August Spanuth

August Spanuth was a German music critic, pianist, music teacher, and musicologist. He was born on March 15, 1857, in Brinkum, Germany, and died on January 9, 1920, in Berlin, Germany.

He graduated from the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main in 1874, where he studied with Carl Heymann and Joachim Raff. After completing his studies, he worked in Koblenz and Bremen.

From 1886 to 1906, Spanuth lived in the United States. He appeared as a pianist, taught for a time at the Chicago Conservatory, and worked as a music critic, publishing first in Milwaukee and later in New York. Among his American students was David Saperton.

After returning to Germany, he taught at the Stern Conservatory. From 1907 until the end of his life, he served as editor-in-chief of the newspaper Signals for the Musical World, in which he had previously published reviews of American musical life.

In 1907 he also published Methodology of Piano Playing, written together with Xaver Scharwenka. His wife, Amanda Fabris, was an American opera singer, a mezzo-soprano, who left the stage after their marriage in 1906.

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