Hesselberg, Edouard Gregory
Hesselberg, Edouard Gregory
Hesselberg, Edouard Gregory, Latvian-American pianist, teacher, and composer; b. Riga, May 3, 1870; d. Los Angeles, June 12, 1935. He studied at the Cons, of the Moscow Phil. Soc. (1888–92), and later was a private pupil of Anton Rubinstein. In 1892 he went to the U.S., where he taught at the Ithaca Cons. (1895–96), the Music Academy in Denver (1896–1900), the Cons, of Music at Wesleyan Coll. (1900–05), Belmont Coll. in Nashville (1905–12), and the Toronto Cons. (1912–18). He wrote Russian Suite and Russian Rhapsody for Orch. and piano pieces. He also made arrangements for 2 pianos of works by Bach, Chopin, and Schubert.
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