Peter Feuchtwanger

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Peter Feuchtwanger (2012)

Peter Feuchtwanger (born June 26, 1930 in Munich ; † June 18, 2016 in London ) was a German pianist , composer and piano teacher who lived in London for many decades.

life and work

Feuchtwanger was born as the son of the Munich bank director Theodor Feuchtwanger (1889–1953). Lion Feuchtwanger was a distantly related uncle of his. During the Second World War the family fled to Haifa . Feuchtwanger's famous piano teachers included Edwin Fischer and Walter Gieseking . The pianist Clara Haskil , who practiced with him on her concert tours in England, and the contralto Kathleen Ferrier were particularly influential to him . He studied composition with Hans Heimler, Lennox Berkeley and Paul Müller-Zürich . He broke off his career as a pianist early on in order to focus on composition and theTo devote to music education. He was a fan of Zen and studied music and philosophy from India and the Arab world .

Before her breakthrough in the Chopin Competition in 1965, he worked intensively with the Argentine pianist Martha Argerich . In the same year he helped Youra Guller make a late comeback in London. Yehudi Menuhin asked him in 1966 to write a work for violin , sitar , tabla and tambura for the International Music Festival in Bath ; it was premiered by Menuhin and Ravi Shankar . In 2003 he founded the International Academy for Musical Education in Karlsruhe with Günter Reinhold. He represented professors at the Karlsruhe University of Music and the Basel Music Academy. He was visiting professor at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Since 1967 he has given master classes all over the world. He developed a new technique for playing the piano, which led to the publication of special piano exercises.

For a long time he was Vice President of the European Piano Teachers Association (London West).

Publications

  • Delicacy was her strength. A record edition in memory of the pianist Clara Haskil . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 218 of September 20, 1975
  • Belcanto on a “percussion instrument?” EPTA documentation 1982, pp. 704–124
  • Technical exercises as preparation for musical design . Das Sängermuseum 4 (1993) H. 2 (also in EPTA documentation 1986)
  • Mozart for the gods. The pianist Clara Haskil . FAZ, No. 6 of July 7, 1995
  • About the importance of sitting correctly at the piano . Piano Exercises, pp. 8–101
  • Non-functional and unnatural movement behavior on the piano . Piano Exercises, pp. 101–103

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homage: One person, one character. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . August 21, 2016. Retrieved December 7, 2017 . , and obituary , The Daily Telegraph June 28, 2016
  2. ↑ The following source, like Lexikon des Klaviers, gives 1939 as the date of birth: Peter Feuchtwanger's memorial page. In: trauer.sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
  3. ^ "Students mourn a legendary piano teacher" by Daniel Grimwood, blog by Norman Lebrecht
  4. ↑ Peter Feuchtwanger, piano teacher - obituary in telegraph.co.uk, June 28, 2016
  5. ^ P. Feuchtwanger: Mozart for the gods
  6. ↑ a b Peter Feuchtwanger
  7. ↑ Günter Reinhold ( Memento from July 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Peter Feuchtwanger, Stefan Blido, Manfred Seewann: Piano exercises to heal physiological playing disorders and to learn a functional-natural piano game. Description and musical text. London, Wertheim, Munich 2004.
  9. ↑ EPTA
personal data
SURNAME Feuchtwanger, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German piano teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2016
Place of death London , England , UK