Iwan Knorr, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Iwan Knorr

German teacher of music

Date of Birth: 03-Jan-1853

Place of Birth: Gniew, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 22-Jan-1916

Profession: composer, musicologist, music pedagogue

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Iwan Otto Armand Knorr (3 January 1853 – 22 January 1916) was a German composer and teacher of music.
A native of Mewe, he attended the Leipzig Conservatory where he studied 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, Roger Quilter, Hans Pfitzner, and Cyril Scott.
Knorr died in Frankfurt.