SANDRA DROUCKER
(SAINT PETERSBURG, MAY 7, 1875 - HAMAR, APRIL 1, 1944)
Droucker grew up in Russia, the
child of a German-Jewish father and a Russian aristocratic mother. She was a
student of Anton Rubinstein at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. In 1904 she
published a book about her training with Rubinstein, which conveys Rubinstein's
teaching methods. Extensive concert tours from 1894 made her well known not
only in Russia, but also in England, Italy and Germany and especially in
Scandinavia. Droucker spoke six languages, she had lived permanently in Berlin
since around 1894, where the then 28-year-old was a teacher at the Stern
Conservatory from 1904 to 1906. She also taught atPetersen Academy of Music. On
March 3, 1905, she was one of the first pianists to record 12 pieces for
Welte-Mignon , for which only first-class pianists were selected. From 1905 she
taught piano to Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia. From 1910 to 1918 she was
married to the Austrian pianist Gottfried Galston, during which time she called
herself Droucker-Galston. On March 27, 1913, she made her debut with the Berlin
Philharmonic, which she also accompanied as a soloist on a tour of Scandinavia.
In the 1930s she met Oswald Jonas, who was a student of Heinrich Schenker and
represented his theories, and also taught at the Stern Conservatory from 1930
to 1934. Jonas calls her his student in 1932 and mentions a lecture she gave in
Oslo. Probably stateless since the end of the First World War, she went to
Norway after Hitler seized power, she was banned from working in Germany .
Droucker was fluent in Norwegian and had a number of Norwegian students,
including Anne-Marie Ørbeck, from her time as a piano professor. Bjørn Bjørnson
procured her and Ignaz Friedmana residence permit. In 1938 she became a
Norwegian citizen under Prime Minister Mowinckel after prominent Norwegians
such as Aslaug Mohr and the composer Edvard Sylou-Creutz campaigned for her.
She died in 1944 in the Red Cross Hospital in Hamar, as the hospitals in Oslo
were no longer accepting patients due to the war.
TRACKLIST
1. 265 WELTE-MIGNON CHOPIN - Scherzo No. 3, Op.
39, c#
2. 266 WELTE-MIGNON CHOPIN - Nocturne, Op. 37,
No. 2, G
3. 270 WELTE-MIGNON SCHUMANN - Arabesque, Op.
18, C
4. 271 WELTE-MIGNON TCHAIKOVSKY - Momento
lirico (Lyrical Moment)
5. 274 WELTE-MIGNON LISZT- Gnomenreigen
(Gnomes’ Round Dance) - Concert Etude No. 2, f
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