Name Paul Baumgartner | Role Pianist | |
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Education Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Munchen Albums Pablo Casals interpreta Bach II: 2 sonatas para cello y piano Similar People Pablo Casals, Johann Sebastian Bach, Arie Vardi, Eduard Steuermann, Edwin Fischer | ||
Paul baumgartner plays brahms intermezzo op 117 no 2
Paul Baumgartner (21 July 1903 – 19 October 1976) was a Swiss pianist.
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- Paul baumgartner plays brahms intermezzo op 117 no 2
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Born in Altstätten, Switzerland, he studied piano and composition with Walter Braunfels in the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and with Eduard Erdmann in Köln where he subsequently taught. Fleeing from the rise of the Nazis he took up residence in Basel, in Switzerland again, where he taught in the conservatory.
A fine pianist, he was one of the musicians who rallied around the cellist Casals and played in the first Casals festival. He recorded the Bach sonatas for viola da gamba with Casals.
However, he is nowadays mainly remembered as a teacher, numbering among his pupils Alfred Brendel, Karl Engel, Arie Vardi, Peter Efler and the conductor Günter Wand. In 1962 he was awarded the Kunstpreis der Stadt St. Gallen. He died, in 1976, in Locarno, Switzerland.
At the age of 12, Paul Baumgartner wrote The Seven Searchers and other poems.