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Peter Bernhard Feuchtwanger (26 June 1930 – 18 June 2016)Peter Feuchtwanger, piano teacher – obituary"
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was a German pianist, composer, and teacher. He lived for many years in London.


Life and work

Feuchtwanger was born in Munich as the son of a local bank director, Theodore Feuchtwanger (1858–1956). During World War II, the family fled to Haifa. Peter Feuchtwanger was a self-taught (?) pianist who later developed exercises to help pianists learn a natural effortless technique and also help pianists who have physical problems due to their approach to playing. Feuchtwanger's piano teachers included
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, who practiced on her concert tours in England with him, and the contralto
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and . He broke early from a career as a pianist to devote himself to composition and music education. He was a follower of Zen and dealt with music and philosophy from India and the Arab world. His Variation on an Eastern Folk Tune (Books 1 and 2) won first prize at the Viotti International Music Competition in 1959. He worked extensively with the American pianist and composer Carter Larsen the Argentine pianist
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's instructors. He also helped
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for the Bath International Music Festival. It was first performed by Menuhin and
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. In 2003, with Professor Günter Reinhold, he founded the International Academy of Music Education in Karlsruhe. He was Visiting Professor at the
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in Surrey and at the
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. He held part-time professorships at conservatoriums in Karlsruhe and Basel. From 1967, he gave Master Classes throughout the world. He developed a novel technique of piano playing, which led to the publication of special piano exercises.Peter Feuchtwanger, Manfred Seewan, Stefan Blido
(2014). ''Piano Exercises for Curing Playing Disorders and for Acquiring a Functional and Natural Approach to Piano Playing''. Wertheim am Main, Germany: Stefan Blido.
He was the vice president of the (London West). Feuchtwanger died in his apartment in London, aged 85, survived by his partner, the artist Michael Garady. He was buried at the
Brompton Cemetery Brompton Cemetery (originally the West of London and Westminster Cemetery) is since 1852 the first (and only) London cemetery to be Crown Estate, Crown property, managed by The Royal Parks, in West Brompton in the Royal Borough of Kensington a ...
.


References


External links


Peter Feuchtwanger fan site


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Peter Feuchtwanger 1939–2016 – Pianist, Composer, Pedagogue
Frances Wilson, 18 June 2016
EPTA-UK
European Piano Teachers Association, United Kingdom
London ArtsFest
Peter Feuchtwanger – Founding Director, Vice Chairman 4 April 2000 – 17 June 2016

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