German-Israeli pianist, music educator, and cultural politician
Leo Kestenberg
Leo Kestenberg at the piano in 1905
Born
(1882-11-27)27 November 1882
Ružomberok, Kingdom of Hungary
Died
13 January 1962(1962-01-13) (aged 79)
Tel Aviv, Israel
Occupations
Classical pianist
Music educator
Cultural politician
Organizations
Musikhochschule Berlin
International Society for Music Education
Leo Kestenberg (27 November 1882 – 13 January 1962) was a German-Israeli classical pianist, music educator, and cultural politician. Working for the government in Prussia from 1918, he began a large-scale reform of music education (Kestenberg-Reform) which aimed to teach music to all, beginning with small children, and including the education of their teachers.[1] In exile in Prague, he was instrumental in forming the and administrating the first international organization for music education, which became ISME.[2] Fleeing from Nazi Germany further to Mandatory Palestine, he founded a seminary for music teachers and privately taught pianists such as Menahem Pressler and Alexis Weissenberg.
^Eschen, Andreas (November 2005). "Der Lehrer der Lehre: Leo Kestenberg / Berliner Symposium untersucht das beispiellose Reformwerk des Musikpädagogen". Neue Musikzeitung (in German). Retrieved 31 August 2021.
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1945, they emigrated to Palestine, where Weissenberg studied under LeoKestenberg and performed Beethoven with the Israel Philharmonic under the direction...
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to 1955 at the Tel Aviv Music Academy, as well as music history with LeoKestenberg. In 1955, he went to the United States, where he studied violin with...
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(1954) Cantata, (Bible: Psalms), SATB (1956) Dedicated to the memory of LeoKestenberg, one of Alotin's teachers Hinneh Ma Tov [Behold, How Good], (Psalm 132)...
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