Iwan Knorr

Iwan Knorr studied at University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. Training under Ernst Richter, Carl Reinecke and Ignaz Moscheles is recorded. Algernon Ashton, Walter Braunfels and Oskar Fried are recorded as having studied under Iwan Knorr. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Frankfurt. Employment is recorded with Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and Hoch Conservatory.

• Name — Iwan Knorr • Birth Name — Iwan Otto Armand Knorr • Born — 3 January 1853 • Birthplace — Gniew, Province of Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia • Died — 22 January 1916 • Place of death — Frankfurt, Province of Hesse-Nassau, Kingdom of Prussia • Other Names — I. O. Armand • Occupation — Composer and music teacher • Education — Leipzig Conservatory

A native of Gniew, Knorr was taken to southern Russia at the age of four, where he was surrounded by Russian folk music. His mother taught him piano. The family settled in Leipzig in 1868, where Knorr attended the Leipzig Conservatory, studying with Ignaz Moscheles, Ernst Friedrich Richter and Carl Reinecke. In 1874, he became a teacher and in 1878 director of music theory instruction at the Imperial Kharkiv Conservatory, in what is now Ukraine. In 1883, he settled in Frankfurt, where he joined the faculty of the Hoch Conservatory. In 1908, he became director of the school. As a teacher he exerted great influence. Among his pupils were Bernhard Sekles, Ernest Bloch, Vladimir Sokalskyi, Ernst Toch and Hans Pfitzner, as well as the English-speaking composers such as William Beatton Moonie and friends that become known as the Frankfurt Group: Balfour Gardiner, Percy Grainger, Norman O'Neill, Roger Quilter and Cyril Scott. His compositions include three operas, a symphony, a piano quartet and several sets of variations and suites, as well as pedagogical works of counterpoint and fugue, but he was not prolific. His 1888 piece for cello and piano, Variationen über ein Thema von K. Klimsch, has been recorded by Adrian Bradbury and Andrew West.

He also worked under the name Ivan Otto Armand. The authorities additionally record the heading Iwan Otto Armand Knorr. His recorded language was German.

Iwan Knorr is recorded as composer, musicologist, music educator, music teacher and pianist.