Ingeborg Finke-Siegmund

Ingeborg Finke-Siegmund, born Siegmund, was a German pianist and piano teacher.

Life

Finke-Siegmund was born in 1919 into a large family of the pastor and later Dresden superintendent Ringulf Siegmund in Bohemian city of Aš. After the National Socialist takeover, her father was dismissed and arrested.
At the age of sixteen she entered the conservatory. She first studied with Walter Schaufuß-Bonini. Later she continued her training with Conrad Hansen, Franz Langer and Hugo Steurer. She gave her first solo recital in Dresden in 1942. She was active as a soloist until 1952. After that, she worked at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. Her students included among others Peter Rösel, Sonnhild Fiebach, Christina Haupt, Ralf-Carsten Brömsel, Steffen Leißner, Christian Kluttig, Hans-Peter Richter and Hartmut Haenchen.
At Deutscher Verlag für Musik she co-edited the collection of contemporary compositions in piano lessons Für junge Pianisten.
She was married to the Dresden pianist, composer, piano pedagogue and music critic Hermann Werner Finke.