Julius Prüwer (20 February 1874 – 8 July 1943) was an Austrian conductor, pianist and academic teacher.
Born in Vienna, Prüwer studied piano at the Vienna Conservatory from 1886 to 1891 with Arthur Friedheim and Moriz Rosenthal and music theory with Robert Fuchs, Franz Krenn, and (privately) with Johannes Brahms.
[1] In 1923/24 Prüwer was General Music Director at the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar, then full professor at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1924 to 1933.
In 1936, he took over the symphony orchestra of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden in Frankfurt and taught at the Hollaender Jewish Private Music School in Berlin.
He accompanied well-known singers in vocal recordings as well as the pianist Alexander Brailowsky in piano concertos by Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt, and recorded orchestral works by Franz Schubert (Unvollendete), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Johannes Brahms (Akademische Festouvertüre), Johann Strauss II and others.