Carl Weinrich

This article deals with the organist and music teacher Carl Weinrich; on the NSDAP politician see Karl Weinrich .

Carl Weinrich (born July 2, 1904 in Paterson (New Jersey) , † May 13, 1991 in Princeton (New Jersey) ) was an American organist and music teacher.

Weinrich studied at New York University and took a course with Marcel Dupré in Paris in the summer of 1926 . From 1927 to 1930 he continued his education at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, took private organ lessons with Lynnwood Farnam and piano lessons with Abram Chasins .

He became Farnam's assistant and in 1930 successor as organist at Holy Communion Church in New York. Here he performed all six of Louis Vierne's organ symphonies in early 1932 . From 1934 to 1940 he taught organ at Westminster College , Princeton, from 1936 to 1946 at Wellesley College and from 1942 to 1952 at Columbia University . From 1943 to 1973 he was music director at Princeton Chapel.

Weinrich was considered an expert in the interpretation of the organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach , which he played on numerous concert tours. He also played the works of contemporary composers and edited Arnold Schoenberg's Variations on a Recitative .

In his last years Weinrich fell ill with Parkinson's disease . He died at the age of 86 at Princeton Medical Center .

literature

• Who's Who in America: a biographical dictionary of notable living men and women. : volume 33 (1964-1965). Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1964, p. 2122.