Heinrich Neuhaus

(tutored by Heinrichs father, Gustav Neuhaus) and espe-

cially his uncle Felix Blumenfeld on his visits to his sisters
home. He also received some lessons from Aleksander
Michaowski.[1] In 1902 he gave a recital in Elisavetgrad
with the 11-year-old Mischa Elman and in 1904 gave con-
certs in Dortmund, Bonn, Cologne and Berlin. Subse-
quently he studied with Leopold Godowsky in Berlin and
from 1909 until the outbreak of World War I at his master
classes in Vienna Academy of Music.
In 1912, Neuhaus attempted suicide by cutting a wrist.
He had attended a concert in Berlin in which Arthur Ru-
binstein premiered his good friend Karol Szymanowski's
Heinrich Neuhaus 1962
piano sonata, and he left a suicide note saying that the
concert had made clear to him that he would never be
Heinrich Gustavovich Neuhaus (Russian: - successful as a composer or a pianist and that he could
, Genrikh Gustavovi Nejgauz; 12 not go on living, and was going to Florence, Italy to die.
April [O.S. 31 March] 1888 10 October 1964) was a Szymanowski and Rubinstein hastily followed Neuhaus
Soviet pianist and pedagogue of German extraction. He to Florence and tracked him down to a hospital, where he
taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1922 to 1964. was recovering.[2]
He was made a Peoples Artist of the RSFSR in 1956.
His pedagogic book The Art of Piano Playing (1958) is In 1914 Neuhaus started teaching in Elisavetgrad and
regarded as one of the most authoritative and most widely later Tbilisi (Tiis) and Kiev (where he befriended
used treatments on the subject. He died in Moscow in Vladimir Horowitz). After having been temporarily par-
1964. alyzed, Neuhaus was forced to halt his concert career
in the interests of his pedagogical activities. In 1922
he began teaching at the Moscow Conservatory where
he was also director between 1935 and 1937. When
the Germans approached Moscow in 1941, he was im-
prisoned on suspicion of being a German spy, but re-
leased eight months later under pressure from Dmitri
Shostakovich, Emil Gilels and others. His pupils there
included Yakov Zak, Sviatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels,
Anatoly Vedernikov, Tikhon Khrennikov, Galina Me-
likhova, Yevgeny Malinin, Lev Naumov, Tamara Guseva,
Ryszard Bakst, Teodor Gutman, Vera Gornostayeva,
Alexander Slobodyanik, Leonid Brumberg, Igor Zhukov,
Oleg Boshniakovich, Anton Ginsburg, Valery Kastelsky,
Grard Frmy, Zdenk Hnt, Eliso Virsaladze, Alexei
Lubimov, Aleksey Nasedkin, Vladimir Krainev, Berta
The house where Heinrich Neuhaus was born. Kirovohrad Maranz, Evgeny Mogilevsky, Amalya Baiburtyan, Radu
Lupu, Valentina Kamenkov, Victor Derevianko, Vera
Razumovskaya and Nina Svetlanova.

1 Life and career

He was born in Elisavetgrad (known since 2016 as
Kropyvnytskyi), in present-day Ukraine. Although both
his parents were piano teachers, he was largely self-
taught. The biggest inuences on his early artistic devel-
opment came from his second cousin Karol Szymanowski
2 Legacy
Neuhaus was renowned for the poetic magnetism of his
playing and for his artistic renement. He was a lifelong
friend of Boris Pasternak, and Osip Mandelshtam ex-
pressed his admiration for Neuhauss playing in a poem.

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Stanislav Neuhaus, Heinrichs son by his rst wife Zinaida

(who married Pasternak in 1931), was also a noted pi-
anist; Stanislav Bunin is his grandson.

3 Notes
[1] J. Methuen-Campbell, Chopin Playing from the Composer
to the Present Day (Gollancz, London 1981), 73.

[2] Arthur Rubinstein, My Young Years (Knopf, 1973), 372.

4 Further reading
Neuhaus, Heinrich (1998). The Art of Piano Play-
ing. London: Kahn & Averill. ISBN 1-871-08245-
5.

Barnes, Christopher (2007). The Russian Piano

School. London: Kahn & Averill. ISBN 1-871-
08288-9.

5 External links
Neuhaus.it

Ninasvetlanova.com
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