Paul Weingarten (20 April 1886 in City of

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, Moravia, Austria – 11 April 1948 in

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, Austria) was a

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-born

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and music teacher. He studied Music History at the

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, where he obtained a

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in 1910. He studied music at the Vienna Conservatory. Among his teachers were

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. After traveling through Europe as a concert pianist, he became a piano teacher at the

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. On his return to Austria, in March 1938, from a concert tour in

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, German troops were advancing in Austria. He taught at the ,

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Dist.,

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. He left Austria to return in 1945 to give a piano

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at the Vienna Academy of Music.

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keyboardist Joe (Josef) Zawinul reports he was taught by Weingarten at the Vienna Conservatory in 1939 before Weingarten "had to leave." Grave Weingarten Paul

He was married with Anna Maria Josefa Elisabeth von Batthyány-Strattmannvon Batthyány
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21 September 1992, Vienna), a daughter of

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(in German) 1886 births 1948 deaths Musicians from Brno Musicians from the Margraviate of Moravia Austrian Christians 20th-century Austrian musicians 20th-century Austrian male musicians 20th-century classical pianists 20th-century Austrian educators Austrian classical pianists Austrian male classical pianists Piano educators Austrian music educators Czech musicians University of Vienna alumni Emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss Austrian expatriates in Japan Burials at the Vienna Central Cemetery 20th-century Japanese male musicians {{Japan-musician-stub