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Moritz (Maurice) Moszkowski (23 August 18544 March 1925) was a German-Jewish composer, pianist, and teacher of Polish descent on his paternal side.〔Aimeé M. Wood, ''(Moritz Moszkowski ),'' Etude Magazine. January, 1910. Accessdate: 11 June 2012〕〔(Encyclopædia Britannica ) states that he was "German" born while other sources call him Jewish, for instance, Lewis Stevens in ''Composers of classical music of Jewish descent.'' Still, others state that he claimed to be of Polish nationality.〕 His brother Alexander Moszkowski was a famous writer and satirist in Berlin. Ignacy Paderewski said: "After Chopin, Moszkowski best understands how to write for the piano, and his writing embraces the whole gamut of piano technique." Although less known today, Moszkowski was well respected and popular during the late nineteenth century. ==Life and career== He was born in Breslau, Prussia (now the Polish city of Wrocław), into a wealthy Polish-Jewish family whose parents had come to Breslau from Pilica, near Zawiercie, in 1854. He was an ardent Jew at a time when many Jews downplayed their Jewishness.〔Faubion Bowers, Liner notes from Ilana Vered's recording of the 15 Virtuoso Études, Op. 72〕 He showed early talent from a very tender age, beginning his musical training at home until 1865, when his family moved to Dresden. There he continued his piano studies at the conservatory. He moved to Berlin in 1869 to continue his studies first at the Julius Stern's Conservatory, where he studied piano with Eduard Franck and composition with Friedrich Kiel, and then at Theodor Kullak's ''Neue Akademie der Tonkunst,'' where he studied composition with Richard Wüerst and orchestration with Heinrich Dorn. There he became close friends with the Scharwenka brothers, Xaver and Philipp. In 1871 he accepted Kullak's offer to become a teacher in his academy; as he was also a more than competent violinist, he sometimes played first violin in the orchestra. In 1873 Moszkowski made his first successful appearance as a pianist, and soon began touring the nearby cities in order to gain experience and establish his reputation. Two years later he was already playing his piano concerto on two pianos with Franz Liszt at a matineé before a selected audience invited by Liszt himself.〔Gerard Carter and Martin Adler, ''(LISZT PIANO SONATA MONOGRAPHS – Arthur Friedheim’s Recently Discovered Roll Recording ),'' p. 30, epubli (2010), ISBN 3869317957〕〔This composition was the Piano Concerto in B minor Op. 3, which only received its orchestral premiere in January of 2014. The E major Concerto Op. 59, a work composed and dedicated to Josef Hofmann, was published in 1899. It was about this time that Moszkowski's works were first published, such as the first set of ''Spanish Dances'' Op. 12, originally written for piano duet and later orchestrated by Philipp Scharwenka, who arranged the violin parts, and Valentin Frank (1858–1929).〕 Retaining his post as a teacher at the Berlin conservatory from 1875,〔Moszkowski retained his post as a teacher at the conservatory for twenty five years.〕 he had among his pupils Frank Damrosch, Joaquín Nin, Ernest Schelling, Joaquín Turina, Carl Lachmund, Bernhard Pollack, Ernst Jonas, Wilhelm Sachs, Helene von Schack, Albert Ulrich and Johanna Wenzel. Moszkowski then travelled successfully throughout Europe under the reputation of being an exceptional concert pianist and brilliant composer, having also gained some recognition as a conductor. In 1884 Moszkowski married the younger sister of pianist and composer Cécile Chaminade, Henriette Chaminade, with whom he had a son named Marcel and a daughter named Sylvia.〔Lazaros C. Triarhou, (Moritz Moszkowski ),'' Vol. 67 No. 6 (2012), European Neurology. Accessdate: 10 June 2012〕 By the mid-1880s, Moszkowski began suffering from a neurological problem in his arm and gradually diminished his recital activity in favor of composing, teaching and conducting.〔 In 1887 he was invited to London where he had the chance to introduce many of his orchestral pieces. There he was awarded honorary membership by the Royal Philharmonic Society. Three years later his wife left him for the poet Ludwig Fulda and a divorce was issued two years later.〔 In 1897, famous and wealthy, Moszkowski moved to Paris,〔S. Pratt, Waldo, (The History of Music: A Handbook And Guide for Students ),'' p. 680, Kessinger Publishing (2004), ISBN 1417938714〕 where he lived on rue Blanche with his daughter.〔In 1906, he lost his 17-year-old daughter Sylvia while his son was engaged in the French army.〕 In Paris he was frequently sought after as a teacher, and was always generous in investing his time on aspiring musicians. Among his Parisian students were Vlado Perlemuter, Thomas Beecham (who took private lessons in orchestration with him on the advice of André Messager in 1904), Josef Hofmann (of whom he claimed once that there was nothing anyone could teach him),〔 Wanda Landowska, and, informally, Gaby Casadesus. In the summer he rented a villa near Montigny owned by the French novelist and poet Henri Murger.〔 In 1899 the Berlin Academy elected him a member. He was many times invited by piano manufacturers to appear in the United States to show off their pianos, but despite being offered massive fees, he always refused.〔 In 1908, by the age of 54, Moszkowski had already become a recluse as he began to suffer from poor health. His popularity began to fade and his career slowly went into decline. He stopped taking composition pupils because "they wanted to write like artistic madmen such as Scriabin, Schoenberg, Debussy, Satie ...".〔 His last years he spent in poverty for he had sold all his copyrights and invested the whole lot in German, Polish and Russian bonds and securities, which were rendered worthless on the outbreak of the war. Two of his former pupils, Josef Hofmann and Bernhard Pollack came to his aid. Through the intervention of Pollack, who sent new piano arrangements of Moszkowski's opera ''Boabdil'' to Peters Publishing House in Leipzig, he collected an extra 10,000 francs camouflaged as royalties besides a gift of 10,000 marks and personal donations of 10,000 marks from Hofmann and 5,000 marks from himself.〔 On 21 December 1924, when he was ill and heavily in debt, his friends and admirers arranged a grand testimonial concert on his behalf at Carnegie Hall, involving 15 grand pianos on stage. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Percy Grainger, Josef Lhévinne, Elly Ney, Wilhelm Backhaus and Harold Bauer were among the performers, and Frank Damrosch conducted (Paderewski telegrammed his apologies).〔Moszkowski was certainly influential in having Paderewski publish his early piano pieces.〕 The concert netted US$13,275, with one part transferred to the Paris branch of the National City Bank of New York in order to provide immediate relief from his financial problems, and an annuity purchased at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, whereby he would receive US$1,250 annually for the rest of his life.〔〔The sum was equivalent to 15,000 francs, with the first monthly payment arranged for 1 March 1925.〕 However, Moszkowski's illness lingered and he died from stomach cancer on 4 March of the next year, before the supply of funds could reach him. 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