Georg Knepler
Austrian pianist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Georg Knepler was an Austrian pianist, conductor and musicologist. Life Born in Vienna, Knepler was a son of the composer and librettist and nephew of the music publisher and impresario . He studied piano with Eduard Steuermann from 1926, conducting with Hans Gál and musicology with Guido Adler, Wilhelm Fischer, Egon Wellesz, Rudolf von Ficker and Robert Lach at the University of Vienna. In 1931 he received his doctorate with the dissertation Die Form in den Instrumentalwerken Johannes Brahms as Dr. phil. At the same time he accompanied Karl Kraus at the piano from 1928 to 1931, who performed Jacques Offenbach's operettas in Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Munich and other cities. In the same period he worked as Kapellmeister, Korrepetitor and conductor at the Wiener Volksoper and at the , from 1930 to 1931 in Mannheim and with Karl Rankl in Wiesbaden as well as leader of workers' choirs. The years 1932/33 are marked by the collaboration with Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler. He was the piano accompanist of Helene Weigel, who sang Eisler's Wiegenlieder einer proletarischen Mutte at workers' meetings.
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