Martin Krause
Martin Krause (17 June 1853 – 2 August 1918) was a German concert pianist, piano teacher, music critic, and writer. Born in Lobstädt, Saxony, he was the youngest son of Johann Carl Friedrich Krause, a choirmaster and church schoolmaster.
Krause first attended the teacher-training college in Borna and later studied at the Leipzig Conservatory with Ernst Ferdinand Wenzel and Carl Reinecke. He appeared as a concert performer between 1878 and 1880, but stopped after a nervous breakdown.
In 1882 he became a pupil of Franz Liszt, studying Liszt's technique, and later became one of the most prominent promoters of the Liszt tradition. He established himself in Leipzig as a piano teacher and music writer, and was a founder of the Franz Liszt Association there. From 1900 he also taught in Dresden; he was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in Munich from 1901 and taught at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin from at least 1896 to 1911.
His pupils included Claudio Arrau, Edwin Fischer, Lisy Fischer, Eva Limiñana, Manuel Ponce, Harry Puddicombe, Rosita Renard, and Grete von Zieritz. Krause was also known for his interpretations of Beethoven's music. He died in Plattling in 1918, during the Spanish flu pandemic.
His notable publication was Wagner Almanac 1908, on the Occasion of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Richard Wagner's Death.