Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Foreword: “The Glowing of Such Fire”—A Tribute to Ralph Kirkpatrick
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Family
- Part Two Friends, Colleagues, and Other Correspondence
- 2 Nadia Boulanger
- 3 Alexander Mackay-Smith
- 4 Wanda Landowska
- 5 John Challis
- 6 Serge Koussevitzky
- 7 Oliver Strunk
- 8 Roger Sessions
- 9 Harold Spivacke
- 10 Steinway & Sons
- 11 New York Times
- 12 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
- 13 John Kirkpatrick
- 14 Alexander Schneider
- 15 Otto Luening
- 16 Donald Boalch
- 17 John Hamilton
- 18 Thornton Wilder
- 19 Lincoln Kirstein
- 20 Arthur Mendel
- 21 Edward Steuremann
- 22 Frank Martin
- 23 Olin Downes
- 24 Albert Fuller
- 25 Elliott Carter
- 26 Quincy Porter
- 27 Vincent Persichetti
- 28 Henry Cowell
- 29 Mel Powell
- 30 Bengt Hambraeus
- 31 Alec Hodson
- 32 Paul Fromm
- 33 Wolfgang Zuckermann
- 34 Kenneth Gilbert
- 35 Mr. and Mrs. George Young
- 36 Colin Tilney
- 37 Oliver Daniel
- 38 Eliot Fisk
- 39 Wilton Dillon
- 40 William Dowd
- 41 Meredith Kirkpatrick
- Afterword: Lessons with Kirkpatrick
- Appendixes
21 - Edward Steuremann
from Part Two - Friends, Colleagues, and Other Correspondence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Foreword: “The Glowing of Such Fire”—A Tribute to Ralph Kirkpatrick
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Family
- Part Two Friends, Colleagues, and Other Correspondence
- 2 Nadia Boulanger
- 3 Alexander Mackay-Smith
- 4 Wanda Landowska
- 5 John Challis
- 6 Serge Koussevitzky
- 7 Oliver Strunk
- 8 Roger Sessions
- 9 Harold Spivacke
- 10 Steinway & Sons
- 11 New York Times
- 12 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
- 13 John Kirkpatrick
- 14 Alexander Schneider
- 15 Otto Luening
- 16 Donald Boalch
- 17 John Hamilton
- 18 Thornton Wilder
- 19 Lincoln Kirstein
- 20 Arthur Mendel
- 21 Edward Steuremann
- 22 Frank Martin
- 23 Olin Downes
- 24 Albert Fuller
- 25 Elliott Carter
- 26 Quincy Porter
- 27 Vincent Persichetti
- 28 Henry Cowell
- 29 Mel Powell
- 30 Bengt Hambraeus
- 31 Alec Hodson
- 32 Paul Fromm
- 33 Wolfgang Zuckermann
- 34 Kenneth Gilbert
- 35 Mr. and Mrs. George Young
- 36 Colin Tilney
- 37 Oliver Daniel
- 38 Eliot Fisk
- 39 Wilton Dillon
- 40 William Dowd
- 41 Meredith Kirkpatrick
- Afterword: Lessons with Kirkpatrick
- Appendixes
Summary
Edward Steuremann (1892–1964) was a Polish-American pianist, composer, and teacher. He studied piano with Vilém Kurz and Ferrucio Busoni and composition with Englebert Humperdinck and Arnold Schoenberg. He formed a close professional association with Schoenberg and performed in many of the premieres of Schoenberg's works. Steuremann moved to the United States in 1938 and joined the Juilliard faculty in 1952. He taught there until his death in 1964. His students included Alfred Brendel, Lorin Hollander, and Theodor Adorno. Compositions he wrote after moving to the United States included a piano trio, a string quartet, several pieces for orchestra, and a cantata. He was known for his recitals of Beethoven's music. Apparently, RK heard one of these recitals and wrote to Steuremann to express his admiration.
March 15, 1952
Dear Mr. Steuermann,
Last Wednesday I did not come backstage to speak to you because I knew you would not then believe what I had to say. Your performance was for me one of the most heartening and deeply satisfying musical experiences I have had for a long time. It is so seldom that one hears music played as one wants it to sound, that instead of false pathos there is an organic and sustained unfolding of the musical fabric itself. Also I am delighted that you played the Dear Mr. Steuermann, Eroica Variations. It has always seemed to me that they deserved to be heard more often.
I hope that I shall see you again before long.
Admiringly Yours,
Ralph Kirkpatrick
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- Ralph KirkpatrickLetters of the American Harpsichordist and Scholar, pp. 112 - 113Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014