Publisher's Synopsis
This monograph on the Liszt student Conrad Ansorge (18621930) shows us the life of a pianist from around 1900 who first caught the attention of famous contemporaries in Vienna as a Beethoven interpreter and later as a composer. How the events developed can be read from the correspondence with the poet friend Richard Dehmel and with the founder of the Wiener Ansorge Verein, Wilhelm von Wymetal, in which Mahler, Schönberg, Webern and Zemlinsky, but also Karl Kraus, Schnitzler, Strauss, The focus is on Oskar Fried and her many friends. In addition to these documents, published for the first time, and Ansorge's comprehensive concert calendar, this volume looks at his close relationship with the visual arts in Berlin bohemianism, which culminated in impressive portraits of Max Slevogt and Lovis Corinth.
