Franz Reizenstein

Composer and pianist, born in Nuremberg, SC Germany. He studied under Paul Hindemith, and in 1934 moved to England, where he was a pupil of Vaughan Williams. Among his compositions are cello, piano, and violin concertos, the cantata Voices by Night, two radio operas, and chamber and piano music.

Franz Reizenstein was a German-born British composer and concert-pianist (1911-October 15, 1968).

Although he grew up in Germany, born in Nuremberg and studying under Paul Hindemith at the Berlin Hochschule fur Musik, he emigrated to England in 1934 to flee the rising Nazism. Once in England, he furthered his studies under Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, and then became a professor at the Royal Northern College of Music (then the Royal Academy of Music) in Manchester.

He died relatively young, but left behind him a prodigious output and an outstanding reputation.