Background
Kreutzer was born into a Jewish family.
Kreutzer was born into a Jewish family.
Amongst Kreutzer"s students were Władysław Szpilman, Hans-Erich Riebensahm, Vladimir Horbowski, Karl-Ulrich Schnabel, Franz Osborn, Ignace Strasfogel and Grete Sultan. Leonid Kreutzer also gave musically and technically demanding solo recitals, mostly dedicated to specific composers or themes. At some of these, notably in June 1925, he performed works of contemporaries or modern, avant-garde composers of his time or of the recent past such as César Franck, Claude Debussy, Paul Hindemith, and Paul Juon.
He emigrated in 1933 to Tokyo, Japan.
He is also known as editor of Chopin"s works at the Ullstein-Verlag. He wrote one of the first works on systematic use of the piano pedal ("Das normale Klavierpedal vom akustischen und ästhetischen Standpunkt", 1915).
There are pianos which are built under his name in Japan.