Eduard Langer

Langer was born in Moscow, Russian Empire, in 1835. His father (1802–1885) was a Swiss German organist. He began studying music as a child under his father's guidance. In 1851, Langer left Russia for Austria to attend the Leipzig Conservatory. There, he studied piano under Ignaz Moscheles and and composition under Moritz Hauptmann and Julius Rietz until 1853. == Career ==

After returning to Russia from Leipzig, Langer began teaching. In 1860, he was invited by Nikolai Rubinstein to teach piano and music theory at the Russian Musical Society in Moscow. Six years later, he became a professor of piano at the Moscow Conservatory. His most notable students include the renowned virtuoso teacher Karl Kipp, composer Sergei Taneyev, cellist Anatoliy Brandukov, and Antonina Miliukova, who later married Tchaikovsky. Langer transcribed the orchestral and symphonic works of Russian composers including Mikhail Glinka, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Anton Arensky, and Nikolai Rubinstein for piano in two, four, and eight hands. His most notable transcriptions are those of Tchaikovsky, his friend and colleague at the conservatory who dedicated his Capriccioso (op. 19 no. 5) to Langer in 1873. Two letters sent from Tchaikovsky survive, one from April 1880 in Saint Petersburg and another from September 1880 in Kamenka, Russia. In the latter, Tchaikovsky asks for his aid in republishing 4-hand arrangements of Symphony No. 1, Symphony No. 3, and The Tempest. He died on May 7, 1905, in Moscow, aged 70. == Personal life ==

Langer married Amalia Katharina Dempt, with whom had a son, Moritz Otto-Leopold, and a daughter, Ekaterina. He was a Lutheran. He began playing organ at Protestant churches in Moscow in 1855. ==References==