Walter Niemann - Piano Sonata No.1 “Romantisches“

Bing Bing Li - Piano (Not the actress) 00:00 Allegro Moderato 08:52 Poco Adagio 18:01 Non troppo allegro e poco giocoso Walter Niemann (1876-1953) was a German Composer. Walter Niemann studied with Engelbert Humperdinck as a youth in Leipzig. He then entered the Leipzig Conservatory where he was a pupil of Carl Reinecke. He pursued doctoral studies in musicology at the University of Leipzig under Hugo Riemann and Hermann Kretzschmar, earning a doctorate in 1901. His dissertation was on early ligatures and mensural music. Niemann first worked as a teacher in Hamburg then served as the editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in Leipzig from 1904 to 1906. From 1907 through 1917 he was a writer and critic for the Neueste Nachrichten in Leipzig. He also taught during those years on the faculty of the Hamburg Conservatory. Niemann’s compositions include 189 opus numbers, of which more than 150 are works for solo piano, chiefly of character pieces. He also composed violin son