Robert Teichmüller was a German concert pianist

Pianist

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 and music educator.

He studied piano and music theory with Carl Reinecke

Carl Reinecke

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 at the Leipzig Conservatory where he later became a faculty member in 1897, promoted to professor in 1908. He became one of the most influential piano teachers of his time. His students included notable pianists Günther Ramin

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, Sigfrid Karg-Elert

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, Harry Dean

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, Kurt Hessenberg

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, Eileen Joyce

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, Rudolf Wagner-Régeny

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, Herbert Albert

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, Rudolf Mauersberger

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, and Ernst Oster, who became a music theory teacher. He also edited piano music of Mozart and Max Reger. In 1927 wrote an ongoing survey of "International Modern Piano Music" with Kurt Hermann.

In German

• Alfred Baresel: Robert Teichmüller und die Leipziger Klaviertradition, Peters, Leipzig 1934.
• Alfred Baresel (Hrsg.): Robert Teichmüller als Mensch und Künstler, Leipzig 1922.
• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Hannover 1996, S. 606

In English

• VanWart, Helen: Letters from Helen. Sybertooth. Sackville, New Brunswick 2010. ISBN 9780981024493 (Letters from a student of Teichmüller, from 1913-14)

External links

• Photo of Teichmüller

Full text (English) of International Piano Music, 1927