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Tobias Augustus Matthay (19 February 1858 – 15 December 1945) was an English pianist, teacher, and composer.
Matthaw as born in London in 1858 to parents who had come from northern Germany and were naturalised British subjects. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Sir William Sterndale Bennett and also taught there from 1876 to 1925 as professor of advanced piano.
He founded a piano school in 1900 and soon became known for his teaching (known as the Matthay System) that stressed proper piano touch and analysis of arm movements. He published several books of technique, which brought him international recognition. Many of his pupils went on to define a school of 20th century English pianism, including York Bowen, Myra Hess, Clifford Curzon a.o.
He was also the teacher of Canadian pianist Harry Dean and English conductor Ernest Read.
Matthay also composed a quantity of piano music but it is little known.
His wife Jessie née Kennedy, whom he married in 1893, was a sister of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser. She died in 1937.
Tobias Matthay died at High Marley Manor near Haslemere in 1945, aged 87
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