Anna Hirzel-Langenhan (20 August 1874 – 15 December 1951) was a Swiss pianist and music educator.

Life

Born in Lachen, Hirzel-Langenhan studied at the

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and in Vienna with

Theodor Leschetizky Theodor Leschetizky (sometimes spelled Leschetitzky; ; 22 June 1830 – 14 November 1915) was a Polish pianist, professor, and composer active in Austria-Hungary. He was born in Landshut in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, then a crown land ...

and Anna Jessipowa. From 1898 she worked in Munich, after she and her husband Richard Langenhan, who accepted a position as the second

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of the

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. (next to

Felix Weingartner Paul Felix Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg (2 June 1863 – 7 May 1942) was an Austrian Conducting, conductor, composer and pianist. Life and career Weingartner was born in Zadar, Zara, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Dalmatia, Austrian Empire (now ...

), had settled there. Both made their debut in the Kaimkonzert on 5 October 1898 with Piano Concerto No. 1 by Tchaikovsky. In addition to her work as a soloist, she frequently performed with members of the Kaimorchester in chamber music evenings and achieved a respected position in Munich's musical life. Therefore, when her husband died unexpectedly in March 1900, she remained there and began to give piano lessons more and more. During her intensive teaching activities she looked after an international circle of students, including Edith Picht-Axenfeld, Hermann Abendroth, Erich Doflein,

Werner Egk Werner Egk (, 17 May 1901 – 10 July 1983), born Werner Joseph Mayer, was a German composer. Early career He was born in the Swabian town of Auchsesheim, today part of Donauwörth, Germany. His family, of Catholic peasant stock, moved to Augsb ...

Hans Leygraf Hans Leygraf (7 September 1920 – 12 February 2011) was a Swedish pianist, music educator, conductor and composer. Life Born in Stockholm, Leygraf studied piano with in Stockholm and Anna Hirzel-Langenhan in Switzerland. He was one of Swede ...

and Maria Landes-Hindemith and Clara Haskil and Renata Borgatti A highlight of her concert activity was the performance of all violin sonatas by

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire ...

with

Eugène Ysaÿe Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe (; 16 July 185812 May 1931) was a Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tsar". Early years Born in Liège, Ysaÿe began ...

in March 1903. In 1911 she almost completely ended her concert activity because of severe gout. From 1926, Hirzel-Langenhan lived in

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and from 1934 in Schloss Berg in the Swiss

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, where she taught the pianist André Casanova, who later became famous. Her estate is kept in the

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. Hirzel-Langenhan died in

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at the age of 77.

Publications

* ''Greifen und Begreifen. Ein Weg zur Anschlagskultur.''''Greifen und Begreifen : ein Weg zur Anschlagskultur''
on WorldCat Editor: Pina Pozzi and Franzpeter Goebels. Mit einem Geleitwort von Renata Borgatti. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel / Basel / Paris / London / New York 1963 * ''Greifen und Begreifen.'' Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel mong others2008 (10th ed.),

References

External links

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Anna Hirzel-Langenhan Estate

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hirzel-Langenhan, Anna Swiss classical pianists Swiss women pianists Women classical pianists Swiss music educators Swiss women music educators 20th-century Swiss women educators 20th-century Swiss educators 1874 births 1951 deaths People from the canton of Schwyz