Iwan Knorr was a German

Germany

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 composer and teacher of music

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. A native of Mewe, he attended the Leipzig

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 Conservatory where he studied with Ignaz Moscheles

Ignaz Moscheles

Ignaz Moscheles was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as head of the Conservatoire.-Sources:Much of what we know about Moscheles's life...

, Ernst Friedrich Richter and Carl Reinecke

Carl Reinecke

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. In 1874 he became a teacher and in 1878 director of music theory instruction at the Imperial Conservatory in Kharkiv

Kharkiv

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, in what is now Ukraine

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. In 1883 he settled in Frankfurt

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, where he joined the faculty of the Hoch Conservatory

Hoch Conservatory

Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium - Musikakademie was founded in Frankfurt am Main on September 22, 1878. Through the generosity of Frankfurter Joseph Hoch, who bequeathed the Conservatory one million German gold marks in his testament, a school for music and the arts was established for all age groups. ...

; in 1908 he became director of the school. As a teacher he exerted great influence; among his pupils were Bernhard Sekles

Bernhard Sekles

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, Ernest Bloch

Ernest Bloch

Ernest Bloch was a Swiss-born American composer.-Life:Bloch was born in Geneva and began playing the violin at age 9. He began composing soon afterwards. He studied music at the conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included the celebrated Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe...

, Vladimir Sokalskyi

Vladimir Sokalskyi

- Biography :Vladimir Ivanovich Sokalsky was born in the family of Ivan Petrovich Sokalsky, a Russian writer. He graduated from Kharkiv musical school, a branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Community, where studied music from Peter Petrovich Sokalsky, and compositions from Iwan Knorr. He also...

, Ernst Toch

Ernst Toch

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, Roger Quilter

Roger Quilter

Roger Quilter was an English composer, known particularly for his songs.-Biography:Born in Hove, Sussex, Quilter was a younger son of Sir William Quilter, 1st Baronet, who was a noted art collector...

, Hans Pfitzner

Hans Pfitzner

Hans Erich Pfitzner was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.-Biography:Pfitzner was born in Moscow, Russia, where his...

, and Cyril Scott

Cyril Scott

Cyril Meir Scott was an English composer, writer, and poet.-Biography:Scott was born in Oxton, England to a shipper and scholar of Greek and Hebrew, and Mary Scott , an amateur pianist. He showed a talent for music from an early age and was sent to the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany to...

. Knorr died in Frankfurt.

Selected Compositions

• Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 1 for Piano Trio
• Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 3
• Ukrainian Liebeslieder for Vocal Quartet and piano accompaniment, Op. 5
• Variations on a Ukrainian Folksong for Orchestra, Op. 7 (published by Breitkopf in 1891)
• Variations on a Russian Folksong for Piano duet, Op. 8
• Eight Songs for mixed choir, Op. 11
• Symphonic Fantasy, Op. 12 (1899)
• Serenade in G-Major for Orchestra, Op.17
• Dunja, Opera in Two Acts, Op. 18 (premiered 1904 in Koblenz
  Koblenz
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• Suite for Orchestra Aus der Ukraine, O/ 20
• Die Hochzeit (the Marriage), Opera (premiered 1907 in Prague)
• Durchs Fenster (Through the Window), Opera in One Act (premiered 1908 in Karlsruhe)

Writings

• Tchaikovsky (Berlin: 1900)
• Materials for teaching Harmony (Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1903, 7 impressions)
• Handbook of Fugal Composition (Leipzig: 1911)
• The Fuges of Bach's Well Tempered Clavier in pictorial representation (Leipzig: 1912)

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