He immigrated to the US in 1915, and became Head of the Piano Department at Chicago Musical College, before moving to Berkeley, California, where he became esteemed as one of the best piano teachers on the West Coast.[4]
Music and Dance in California and the West, Richard Drake Sauners
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alexander, raab, march, 1882, october, 1958, hungarian, american, pianist, distinguished, piano, teacher, born, győr, also, known, raab, hungary, studied, vienna, conservatory, under, hans, schmitt, 1835, 1907, robert, fuchs, theodor, leschetizky, became, acqu. Alexander Raab 14 March 1882 2 October 1958 1 was a Hungarian American pianist and distinguished piano teacher 2 Alexander Raab was born in Gyor also known as Raab Hungary He studied at the Vienna Conservatory under Hans Schmitt 1835 1907 Robert Fuchs and Theodor Leschetizky and became acquainted with Johannes Brahms 3 He presented recitals with the violinist Jan Kubelik in England Russia Germany and France He immigrated to the US in 1915 and became Head of the Piano Department at Chicago Musical College before moving to Berkeley California where he became esteemed as one of the best piano teachers on the West Coast 4 He performed concertos with the Tonkunstler Orchestra of Vienna Chicago Symphony Orchestra Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra Leopold Godowsky dedicated his 1931 transcription of Adolf von Henselt s Etude in F sharp major Si oiseau j etais Op 2 No 6 to Raab 5 Alexander Raab s piano students included Ernst Bacon 6 Vera Bradford 7 George J Buelow 8 Muriel Kerr 9 Wanda Krasoff who had been referred to Raab by Josef Hofmann 3 Mortimer Markoff 10 Sumner Marshall 11 Robert Owens 4 and Allan Willman 12 His pupils also studied under teachers such as Alfred Cortot 4 Nadia Boulanger 12 Rudolph Ganz Percy Grainger 7 Ernest Hutcheson 9 and Paul Wells See List of music students by teacher R to S Alexander Raab He made a small number of early Duo Art and Welte Mignon piano roll recordings with music of Chopin Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor Funeral March Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 5 in E minor Mozart Brahms and some salon pieces by minor composers These recordings appear on CD alongside such distinguished names as Alfred Cortot Guiomar Novaes Ignaz Friedman Arthur Friedheim Vladimir de Pachmann Ferruccio Busoni Josef Hofmann and Harold Bauer 13 References edit The piano in concert Compiled and annotated by George Kehler Scarecrow Press 1982 Vol II p 1011 Music web international a b Steven Heitman website Archived 2009 01 07 at the Wayback Machine a b c The African American Art Song Alliance Robert Owens Archived 2008 05 29 at the Wayback Machine Godowsky s Paraphrases and Transcriptions Archived from the original on 2008 11 04 Retrieved 2008 11 07 About Ernst Bacon Archived 2006 02 06 at the Wayback Machine a b Australian Women s History Forum Vera Bradford Archived 2013 03 05 at the Wayback Machine Festa Musicologica a b Encyclopedia of Music in Canada Muriel Kerr Palo Alto online Mortimer Markoff Encyclopedia of Music in Canada Sumner Marshall a b University of Wyoming News Allan Willman Dal Segno RecordsSources editMusic and Dance in California and the West Richard Drake Sauners Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Alexander Raab amp oldid 1202229050, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
