| Biography | Paul Baumgartner was a Swiss pianist. 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.
He was one of the musicians who rallied around the cellist Casals and played in the first Casals festival. He was also a teacher, having trained pupils including Alfred Brendel, Karl Engel, Arie Vardi, Peter Efler and the conductor Günter Wand. |