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Franz Reizenstein. Franz Theodor Reizenstein (7 June 1911 – 15 October 1968) was a German-born British composer and concert pianist. He left Germany for sanctuary in Britain in 1934 and went on to have his teaching and performing career there. As a composer, he successfully blended the equally strong but very different influences of his ...
Franz Theodor Reizenstein was a German-born British composer and concert pianist. This site is the official archive of all the works from Franz Reizenstein Home/Works Film Scores Biography Manuscripts Contact
Franz, just 23 when he arrived, had already enjoyed some professional success. The son of Albert Reizenstein, a Nuremberg doctor, and Lina Kohn, his prodigious musical gifts (he wrote his first piece at the age of five) were nurtured by a close and artistic family, and cultivated at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, where he studied composition with Paul Hindemith and piano with Leonid Kreutzer.
Franz Theodor Reizenstein was born on 7th June 1911 to an established, Jewish family living in Nuremberg, for whom music and the arts played an important role, and who were well integrated into the local community. The family counted professionals, scientists, bankers, artists, and musicians among its members, and both of his parents played the ...
Reizenstein contributed the Concerto Popolare ("A Piano Concerto to end all Piano Concertos") to Gerard Hoffnung's first music festival in 1956. Hoffnung's f...
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Feb 16, 2014 · Franz Reizenstein: Violin Concerto Op. 31 (1954). Conducted by Walter Susskind. BBC Symphony Orchestra. Max Rostal, violin.
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Franz Theodor Reizensten | Royal College of Music. Composer and pianist; born 7 June 1911, Nuremberg, Germany, died, 15 October 1968, London. Born to Jewish parents, Reizenstein studied piano with Leonid Kreutzer and composition with Paul Hindemith in Berlin between 1930 and 1934. In 1934, at the age of twenty-three, he emigrated to England to ...
