Ludvig Schytte was a Danish

Denmark

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 composer

Composer

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, pianist, and teacher.

Born in Aarhus, Denmark, Schytte studied with Niels Gade and Edmund Neupert

Edmund Neupert

Edmund Neupert was a Norwegian pianist and composer.He was a teacher at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin from 1866-1868. He then moved to Copenhagen, where he held a position at the town's conservatory for two years. In 1881 he travelled to Moscow, and in 1882 he moved to Christiania , where he...

. In 1884, he travelled to Germany to study with Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...

. Schytte lived and taught in Vienna

Vienna

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 between 1886 and 1907 and spent the last two years of his life teaching in Berlin.

Originally trained as a pharmacist, Schytte composed a Piano Concerto in C# minor, Opus 28, and a Sonata in B-flat among numerous other piano works. He also wrote two operas, Hero (25 September 1898 Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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) and Der Mameluk (22 December 1903 Vienna). His shorter works are still used today as educational studies for piano students.

Literature

• School of modern pianoforte virtuosity (Schule des höheren Klavierspiels: technische Studien bis zur höchsten Ausbildung). Edited by Moriz Rosenthal
  Moriz Rosenthal
  Moriz Rosenthal was a great Polish pianist. He was an outstanding pupil of Franz Liszt and a friend and colleague of some of the greatest musicians of his age, including Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Anton Rubinstein, Hans von Bülow, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet and Isaac...
  
  and Ludvig Schytte. Berlin, ca. 1890.

• Die Schule des modernen Klavierspiels ... School of Modern Pianoforte Playing. A Collection of Studies as Introduction to Modern Harmony, Melody, Rhythm and Style. Op. 174, etc. London: A. Lengnick & Co, 1912.

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