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James Kwast (23 November 185231 October 1927) was a Dutch-German pianist and renowned teacher of many other notable pianists. He was also a minor composer and editor. ==Biography== Jacob James Kwast was born in Nijkerk, Netherlands, in 1852. After studies with his father and Ferdinand Böhme in his home country,〔(Bach cantatas )〕 he became a student of Carl Reinecke at the Leipzig Conservatory, and had later studies in Berlin under Theodor Kullak, and Brussels under Louis Brassin and François-Auguste Gevaert. He settled in Germany in 1883, initially as a teacher at the Cologne Conservatory, and later at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt and the Klindworth-Scharwenka (1903–06) and Stern conservatories in Berlin. He participated in the first performance in England of Brahms’s Piano Trio in C minor, with Carl Fuchs and Carl Deichmann.〔(Archives Hub )〕 Clara Schumann played her last public concert in Frankfurt on 12 March 1891. The last work she played was Brahms's ''Variations on a Theme by Haydn'', in the piano-duet version, with Kwast as her partner.〔Peter Clive. (''Brahms and His World: A Biographical Dictionary'', p. 403 ). Retrieved 23 October 2014〕 He died in Berlin in 1927, aged 74. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Kwast」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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