Heinrich Neuhaus
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Heinrich Gustav Neuhaus was a Russian and Soviet pianist and teacher. Part of a musical dynasty, he was of German descent. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1922 to 1964. Neuhaus was also awar
Heinrich Neuhaus, 1962
The house where Heinrich Neuhaus was born in Kropyvnytskyi (formerly Yelisavetgrad)
Leopold Godowsky
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Leopold Mordkhelovich Godowsky Sr. was a virtuoso pianist, composer and teacher, born in what is now Lithuania to Jewish parents, who became an American citizen in 1891. He was one of the most highly
Heinrich Neuhaus
…recital in Yelisavetgrad with the 11-year-old Mischa Elman and in 1904 gave concerts in Dortmund, Bonn, Cologne and Berlin. Subsequently, he studied with Leopold Godowsky in Berlin and from 1909 until the outbreak of World War I took part in his master classes at the Vienna Academy of Music. In 1912, Neuhaus attended a…
Godowsky (1915)
Godowsky (1935; by Carl Van Vechten)
A page from Godowsky's highly challenging Studies on Chopin's Études (an arrangement of Op. 25, No. 1)
Portrait of the composer at the piano by Polish painter Jan Ciągliński (1911)