Born in Vienna, Wührer began piano study at age six with an Austrian teacher named Marius Szudelsky; after entering the Vienna Academy in 1915, Wührer continued studying piano with Franz Schmidt, along with taking courses in conducting under Ferdinand Löwe and music theory under Joseph Marx.
15; his Pierrot lunaire as part of a touring company presenting the work in Spain;[4] and Webern's Pieces for Cello and Piano, op.
Later in life, Wührer was a juror at the Second Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1966, which awarded first prize to Radu Lupu.
He was denied an academy teaching position in East Germany in 1952, however, on grounds that he had been a leading Nazi in Austria during World War II.
[16] Wührer's students included composers Sorrel Hays,[17] Helmut Bieler,[18] and Richard Wilson;[19] pianists Geoffrey Parsons,[20] Frieda Valenzi,[21] and Felicitas Karrer (who described him as having an unusually well-balanced left hand);[22] and harpsichordist Hedwig Bilgram.
[26] In 1935, Wührer performed piano solos for the Carmine Gallone film Wenn die Musik nicht wär, which is also known in Germany as Liszt Rhapsody and in English-speaking countries as If It Were Not for Music.
While his discography includes 78 rpm records, such releases are outnumbered by his output during the early LP era, which was mostly for the American Vox label.
[28] It omitted a few fragmentary works, but it offered Ernst Krenek's completion[29] of the C major sonata, D. 840 (Reliquie), possibly otherwise represented on records only by Ray Lev's Concert Hall Society account of similar vintage.
Vox bypassed his Schubert sonata cycle in favor of one recorded a few years later in stereo by Walter Klien, but a third party, Bearac Reissues, appears to have issued compact disc editions of the set copied from LPs.