Walter Hautzig is a pianist born September 28, 1921, in Vienna

Vienna

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Austria

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Biography

Hautzig studied under Mieczysław Munz. He has taught master classes to hundreds of students all around the world. He has done tours in Japan over 30 times and has performed for President Jimmy Carter. He was also close friends with Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international...

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He is the widower of Esther Rudomin

Esther Hautzig

Esther Hautzig was an American writer, best known for her award-winning book The Endless Steppe .She was born in Vilna, Poland . Her childhood was interrupted by the beginning of World War II and the conquest in 1941 of eastern Poland by Soviet troops...

, and he is the father of David Hautzig and Deborah Hautzig

Deborah Hautzig

Deborah Hautzig is the author of several children's books, including the Little Witch series.- Biography :She is the daughter of Walter Hautzig and Esther Hautzig. She went to The Chapin School in New York....

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Pupils

• Martin Berkofsky
  Martin Berkofsky
  Martin Berkofsky is an American classical pianist known primarily for his interpretations of music by Franz Liszt and Alan Hovhaness. He has performed extensively throughout Europe as well as in Turkey and Armenia....
  
  
• Yaron Kohlberg
  Yaron Kohlberg
  Yaron Kohlberg, born in Jerusalem in 1983, is an Israeli pianist. He is the winner of prestigious international prizes and performs frequently in Israel and abroad....
  
  
• Ananda Sukarlan
  Ananda Sukarlan
  -Background:He is the son of Sukarlan and Poppy Kumudastuti. He started his music lessons at the age of 5 from his older sister, Martani Widjajanti. After graduating from Kolese Kanisius in 1986, he continued to study in University of Hartford in Connecticut, under a scholarship from Petrof...
  
  
• Dr. Lynn Rice-See
• Dr. Andrew Cooperstock
• Alan Sternfield
• Robin Zemp
• Dr. Barry Goldsmith
• Dr. Daniel Paul Horn

Further reading

• Rice-See, Lynn. The Piano Teaching of Walter Hautzig with 613 Examples from the Works of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Chopin, Edwin Mellen Press, 2008 ISBN 0773449817

External links

• http://www.forward.com/articles/12325/
• http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Hautzig-Walter.htm
• http://www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/IPAM/IPAMhautzig.html