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
3264 WELTE-MIGNON BRAHMS – Ballade, Op. 10, No. 1, d
3265 WELTE-MIGNON BRAHMS – Ballade, Op. 10, No. 2, D
3266 WELTE-MIGNON BRAHMS – Ballade, Op. 10, No. 3, b
3267 WELTE-MIGNON BRAHMS – Ballade, Op. 10, No. 4, B
3272 WELTE-MIGNON PEMBAUR – Scherzo energico (Ade Bagage) Op. 37, 2.
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