Ingeborg Finke-Siegmund

Ingeborg Finke-Siegmund, born Siegmund, (4 December 1919 – 1 January 2012[1]) was a German pianist and piano teacher.

Life

Finke-Siegmund was born in 1919 into a large[2] family of the pastor and later Dresden superintendent Ringulf Siegmund (1889-1969) in Bohemian city of Aš. After the National Socialist takeover, her father was dismissed and arrested.[3]

At the age of sixteen she entered the conservatory.[2] She first studied with Walter Schaufuß-Bonini.[2] Later she continued her training with Conrad Hansen, Franz Langer and Hugo Steurer.[2] 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.[3][2]

At Deutscher Verlag für Musik she co-edited the collection of contemporary compositions in piano lessons Für junge Pianisten.[4]

She was married to the Dresden pianist, composer, piano pedagogue and music critic Hermann Werner Finke (1911-1988).[3]

References
  1. Pianistin Ingeborg Finke gestorben. In Sächsische Zeitung, 7 January 2012, p. 10.
  2. Gerhard Böhm: Die Pianistin Ingeborg Finke-Sigmund wird heute 80. In Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, 4 December 1999, p. 21.
  3. Hartmut Haenchen: Ingeborg Finke-Siegmund zum 90. Geburtstag. In the Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, 4 December 2009, p. 10.
  4. Für junge Pianisten on Stanford Library
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