Eusebius Mandyczewski
Eusebius Mandyczewski was an Austrian composer, musicologist, and music educator. He was born in Chernivtsi on August 18, 1857, the son of an Orthodox priest, Vasily Mandyczewski, and his wife, Sofia Popovich. He died in Sulz, Austria, on July 13, 1929, and was buried in Vienna Central Cemetery.
He began studying music in Chernivtsi with Sidor Vorobkevich and also attended Adalbert Grzymala’s music school. As a teenager, he played in a string quartet with three of his brothers. He later studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Gustav Nottebohm, Robert Fuchs, and Eduard Hanslick.
From 1879, Mandyczewski belonged to Johannes Brahms’s close circle. He directed the Vienna Choral Academy from 1879 to 1881 and later led other choirs. In 1897, he began teaching music history, composition, and counterpoint at the Vienna Conservatory. His students included Hans Gál, George Szell, Artur Schnabel, and Ede Poldini.
Mandyczewski edited complete editions of works by Schubert and Haydn, as well as Brahms’s works with his student Hans Gál. He wrote songs to poems by Taras Shevchenko, Yuriy Fedkovych, Mihai Eminescu, and Heinrich Heine, and arranged works by J. S. Bach, Brahms, and Schubert for piano. His brother Konstantin organized his compositions and arrangements after his death and also wrote a biographical sketch of him.