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MAX VON PAUER (LONDON, OCTOBER 31, 1866 – JUGENHEIM, MAY 12, 1945)

Pauer was born in London in 1866, the son of the pianist Ernst Pauer and his wife Ernestine Pauer, née Andreae. He studied piano with his father at the Royal Academy of Music together with Eugen d’Albert until 1885, and composition with Vincenz Lachner at the Grand Ducal Conservatory in Karlsruhe from 1885. From 1887 to 1897 he taught at the Cologne Conservatory and from 1897 to 1924 at the Royal Conservatory for Music in Stuttgart. In 1908 he succeeded Samuel de Lange as director of the institution, for his services he was awarded by King Wilhelm II of Württembergennobled. In 1920 he transformed the conservatory into a modern music academy. From 1924 to 1932 he headed the State Conservatory of Music in Leipzig . From 1933 to 1934 he was director of the municipal music academy in Mannheim. In the spring of 1917, in the middle of the First World War , he undertook a tour of Germany with the violinist Melanie Michaelis , including to Berlin and Freiberg . He was a world-renowned pianist who attached great importance to faithfulness to the work and, like his father, published numerous arrangements of works.

TRACKLIST

837 WELTE-MIGNON BEETHOVEN – Andante favori, WoO 57, F

839 WELTE-MIGNON MENDELSSOHN – Sadness of Soul, Op. 53, No. 4, F (Songs w / o Words)

842 WELTE-MIGNON LISZT – Harmonies Poétiques – No. 3: Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude

844 WELTE-MIGNON LISZT – Transcendental Etudes – No. 11, Db Harmonies du soir

845 WELTE-MIGNON PAUER – Petite valse, Op. 6, No. 3

50288 TRIPHONOLA Rondo Capriccioso (Mendelssohn)