August Leopolder


August Leopolder was a German pianist and piano pedagogue.

Life

Born in Munich, Leopolder was a student of Carl Adolf Martienssen and Egon Petri. During the Second World War he first taught in Aschaffenburg, then from March 1941 on at the under the direction of Kurt Thomas. From 1950 he was professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, where he also served as senate member and dean of the department of artistic education.
On the occasion of his 100th birthday he was awarded the dignity of Honorary Senator of the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt.
In a press release of the University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main he is described as "a real Bavarian personality with a rough skin and some rough edges but with a soft core".
Leopolder died in Franckfurt aged 101.

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