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Emil Krause
1840 - 1916
Germany
Emil Krause (30/07/1840 - 05/09/1916), a German composer (from Hamburg).
Krause studied at the Leipzig Conservatory with a remarkable group of
teachers that had been recruited by Mendelssohn himself, among them
the violinist-theorist Moritz Hauptmann (mentor to talents as disparate as
Arthur Sullivan and Hans von Bülow), later Dresden Music Director Julius
Rietz, and the eminent pianist Ignaz Moscheles (pupil of Salieri and former
assistant to Beethoven). After graduation Krause returned to Hamburg to
teach. He also wrote about musical subjects: multiple methods for piano
and harmony, historical monographs including several biographies and
a noteworthy history of the oratorio, as well as more than four decades
of critiques for Hamburg’s Fremdenblatt. Krause became professor at the
Hamburg Conservatory in 1885 and was awarded the title Royal Professor
in 1893. As a composer he is remembered chiefly for his church music
(including a Requiem and three cantatas), chamber music, Lieder and piano
music (sonatas, variations and etudes).
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