Georges Pfeiffer

[1] His mother Clara had been a pupil of Frédéric Kalkbrenner and Henri Bertini; at his parents' home in Paris, the Pfeiffers were regular hosts to musical salon events.

Pfeiffer received his piano tuition from his mother, and he studied composition privately with Pierre Maleden and Berthold Damcke.

[2] In mid- to late nineteenth-century Paris, he was much in demand as a pianist in chamber music events, performing in high-profile recitals with Pablo Sarasate, Auguste Franchomme, and others.

As a music critic, he wrote for the journals Voltaire and La Mode illustrée, also a number of longer articles for the Revue musicale.

His "opéra bouffe" Le Légataire universel (1897) featured a number of sentimental arias reminding of operettas.