JOSEF PEMBAUR
(INNSBRUCK, 20 APRIL, 1875 – MUNICH, 12 OCTOBER, 1950)
Born in Innsbruck, Pembaur was
the son of the composer and music director Josef Pembaur the Elder (1848–1923).
He got his first musical education by his father. From 1893 until 1896, he
studied piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Ludwig
Thuille, conducting with Ludwig Abel and composition and organ with Josef
Gabriel Rheinberger. He was awarded a gold medal at the final examination in
1896. From 1896 to 1901, he worked as a piano teacher at the same school. In
1901/02, he continued his studies with Alfred Reisenauer at the University of
Music and Theatre Leipzig, where he was employed as a teacher for higher piano
playing. In 1912, he was appointed professor of music in Saxony. In 1921, he
was appointed professor in Bavaria, but he returned to the Academy of Music in
Munich and taught a master class for piano. His students included Anna Renfer.
Pembaur also completed numerous concert tours. In Berlin he was one of the
judges in the competition for the Ibach Prize. In Spring 1919, Pembaur took
eight piano pieces for the Reproduktionsklavier Welte-Mignon, including two compositions
by his father, probably his earliest recordings. On 29 October 1918, Thomas
Mann heard him in an event with Joachim von Delbrück, who was reading from his
novel Der sterbende Chopin that evening. In 1906, he married the pianist Maria
Elterich, and the two of them also performed together on two pianos. Pembaur's
brother Karl was a composer and choirmaster in Dresden. Pembaur died in Munich
at the age of 75.
TRACKLIST
1. 3264 WELTE-MIGNON BRAHMS - Ballade, Op. 10,
No. 1, d
2. 3265 WELTE-MIGNON BRAHMS - Ballade, Op. 10,
No. 2, D
3. 3266 WELTE-MIGNON BRAHMS - Ballade, Op. 10,
No. 3, b
4. 3267 WELTE-MIGNON BRAHMS - Ballade, Op. 10,
No. 4, B
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