Max Erdmannsdörfer

In 1874 he married the pianist and composer Pauline Fichtner, a student of Franz Liszt.

3, which was finally pieced together only in 1989 from separate manuscript pages that had been dispersed as far afield as Weimar, Nuremberg and Leningrad.

While Tchaikovsky wrote that Erdmannsdörfer was "inclined to indulge the public's taste of exaggerated nuances" and "offhanded in his attitude to Russian music (except my own)", he nevertheless considered him "a very skilful, experienced and expert conductor".

[7] One source says Erdmannsdörfer conducted the premiere of Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, Op.

Tchaikovsky so highly valued Erdmannsdörfer's arrangement of his Chant sans paroles, Op.

Erdmannsdörfer supported the introduction of the five-stringed double bass invented by Carl Otho.