Xaver Scharwenka

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Franz Xaver Scharwenka (6 January 1850 8 December 1924) was a Polish-German pianist, composer and teacher. He was the brother of (Ludwig) Philipp Scharwenka (1847 1917), who was also a composer and teacher of music. Franz Xaver Scharwenka was born in Samter, Prussia (now Szamotu y, Poland) in 1850. Although he began learning to play the piano by ear when he was 3, Scharwenka did not start formal music studies until he was 15, when his family moved to Berlin and he enrolled at the Akademie der Tonkunst. Under Theodor Kullak, his pianistic skills developed rapidly, and he made his debut at the Singakademie in 1869. He taught at the academy until entering military service in 1873.... Mehr