Paul Hamburger

Paul Hamburger ( born September 3, 1920 in Vienna, † April 11 2004 in London) was an Austrian pianist, awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art and founder of the Mozart Quartet.

Life

Paul Hamburger studied from 1935 to 1938 at the State Academy in Vienna before emigrating to London in 1938. There he was able to study at the Royal College of Music with a scholarship from the British Council. During the Second World War, he was like many other German interned on the Isle of Man. In 1948 he lived with his wife, the singer Esther Salaman, a tour through South Africa. Recordings of his concerts were in III. Program broadcast by the BBC. In 1952 he entered the studio of Benjamin Britten. With the composer and conductor Peter Gellhorn, he worked on a summer academy. Besides his work as a pianist, he was also active as a musicologist and was a writer for The Music Survey and The Music Revue. He worked as a teacher at the Guildhall School of Music and devoted himself to the promotion of young artists.

Hamburger died at the age of 84 years in London.