Otto Weinreich (pianist)

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Otto Weinreich (born January 29, 1882 in Kassel , † 1947 ) was a German pianist .

Life

Otto Weinreich, Protestant, was born in 1882 as the son of Carl Weinreich and his wife Josephine Wolff. He attended secondary school in Kassel and received piano lessons from Hugo Schreiner. From 1900 to 1904 he studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory . There Robert Teichmüller in piano, Paul Quasdorf and Stephan Krehl in theory, Carl Reinecke and Heinrich Zöllner in composition belonged to his teachers. He also studied with Hugo Riemann and Hermann Kretzschmar at the University of Leipzig .

From 1904 to 1906 he worked as a piano teacher and went on concert tours. From 1906 to 1909 he was the conductor of the Fridericiana academic singers in Halle an der Saale. From 1908 he formed the Leipzig Trio with Edgar Wollgandt (violin) and Julius Klengel and from 1926 with Hans Münch-Holland (cello). From 1908 to 1914 he taught at the Dresden Music Academy . He also worked at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1911 , where he became a professor in 1926 . His students included u. a. Ferhunde Erkin , Dieter Zechlin and Amadeus Webersinke .

He was u. a. Member of the Reich Association of German Sound Artists and Music Teachers , the General German Music Association and the International Society for New Music .

literature

  • Erich H. Müller (Ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.

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personal data
SURNAME Weinreich, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH 1947