Pronounce xaver scharwenka biography
Pronounce xaver scharwenka biography
Pronounce xaver scharwenka biography death!
Xaver Scharwenka
German pianist and composer (1850–1924)
Musical artist
Theophil Franz Xaver Scharwenka (6 January 1850 – 8 December 1924) was a German pianist,[1]composer and teacher of Polish descent.
He was the brother of Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka (1847–1917), who was also a composer and teacher of music.
Life and career
Scharwenka was born in 1850 in Samter, Prussia (Polish: Szamotuły; until 1793 and since 1919 part of Poland).
Pronounce xaver scharwenka biography wikipedia
His paternal ancestors originally came from Prague, then moved to Frankfurt on the Oder in 1696 - probably for reasons of faith - and settled thereafter in Samter.[2] His father, August Wilhelm, was a gifted master-builder but decidedly did not have an ear for music.
His mother, née Golisch, was an ethnic Pole from a family of some means, who was musically inclined and early on instilled in her children a love of music. Although he began learning to play the piano by ear when he was 3, Scharwenka did not start formal music