Louis Schnitzler (1869 - 1933)

Louis Schnitzler (1869–1933) had studied with Friedrich Gernsheim in Rotterdam and later became director of Den Hague Conservatory. He was an ‘agile and versatile’ pianist of great ‘musicality and sensitivity to tone and colour’ (Carl Flesch), as can be deduced from Tango (1933), written a few months before his death and dedicated to the South African pianist Raie Da Costa, who recorded many novelty syncopated solos, but who died, very young, the following year.