| Biography | Paul Weingarten, Ph.D. (April 20, 1886, City of Brünn, Margravial Moravia, Imp.&R. Austria April 11, 1948, Vienna, Second Republic of Austria) was a Moravia-born pianist and music teacher.
He studied Music History at the University of Vienna, where he obtained a Ph.D. in 1910.
He studied music at the Vienna Conservatory. Among his teachers were Emil von Sauer (piano), Robert Fuchs (theory), Guido Adler.
After traveling through Europe as a concert pianist, he became a piano teacher at the Vienna Music Academy. On his return to Austria, in March 1938, from a concert tour in Japan, German troops were advancing in Austria. He taught at the Tokyo Ongaku Gakko [ja], Shitaya Dist., Tokyo Metropolis. He left Austria to return in 1945 to give a piano masterclass at the Vienna Academy of Music.
He was married with Anna Maria Josefa Elisabeth von Batthyány-Strattmann[1] (March 23, 1909, Kittsee September 21, 1992, Vienna), a daughter of László Batthyány-Strattmann. |