John Petersen - Composer

John Petersen (Hamburg, 21 December 1860 – Berlin, 1 January 1939) was a German violinist, composer and music educator. He studied violin and composition at the Hamburg Conservatory and published his first compositions at the age of fifteen, then completed his training in Paris with the Belgian violinist Hubert Léonard. After touring widely as a concert violinist, he became concertmaster and deputy conductor in Wiesbaden in 1888, and moved to Berlin in 1889. In 1896 he founded his own music school there, the Akademie für Musik, later known as the Konservatorium John Petersen, which he directed for many years. His compositions include a Te Deum with a Kaiserlied on a text by Felix Dahn (1875), violin studies and character pieces (Op. 10–13, including a Perpetuum mobile, an Adagio and an Elegie) and an arrangement of Schumann's Concerto Op. 129 for violin. He also wrote on music education (Über Erziehung durch Musik und über Talent, 1898) and on bowing and declamation in string playing compared with singing (1911). He is buried in the Zehlendorf cemetery in Berlin. Source: Rondo DB


Usual Name	John Petersen
Relationships	is the pupil of Hubert Léonard
Links	RISM person , VIAF , GND , Wikipedia (German)

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