Main article: History of music in Russia
Biography
Konstantin Ivanovich von Sternberg was born in St. Petersburg in 1852 in a family of ethnic Germans and studied piano with Moscheles in Leipzig, as well as with Friedrich Wick in Dresden and Theodor Kulak in Berlin, as well as for some time with Liszt in Weimar.
Sternberg later developed a career as a concert pianist with tours of Russia. He also toured a number of countries, not only in Europe, with the famous singer Desiree Artaud.
After his American debut in 1880 and several tours, he became director of the College of Music in Atlanta (USA), and then founded the Sternberg School of Music.
His work as a piano teacher was praised and he published two books on the technical aspects of piano playing. He also wrote a significant number of solo and chamber works, his teachers of composition in Leipzig were Moritz Hauptmann and Karl Reinecke.
Sternberg died in Philadelphia in 1924.
Of Sternberg's works for piano trio, the Piano Trio No. 3 in C major, Op. 104 (1912), recorded by the Russian "Brahms Trio."
Ivan Moody
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