Alfred Hoehn

Hoehn learned the basics of piano playing from his father and went to Frankfurt in 1900, where he became a pupil at the Hoch Conservatory at the same time as attending a Realgymnasium.

As early as 1907 he was given a teaching position at the Hoch Conservatory by director Iwan Knorr, which he held until 1916 and then ended at his own request.

In 1929 Hoehn again became a teacher at the Hoch Conservatory and after its partial transformation into the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, he was professor and head of the master class in 1938.

Hoehn's career was ended in the spring of 1940 by a stroke which he suffered during the rehearsal for the 2nd Piano Concerto by Brahms in the Gewandhaus (Leipzig).

As a result, he was paralyzed and died after a long illness on August 2, 1945 in the hospital of Königstein im Taunus at the age of 57.

In addition to his work as a travelling concert pianist, Hoehn had already devoted himself to pedagogical tasks as a lecturer, private tutor and professor since his student years.

His pupil Georg Roth is of the opinion that Hoehn's system is a fusion of ideas that can be traced back to the 19th century (Friedrich Wieck, Clara Schumann, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt) through Hoehn's lessons with Lazzaro Uzielli and the suggestions of Eugen d'Albert and Ferruccio Busoni.

Its fingering is in the tradition of older pianism, as can be seen in the editions of Hans von Bülow, Eugen d'Albert, Ferruccio Busoni or Alfred Cortot.

System Welte-Mignon(M. Welte & Söhne, Freiburg im Breisgau) Phonola(Ludwig-Hupfeld AG, Leipzig)