Music/Dance
PAUER
(Ernst, 1825-1905, Austrian Pianist, Teacher and Composer)
Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
headed 'Andante', for piano, 4 and a bit bars in B flat major, 4/4 time, on 2 staves, a pleasant reflective tune in quavers with a good number of accidentals in the lower parts from the start, 1 side oblong folio, London, 23rd October
Item Date: 1872
Background
Pauer wrote 'Musical Form' for Novello, 1878, and 'Dictionary of Pianists and Composers for the Piano', 1895. He studied as a young man with Mozart's son, F. X. W. Mozart. From 1876 he taught at the National Training School of Music, which became the Royal College in 1883, till his retirement in 1896. Before the age of recordings he made many valuable piano transcriptions of orchestral works for students.
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