Bruno Zwintscher (15 May 1838 – 4 March 1905) was a German piano educator.

Life

Born in Ziegenhain (now part of Nossen) in the Kingdom of Saxony, Zwintscher attended the Dresdener Kreuzschule before he became a student of Louis Plaidy at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig in 1856. From 1875 to 1896, Zwintscher himself worked as a piano teacher at this conservatory. His students there included Anna Diller Starbuck.^[1] Afterwards he worked as a private teacher in Dresden. His Klavier-Technik is an extension of Plaidy's work. He also published Musikalische Verzierungen.

Otto, born from Zwintscher's marriage to Frieda, had three sons: the philologist Arthur (1867–1937), the painter Oskar (1870–1916) and the pianist Rudolf (1871–1946).

Zwintscher died in Oberlößnitz [de] near Radebeul at the age of 64.

Work

• Klavier-Technik, 7 Hefte, Leipzig ohne Jahresangabe (published in English by C.H. Porter as Technical Exercises Systematically).^[2]
• Musikalische Verzierungen: Praktische Übungen und theoretische Erläuterungen nebst einen Anhang über den Metronom.^[3] Leipzig 1895.
• Clavier-Technik systematisch geordnet zum Gebrauch bei seinem Unterricht.^[4] (1900)

Literatur

• Wilibald Gurlitt, Carl Dahlhaus (1961). Riemann Musik-Lexikon. In three volumes and two supplementary ones. Vol. 2. Personenteil L–Z (12. completely reworked ed.). Mainz: B. Schotts-Söhne. p. 976.