Austrian composer and pianist Eduard Steuermann (1892-1964). Steuermann was born in an Austrian family in Sambir in Poland and studied piano with Vilém Kurz in Lemberg and Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin. He also studied composition with Arnold Schoenberg, and played the piano part in the first performance of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, and premiered his Piano Concerto. He continued his association with Schoenberg as a pianist for the composer's Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna. In 1952 he was awarded the ISCM's Schoenberg Medal. He also taught in the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik at Darmstadt.
In the USA, where he emigrated in 1938, he was famed for his Beethoven recitals of the 1950s and was a distinguished teacher, teaching at the Juilliard School from 1952. In the USA, he was known as Edward Steuermann.
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