Pauer, Ernst

PAUER, Ernst, pianist and eminent teacher of the piano, was born at Vienna, Dec. 21, 1826. His father was first minister of the Lutheran church, Director of the theological seminary in Vienna, and Superintendent-General of the Lutheran churches of the Austrian Empire; his mother was a Streicher, of the great pianoforte-making family, so intimately connected with Beethoven. The cultivation of his early musical talent was not allowed to prejudice his general education; the study of the classics and...