Niemann, Walter (1876-1953). German composer, pianist, and writer on music, who had graduated from the Leipzig Conservatory in 1898 with a dissertation on mensural notation. Of his many books, in 1907 he published a history of keyboard music, and he later published a book on virginal music (1920). He was critic of the Leipziger neueste Nachrichten, 1907–17, where he was outspoken and sometimes vitriolic. Max Reger (of whom S was himself a harsh critic) threatened to sue him for libel. Niemann denounced the "pathological" and "sensuous" music of Richard Strauss, Mahler and Schoenberg (again, objects of S's continuous hostile criticism). ( NGDM ) |
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| Niemann, Walter (1876-1953). German composer, pianist, and writer on music, who had graduated from the Leipzig Conservatory in 1898 with a dissertation on mensural notation. Of his many books, in 1907 he published a history of keyboard music, and he... | |