Heinrich Gebhard
{{Short description|German-American pianist, composer and piano teacher}}
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| death_place = North Arlington, New Jersey, US
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Heinrich Gebhard (July 25, 1878 – May 5, 1963) was a German-American pianist, composer and piano teacher.
Performer
Gebhard was born in Sobernheim, Germany on July 25, 1878.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bakersbiographi00bakegoog/page/301/mode/1up |title=Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians |edition=3rd |editor1-first=Theodore |editor1-last=Baker |editor2-first=Alfred |editor2-last=Remy |publisher=G. Schirmer, Inc. |page=301 |date=1919 |access-date=2024-07-30 |via=Internet Archive}} He moved at the age of 10 with his parents to Boston, Massachusetts in the United States, where he studied piano and composition with Clayton Johns until 1895. He went to Vienna, Austria for four years, where he studied under Theodor Leschetizky, and returned to Boston in 1899. He made his piano debut in 1900 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He enjoyed a lengthy career as one of the notable American pianists of the early 20th century. Later in his career, he became a music teacher and taught a number of other famous pianists, most notably Leonard Bernstein.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1aPyEzYri7UC&pg=PA78 | last = Laird | first = Paul R. | authorlink = Paul R. Laird | title = Leonard Bernstein: A Guide to Research | year = 2002 | publisher = Routledge | isbn = 0-8153-3517-2 | page = 78 |access-date=2024-07-30 |via=Google Books}} The composers Peggy Stuart Coolidge, Alan Hovhaness, and Ruth Roberts also studied with him.{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |title=International Encyclopedia of Women Composers |date=1987 |publisher=Books & Music (USA) |isbn=978-0-9617485-1-7 |pages=589 |language=en}}
Composer
Gebhard composed music for piano, chamber orchestra and symphony orchestra. His Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra was given its first performance by the New York Philharmonic on November 12, 1925, with the composer at the piano. Among Gebhard's other works are the symphonic poem, Across the Hills (1940), Divertimento for Piano and Chamber Orchestra (1927), Waltz Suite for two pianos, the song cycle, The Sun, Cloud and the Flower and numerous works for piano.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bakersbiographic0007slon/page/807/mode/1up |title=Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians |edition=7th |editor-first=Nicolas |editor-last=Slonimsky |publisher=G. Schirmer, Inc. |isbn=019311335X |page=807 |date=1984 |access-date=2024-07-30 |via=Internet Archive |url-access=registration}}
Gebhard's book, The Art of Pedaling, was published posthumously in 1963.
Later life
Gebhard died in North Arlington, New Jersey on May 5, 1963.{{Cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B02E7D9163EE03BBC4E53DFB3668388679EDE |title=Heinrich Gebhard, Pianist and Teacher |newspaper=The New York Times |place=North Arlington, N. J. |page=29 |date=1963-05-05 |publication-date=May 6, 1963 |access-date=September 10, 2015 |url-access=subscription |quote=Heinrich Gebhard, pianist, teacher and composer, died here today at the age of 84. He had lived with his daughter, Mrs. John Petrick of 5 Millar Place.}}
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Category:German classical pianists
Category:American male composers
Category:American classical pianists
Category:American male classical pianists
Category:American music educators
Category:Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States
Category:Musicians from the Rhine Province
Category:People from North Arlington, New Jersey
Category:Educators from New Jersey