Anton Urspruch

Anton Urspruch was a German composer and pedagogue who belonged to the late German Romantic era.

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Anton Urspruch, born in Frankfort in 1850, was a notable pianist and composer who studied under Ignaz Lachner, M. Wallenstein, Raff, and Liszt, according to the Dictionary of Music (1896). He held teaching positions at two prominent Frankfort institutions, serving for some time as a teacher of pianoforte playing at the Hoch Conservatorium, and from 1887, at the Raff Conservatorium. Urspruch’s influence extended to several students who later achieved distinction; for instance, the concert-pianist Frederic A. Lamond studied composition under him at the Raff Conservatory in 1882, as recorded in A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). Another pupil, Alfred Hertz, who became a conductor at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, also studied composition with Urspruch at the Hoch Conservatory, attracting the interest of Von Bülow during his student years, as noted in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians: American Supplement (1920). Urspruch’s compositional output, detailed in The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924), included two operas, Der Sturm (1888) and the comic Das Unmöglichste von Allem (1897), alongside choral works, a symphony, a piano concerto, chamber music, and numerous piano pieces, such as five sets of Deutsche Tänze. He also authored Der gregorian. Choral in 1901.