harold C. Schonberg called him a "super-virtuoso in the Horowitz class". He was known as well for his transcriptions of classical music and jazz...

, Piers Lane

Piers Lane

Piers Lane is an Australian classical pianist. His performance career has taken him to more than 40 countries. His concerto repertoire exceeds 75 works.- Early life :...

, Byron Janis

Byron Janis

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, Isador Goodman

Isador Goodman

Isador Goodman AM was a South African-Australian Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. He became a household name in Australia in the 1930s-1970s, taught at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music for 50 years, introduced many Australians to classical music, and contributed hugely to music...

 and—perhaps most famously—Josef Lhévinne

Josef Lhévinne

Josef Lhévinne was a Russian pianist and piano teacher.Joseph Arkadievich Levin was born into a family of musicians in Oryol and studied at the Imperial Conservatory in Moscow under Vasily Safonov...

.

His list of works includes:

• Op 2: Invitation a la Valse (Jurgenson)
• Op 4: Variations in G major (Jurgenson)
• Op 5: Melodie (Jurgenson)
• Op 6: Nocturne in F major (Jurgenson)
• Op 8: Revelation I in B major (Jurgenson)
• Op 9: Revelation II in E major (Jurgenson)
• Op 10: Revelation III in F major (Jurgenson)
• Op 11: Serenade (Jurgenson)
• Op 12: “Arabesques” Variations on the Blue Danube Waltz [Strauss] (Jurgenson)
• Op 14: Rhapsodie Russe for Piano & Orchestra (Jurgenson)
• Op 17: Etude pour les octaves (Jurgenson)
• Op 19: “Narzan” Valse (Jurgenson)
• Op 40: Pezzetino amichevole (Jurgenson)
• Donau Walzer (Selbstverlag)
• Echo de la Partita de J S Bach - Paraphrase de Concert (Johansen)
• Fantaisie (Johansen)
• Melodie No. 1 (Gutheil)
• O beaux veux bleus (Jurgenson)
• O toi toutes mes fleurs (Jurgenson)
• Poeme sans paroles (Johansen)

External links

• Biography at the Classical Composers Database