Hans Schimmerling

Hans Schimmerling (born Hanus Aldo Schimmerling; 5 September 1900 – 19 October 1967) was a Czech-American pianist, composer, teacher, musicologist and writer. Life and education Schimmerling was born on 5 September 1900 in Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic). He was born to Hugo Schimmerling, a dentist, and Eugenie (Jennie) Grossman. Both parents fell victims to the Holocaust in 1944. Hans Schimmerling grew up speaking both Slovak and German, later learning Italian and English. He started to study the piano at age six, adding the cello at age eleven and music theory at fourteen. He gave his first public recital at thirteen and was teaching at seventeen. He received degrees in both law and music from the University of Vienna and the Conservatory of Vienna respectively, and later graduated from the Composers and Conductors Department of the Academy of Music in Prague. Personal life and death Schimmerling married his wife, Mathylda, in 1932 and lived in Vienna from 1928 to 1938. He went into the hospital in New York City in 1967 for a minor operation and unexpectedly died on 19 October 1967, at the age of 67. Work Immediately after graduation, Schimmerling became t