Paul Hamburger was a British pianist, accompanist, chamber musician, and scholar. Paul Hamburger was born in Vienna in 1920, and studied at the Vienna State Academy before emigrating to England in 1939. In 1941, he received a scholarship to attend the Royal College of Music, London, studying with Frank Merrick, Gordon Jacob, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and he obtained his ARCM. From 1945, he started on a career as an accompanist, chamber musician and teacher, and has been associated in concerts and on disc with some of today?s most distinguished singers and instrumentalists, including Dame Janet Baker, Elisabeth S�derstr�m, Max Rostal and Pierre Fournier. He has performed both in Britain and abroad, including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, France and Belgium. Hamburger worked as coach for the English Chamber Group, preparing for the television performance of Britten?s Turn of the Screw and touring with the company. He was also coach at Glyndebourne Opera, working on Fidelio, Alceste, The Rake?s Progress, Arlecchino, many Rossini and all the Mozart operas. He coached the singers in Eric Leinsdorf?s recording of Die Walk�re with Birgit Nilsson. 

September 3rd, 1920 in Vienna  /  Died:   Apr 11th, 2004