Ewald’s formal musical training began in 1872 when he enrolled at the St Petersburg Conservatory at the age of twelve. Brass players however are indebted to him for something very different – a series of quintets which have become a staple of the repertoire and which represent almost the only, and certainly the most extended examples of original literature in the Romantic style. Ewald’s professional life, like that of many of his musical contemporaries, was in an entirely different field that of a civil engineer, in which he excelled, being appointed in 1900 as professor and manager of the Faculty of Construction Materials at the Institute of Civil Engineers. He also collected and published Russian folk songs. He was born in Saint Petersburg and died in Leningrad. Ewald was a Russian composer of music, mainly for conical brass instruments.
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