Professor Emil Samuel Breslaur

Emil Breslaur (* 28. Mai 1836 in Cottbus als Samuel Breslaur; † 26. Juli 1899 in Zehlendorf, Kreis Teltow) war ein deutscher Pianist und Komponist

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Emil Breslaur

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• Description: German Pianist And Composer
• Birth: May 29 1836 - Cottbus, Germany
• Death: June 28 1899 - Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg

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German musician and writer on musical pedagogics; born at Kottbus May 29, 1836. He first attended the gymnasium in his native city, and later the seminary at Neuzelle. Upon his graduation from that institution he became preacher and religious instructor in the Jewish congregation of Kottbus. In 1863 he removed to Berlin in order to take a four-year course in music at Stern's Conservatory, studying with Jean Vogt and H. Ehrlich (piano), Fl. Geyer, Fr. Kiel (composition), H. Schwantzer (organ), and J. Stern (score-reading and conducting).

The Jewish Chronicle - Aug 4 1899

OBITUARY

PROFESSOR SMIL BRESLAUR, Berlin.

Professor Emil Breslaur died in Berlin on the night of the 28th of July. He was a teacher of music. He was a native of Kottbus, where he was born in 1836. He was thus 63 years of age. In his native town he began his career as a teacher of religion and preacher in the Jewish community. But in the beginning of the sixties he came to Berlin, his love for music having induced him to make that his calling. He very soon made a name there as a teacher of music both as to its theories and practical application. He was very talented, and worked indefatigably, and with great zeal in the domain of music. He became Director of the Choir of the Berlin Reformed Synagogue, and acted also as a musical critic and as Manager of the Society of Male and Female Music Teachers of Berlin, which he had founded, and which eventually developed into the "German Society of Teachers of Music." He moreover became the head of a musical' Conservatoire and Seminary. But apart from all these heavy demands upon his time the deceased was also a prolific writer. He wrote numerous pedagogical essays on the subject of the piano ; a great many are to be found in his weekly periodical, Der Clavierlchrer, and they all testify to his great knowledge and his gift as a teacher. His work, "The Technical Basis of Pianoforte Playing," earned for him the title of Professor.