(b Lobstädt, nr Leipzig, 17 June 1853; d Plattling, Bavaria, 2 Aug 1918). German pianist and teacher. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory, where his professors were Wenzel and Reinecke. Following two years of teaching privately, he gave concerts with success from 1878 to 1880, but then his career was halted by a nervous breakdown. Krause's meeting with Liszt in 1882 proved formative, and besides becoming a pupil and one of the composer's foremost advocates (he was a founder of the Lisztverein in Leipzig in 1885), he attempted to make a systematic study of Liszt's technique and teaching methods. As an interpreter, however, his insights into Beethoven's music were of equal significance. After 1900 Krause taught in Dresden and Munich. In 1904 he became a professor at the Stern Conservatory, Berlin, where his pupils included Edwin Fischer, Rosita Renard and, most importantly, Claudio Arrau, who paid tribute to him as an authentic communicator of the Lisztian tradition.
C. Weitzmann: A History of Pianoforte-Playing and Pianoforte-Literature (New York, 1897)
J. Horowitz: Conversations with Arrau (New York, 1982, 2/1992)
JAMES METHUEN-CAMPBELL