Paul Weingarten,
Ph.D.
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(20 April 1886, in City of
Brünn
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,
Margravial Moravia,
Imp.&R. Austria
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– 11 April 1948, in
Vienna
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Second Republic of Austria) was a
Moravia
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The me ...
-born
pianist
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and
music
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teacher
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.
He studied Music History at the
University of Vienna
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, where he obtained a
Ph.D.
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in 1910.
He studied music at the
Vienna Conservatory. Among his teachers were
Emil von Sauer
Emil Georg Conrad von Sauer (8 October 186227 April 1942) was a German composer, pianist, score editor, and music (piano) teacher. He was a pupil of Franz Liszt and one of the most distinguished pianists of his generation. Josef Hofmann called vo ...
(
piano
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),
Robert Fuchs
Robert Fuchs (15 February 1847 – 19 February 1927) was an Austrian composer and music teacher. As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in hi ...
(
theory
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),
Guido Adler
Guido Adler (1 November 1855, Ivančice (Eibenschütz), Moravia – 15 February 1941, Vienna) was a Bohemian-Austrian musicologist and writer.
Biography
Early life and education
Adler was born at Eibenschütz in Moravia in 1855. He moved ...
.
After traveling through Europe as a concert pianist, he became a piano teacher at the
Vienna Music Academy
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With a student body of over three thousa ...
. On his return to Austria, in March 1938, from a concert tour in
Japan
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,
German troops were advancing in Austria. He taught at the ,
Shitaya
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Dist.,
Tokyo Metropolis
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. He left Austria to return in 1945 to give a piano
masterclass
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at the Vienna Academy of Music.
Jazz
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keyboardist
Joe (Josef) Zawinul reports he was taught by Weingarten at the Vienna Conservatory in 1939 before Weingarten "had to leave."
He was married with
Anna Maria Josefa Elisabeth von Batthyány-Strattmann
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Mononym
* Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke
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von Batthyány
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History
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21 September 1992, Vienna), a daughter of László Batthyány-Strattmann
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.
References
* Material from external links below
External links
Paul Weingarten
Biography
(in German)
Paul Weingarten
(Geni.com
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Paul Weingarten, Jr.
Paul Weingarten
1886 births
1948 deaths
Musicians from Brno
People from the Margraviate of Moravia
Austrian Christians
20th-century Austrian musicians
20th-century Austrian male musicians
20th-century classical pianists
20th-century Austrian educators
Austrian classical pianists
Male classical pianists
Piano pedagogues
Austrian music educators
Czech musicians
University of Vienna alumni
Emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss
Austrian expatriates in Japan
Burials at the Vienna Central Cemetery
20th-century Japanese male musicians
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