Background
Isidor Wilhelm Seiss was born in Dresden in 1840.
composer conductor music educator
Isidor Wilhelm Seiss was born in Dresden in 1840.
His surname also appears as Seiß, and his first name also appears as Isidore. His first musical studies were under Friedrich Wieck (piano) and Julius Otto (theory), before going to Moritz Hauptmann in Leipzig 1858-1860. He conducted the Cologne Musical Society.
His notable students included Engelbert Humperdinck, Elly Ney (for nine years before she moved on to Leschetizky and Sauer), Willem Mengelberg, Carl Lachmund, Frederick Corder, Volkmar Andreae, Maurits Leefson, Henri Weil, Karl Krill and others
Dedications to Isidor Seiss included:
Edvard Grieg: Book III (Op 43) of the Lyric Pieces
Josef Rheinberger: Toccata in C minor, Operation 115
August Winding: Preludes in All the Keys, Operation
26. He wrote some educational pieces for piano and other minor works.
He also arranged some of Beethoven"s Contredanses and German Dances for piano. He also revised Weber"s Piano Concerto Number.
2 in East-flat, and published editions of Mendelssohn"s Capriccio brillante in B minor, and other works. Isidor Seiss died by his own hand in Cologne in 1905, having suffered increasing blindness that had forced him to retire from his teaching position.
He also bequeathed over half a million marks to the city of Cologne.