Paul Weingarten

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Jury of the Chopin Competition 1932. Paul Weingarten 6th from left, next to Marguerite Long
Paul Weingarten's grave

Paul Weingarten (born April 20, 1886 in Brno , Austria-Hungary ; died April 11, 1948 in Vienna ) was an Austrian pianist and music teacher .

Life

Paul Weingarten studied music history at the University of Vienna . He finished his studies in 1910 with the acquisition of a doctorate. He studied music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . His teachers included Emil von Sauer (piano), Robert Fuchs (music theory) and Guido Adler .

After traveling through Europe as a concert pianist, he became a piano teacher at the Vienna Music Academy . According to the testimony of the jazz keyboardist Joe Zawinul , who was his student at the Vienna Conservatory, he left Austria until he returned in 1945 to give a piano masterclass at the Vienna Music Academy. Students with him were u. a. Ingrid Haebler .

He was married to Anna Maria Josefa Elisabeth von Batthyány-Strattmann (born March 23, 1909 in Kittsee , † September 21, 1992, Vienna), a daughter of Ladislaus Batthyány-Strattmann .

Weingarten died in 1948 and was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery (30B-1-22) in an honorary grave .

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