Name Leonid Kreutzer | ||
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Died October 30, 1953, Tokyo, Japan Education Saint Petersburg Conservatory Similar People Leo Sirota, Grete Sultan, Conradin Kreutzer, Hidemaro Konoye, Ingrid Fuzjko V Georgii‑Hemming | ||
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Leonid Kreutzer (St. Petersburg, 13 March 1884 – 30 October 1953, Tokyo) was a classical pianist.
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Life and career
Kreutzer was born into a Jewish family. He was a highly influential piano teacher at the Berlin Academy of Music (Berliner Hochschule fur Musik), together with Egon Petri. Amongst Kreutzer's students were Wladyslaw Szpilman, Hans-Erich Riebensahm, Vladimir Horbowski, Karl-Ulrich Schnabel, Franz Osborn, Ignace Strasfogel and Grete Sultan. Leonid Kreutzer also gave musically and technically demanding solo recitals, mostly dedicated to specific composers or themes. At some of these, notably in June 1925, he performed works of contemporaries or modern, avant-garde composers of his time or of the recent past such as Cesar Franck, Claude Debussy, Paul Hindemith, and Paul Juon.
The Nazi targeted him prominently as a cultural enemy: Together with Frieda Loebenstein he is the one of two pianists whose name appears in a list of "tidy-up tasks" ("Aufraumungsarbeiten") compiled by Rosenberg's "Kampfbund fur deutsche Kultur" (Battle-Union for German Culture). He emigrated in 1933 to Tokyo, Japan. He is also known as editor of Chopin's works at the Ullstein-Verlag. He wrote one of the first works on systematic use of the piano pedal ("Das normale Klavierpedal vom akustischen und asthetischen Standpunkt", 1915).
There are pianos which are built under his name in Japan.