Ern Dohnanyi (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Ern Dohnanyi (July 27, 1877 - February 9, 1960) was a Hungarian conductor, composer, and pianist. He used the German form of his name Ernst von Dohnanyi on most of his published compositions. The Dohnanyi family was ennobled by Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor and also King of Hungary. Dohnanyi was born in Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (today's Bratislava, capital of Slovakia). He first studied music with his father, a professor of mathematics and amateur cellist, at gymnasium, but afterwards became a pupil at the Budapest Academy of Music, studying piano and composition with Carl Forstner, organist of the Bratislava Cathedral. In 1894 he became a pupil of Istvan Thoman for piano and of Hans Koessler for composition. Bela Bartok was one of his classmates there. Dohnanyi's first published composition, his Piano Quintet in C minor, earned the approval of Johannes Brahms, who promoted the work in Vienna.