Bruno Zwintscher

Bruno Zwintscher (1888)

Bruno Zwintscher (15 May 1838 – 4 March 1905) was a German piano educator.

Life[]

Born in Ziegenhain near Nossen, Zwintscher attended the Dresdener Kreuzschule before he became a student of Louis Plaidy at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig in 1856. From 1875 to 1896, Zwintscher himself worked as a piano teacher at this conservatory. 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 (1871–1946).

Zwintscher died in  [de] 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).^[1]
• Musikalische Verzierungen: Praktische Übungen und theoretische Erläuterungen nebst einen Anhang über den Metronom.^[2] Leipzig 1895.
• Clavier-Technik systematisch geordnet zum Gebrauch bei seinem Unterricht.^[3] (1900)

Literatur[]

• Wilibald Gurlitt, Carl Dahlhaus (1961). Riemann Musik-Lexikon. In three volumes and two supplementary ones. 2. Personenteil L–Z (12. completely reworked ed.). Mainz: B. Schotts-Söhne. p. 976.

References[]

External links[]

• Literature by and about Bruno Zwintscher in the German National Library catalogue
• Leipzig Lexikon. "Bruno Zwintscher (Kurzbiografie)" (in German). Retrieved 11 July 2020.