The controversial German pianist, composer, critic, Wagnerite and musicologist writes a one page autographed letter signed with two musical quotations Halensee, Aril 2, 1905.  The letter which includes the correspondence envelope is written to Max Werner, the Director of the Berlin Liedertafel.

Tappert (1830-1907) is an interesting fellow, he was gifted enough a pianist to teach in Liszt’s pupil Carl Taussigs’ Berlin piano school from 1866 until it closed shortly before his death.  He started out as a seminarian destined for the priesthood, but decided his future lay in music and left to pursue musical studied in 1856. He went to Berlin to Theodor Kullak’s  Neue Akademie der Tonkunst which had opened the previous school year to study with Kullak and Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn.  When Dehn passed away in 1858 he decided his education was completer and he took a position as a teacher and critic in Glowgow, Poland.  By 1866 he was back in Berlin  teaching at Taussig’s school and writing criticism and articles on music for various publications including the “Klavierlehrer” and edited the important “Allgemeine deutsche Musikzeitung” from 1876 to 1880 when he got into some trouble for accepting bribes for favorable criticism at one point.  A confirmed Wagnerite, he published in 1877 a lexicon of abuse foisted on Wagner and his disciples by the public.  At his death, his library was purchased by the Berlin Staatsbibliothek.

  As a composer, Tappert arranged German folksongs, composed songs and wrote solo piano works, including a book of 30 Etudes for the left hand alone. 

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