Victor Fenigstein

Victor Fenigstein (born December 19, 1924 in Zurich ) is a Swiss composer and piano teacher .

After initial violin lessons, Fenigstein learned piano with Emil Frey at the conservatory in his hometown and as a master student with Edwin Fischer in Lucerne. As a composer he is largely self-taught, but besides philosophy and ethnology he also studied musicology at the University of Zurich. At the beginning of a pianist career, Fenigstein was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and the artist was forced to limit himself to composing and teaching. Fenigstein moved to Luxembourg in 1948, where he was professor of piano at the Conservatory of Music until 1985.

Fenigstein composed stage and orchestral music, songs and chamber music, especially numerous pieces for piano:

• Victor Fenigstein, Instrumental and Orchestral Works , with Alex Mullenbach and Maria Luisa Lopez-Vito (piano), Alexandre Magnin (flute) LP Apollo Sound, London 1974. AS 1019
• The holy Johanna der Schlachthöfe , Singspiel 5 acts by Bertolt Brecht , also English. Version; First performed in Augsburg in 1986
• The murderer's mother , Singspiel for mezzo-soprano, baritone and some instruments, text by Egon Erwin Kisch ; First performed in Bielefeld in 1987
• Shakespeare 's Sonnets I - CLIV . Music by Victor Fenigstein with a foreword by Hans Heinrich Meier, Luxembourg, Fonds Culturel National du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg undated [1990], VI, 193 pp. Score. Facsimile; First performed in Stuttgart in 1983
• Six dances for clarinet quartet . (I. Thibaut von Vallormes, II. Guillemette, III. Denise, IV. Aunt Angelika, V. Paris, [Hommage à J.-Ph. Rameau], VI. Quoneschi; based on figures from Gottfried Keller's novella Die Berlocken ). Edition Kunzelmann 1980.

literature

• Fritz Hennenberg and Luc Deitz : My life - a game: a portrait of the composer Victor Fenigstein. Kairos Edition , Luxembourg 2005, ISBN 2-9599829-0-8
• Fritz Hennenberg: Victor Fenigstein. Life protocol, work comments, catalogs . Pfau, Saarbrücken 2013, ISBN 978-3-89727-475-4 ( index [accessed on September 3, 2019]).

Web links

• Works by and about Victor Fenigstein in the catalog of the German National Library