Artur Immisch

Artur Immisch (born 24 November 1902 – 9 January 1949) was a German pianist, and composer. His musical legacy has only been gradually reconstructed since 1990. Life Immisch was born in 1902 in Hermsdorf, then Saxe-Altenburg, as the son of a well-to-do family. In 1912, the Immischs moved to Bautzen. After graduating from high school, he moved to the University of Jena in 1921 to study Jurisprudence and National economics at his father’s request. There, he began his musical education at the same time. He continued his double studies from 1922 to 1923 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and at the Akademie der Tonkunst with Ernst Riemann. He finished it at Leipzig University during the years 1923 to 1928 where he was taught by Carl Adolf Martienssen in artistic piano playing and piano methodology and by Hermann Grabner in music theory and musical composition. In 1926, Immisch received his doctorate in law from Leipzig University. However, he never exercised legal activity; since 1928, he devoted himself exclusively to music. His work as a concert pianist took him to several large cities in Germany, especially to Dresden, where Immisch settled in the early 1930s. He acquired