Bruno Zwintscher
Bruno Zwintscher was a German piano educator.
Life
Born in Ziegenhain 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. 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, the painter Oskar and the pianist Rudolf.
Zwintscher died in near Radebeul at the age of 64.