Bruno Zwintscher (15 May 1838 – 4 March 1905) was a German piano educator.
Life
Born in
Ziegenhain (now part of
Nossen) in the
Kingdom of Saxony, Zwintscher attended the
Dresdener Kreuzschule before he became a student of
Louis Plaidy
Louis Plaidy (28 November 1810 – 3 March 1874) was a celebrated German piano pedagogue and compiler of books of technical music studies.
Life
Born in Hubertusburg, Saxony, Plaidy initially focused on the violin, and toured as a concert violini ...
at the
University of Music and Theatre Leipzig in 1856. From 1875 to 1896, Zwintscher himself worked as a piano teacher at this conservatory. His students there included
Anna Diller Starbuck. Afterwards he worked as a private teacher in Dresden. His ''Klavier-Technik'' is an extension of Plaidy's work. He also published ''Musikalische Verzierungen.
Otto, born from Zwintscher's marriage to Frieda, had three sons: the philologist Arthur (1867–1937), the painter
Oskar (1870–1916) and the pianist
Rudolf (1871–1946).
Zwintscher died in near
Radebeul at the age of 64.
Work
* ''Klavier-Technik, 7 Hefte, Leipzig ohne Jahresangabe'' (published in English by C.H. Porter as ''Technical Exercises Systematically'').
* ''Musikalische Verzierungen: Praktische Übungen und theoretische Erläuterungen nebst einen Anhang über den Metronom.'' Leipzig 1895.
* ''Clavier-Technik systematisch geordnet zum Gebrauch bei seinem Unterricht''.
''Clavier-Technik systematisch geordnet zum Gebrauch bei seinem Unterricht''
on WorldCat (1900)
Literatur
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References
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1838 births
1905 deaths
People from Nossen
People from the Kingdom of Saxony
German music educators