Heinrich Heinrich Neuhaus Neuhaus (tutored by Heinrich’s Heinrich’s father, Gustav Neuhaus) and especially cially his unc uncle le Felix Blumenf Blumenfeld eld on his visi visits ts to hissisters hissisters’’ home. He also received received some lessons from from Aleksander Aleksander Michałowski..[1] In 1902 he gave a recital in Elisavetgrad Michałowski with the 11-year11-year-old old Misc Mischa ha Elma Elman n and and in 1904 1904 gav gave conconcerts in Dortmund Dortmund,, Bonn Bonn,, Cologne and and Berlin. Berlin. Su Subs bseequently he studied with with Leopold Leopold Godowsky in Godowsky in Berlin and from rom 1909 1909 until until the outbr outbrea eak k ofW of Wor orld ld War I at his master master classes in Vienna in Vienna Academy of Music. Music. In 1912, Neuhaus attempted suicide by cutting a wrist. He had attended a concert in Berlin in which Arthur Rubinstein premiered binstein premiered his good friend Karol friend Karol Szymanowski's Szymanowski's piano sonata, and he left a suicide note saying that the concert had made clear to him that he would never be successful as a composer or a pianist and that he could not go on living, and was going to Florence, Italy to die. Szymanowski and Rubinstein hastily followed Neuhaus to Florence and tracked him down to a hospital, hospital, where he was recovering.[2]
Heinrich Neuhaus 1962
Heinrich Gustavovich Neuhaus (Russian ( Russian:: Ге ́ нрих Гу ста́ вович вович Нейга Нейга́ уз, Genrikh Gustavovič Gustavovič Nejgauz Nejgauz; 12 April [O.S. [O.S. 31 31 March] 1888 – 10 October 1964) was a Soviet pianist and pianist and pedagogue of German of German extraction. extraction. He taught at the Moscow the Moscow Conservatory from Conservatory from 1922 to 1964. He was made a People’s Artist of the RSFSR in 1956. His pedagogic book The Art of Piano Playing (1958) is rega regarde rded d as one of the most most autho authori ritat tativ ivee and most most wide widely ly used treatmen treatments ts on the subjec subject. t. He died in Moscow in 1964.
In 1914 Neuhau Neuhauss started started teaching teaching in Elisav Elisavetgr etgrad ad and later Tbilisi (Tiflis) (Tiflis) and Kiev (where (where he befrie befriende nded d Vladimir Horowitz). Horowitz). After having been temporarily paralyzed, alyzed, Neuhau Neuhauss was forced forced to halt his concert concert career career in the interests interests of his pedagog pedagogica icall activiti activities. es. In 1922 he began teaching at the Moscow Conservatory where he was also direc director tor betwee between n 1935 1935 and 1937. 1937. When When the Germans the Germans approached approached Moscow in Moscow in 1941, he was imprisoned prisoned on suspic suspicion ion of being being a German German spy, spy, but released leased eight eight months months later later under under pressure pressure from from Dmitri Shostakovich,, Emil Gilels and others. Shostakovich others. His pupils pupils there included Yakov Yakov Zak Zak,, Sviatoslav Richte Richterr, Emil Gilel Gilelss, Anatoly Vede Vederniko rnikov v, Tikhon Khrennik Khrennikov ov,, Galina Melikhova,, Ye likhova Yevgen vgeny y Malinin Malinin,, Lev Naum Naumov ov,, Tamara Gusev Gusevaa, Ryszard Rys zard Baks Bakstt, Teodor Teodor Gutma Gutman n, Vera Gornostay Gornostayeva eva,, Alexander Slobodyanik, Slobodyanik, Leonid Brumberg Brumberg,, Igor Zhukov, Zhukov, Oleg Boshniakovich, Boshniakovich, Anton Ginsburg, Ginsburg, Valery Kastelsky, Kastelsky, Gérard Frémy, Frémy, Zdeněk Hnát, Hnát, Eliso Virsaladze, Virsaladze, Alexei Lubimov,, Aleksey Nasedkin, Lubimov Nasedkin , Vladimir Krainev Krainev,, Berta Maranz,, Evgeny Mogilevsky, Maranz Mogilevsky , Amalya Baiburtyan, Baiburtyan, Radu Lupu,, Valentina Kameníková, Lupu Kameníková, Victor Derevianko, Derevianko, Vera Razumovskaya and Razumovskaya and Nina Nina Svetlanova. Svetlanova.
The house where Heinrich Neuhaus was born. Kirovohrad
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He was was born born in Elisa Elisave vetgr tgrad ad (know (known n sinc sincee 2016 2016 as Kropyvnytskyi), Kropyvnytskyi ), in present-day Ukraine present-day Ukraine.. Althoug Although h both his parents parents were were piano teacher teachers, s, he was largely largely selfselftaught. The biggest influences on his early artistic developme opment nt came came from his second second cousi cousin n Karol Szymanow Szymanowski ski
Legacy
Neuhaus was renowned for the poetic magnetism of his playing and for his artistic refinement. He was a lifelong friend friend of Boris Pasternak, Pasternak, and Osip Mandelshtam expressed his admiration for Neuhaus’s playing in a poem. 1
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Stanislav Neuhaus, Heinrich’s son by his first wife Zinaida (who married Pasternak in 1931), was also a noted pianist; Stanislav Bunin is his grandson.
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[1] J. Methuen-Campbell, Chopin Playing from the Composer to the Present Day (Gollancz, London 1981), 73. [2] Arthur Rubinstein, My Young Years (Knopf, 1973), 372.
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Neuhaus, Heinrich (1998). The Art of Piano Playing. London: Kahn & Averill. ISBN 1-871-082455. Barnes, Christopher (2007). The Russian Piano School . London: Kahn & Averill. ISBN 1-87108288-9.
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