Hollander, Alexis

1840-

Pianist and composer; born in Ratibor, Silesia. He studied piano with Schnabel and Hesse in Breslau; at the Royal Academy of Berlin with Grill, and with A. W. Bach he studied composition. Early in his musical career he conducted the scholar's singing society of the Gymnasium of Breslau. In 1861 he was an instructor at Kullak's Academy and later conductor of important choral societies with orchestras, among them the Caecilia, of which he was nominated professor in 1888. Beside his compositions for piano, and piano and violin, songs and part-songs, and studies for choral singers, he has edited an instructive volume of Schumann's piano pieces.