Eduard Erdmann

Eduard Erdmann was a Latvian-born German pianist and composer whose greatest successes occurred in the era of the Weimar Republic. Essentially a modernist, Erdmann's music is reminiscent of Alban Berg and the more progressive post-Romantic approach found in Gustav Mahler's late symphonies. However, Erdmann did not make use of twelve-tone derived techniques, and his music remained essentially tonal within a rather broad harmonic context. Erdmann undertook piano studies in Riga from the age of 11 and eventually graduated to master classes with Conrad Ansorge, a former student ...