Alexander Jenner

Austrian pianist (* 04 April 1929 in Vienna, Austria). He studied from 1945 on for almost ten years at the "Musikakademie" in Vienna. During the first three years with Paul Weingarten, and the years after with Bruno Seidlhofer and Richard Hauser. In 1949, he won the "Bösendorfer-Preisflügel", the grand piano awarded by the famous Viennese piano manufacturer to the best student of that year graduating from the Vienna State Academy of Music. In 1957 he participated the Rio de Janeiro Contest for Pianists, in which he won first prize by unanimous decision of the jury, beating Augustin Anievas, Michael Voskresensky, and Nelson Freire. He was the first Austrian pianist to perform Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F (February 24, 1951) and he gave the first performance of Strawinsky's 'Petrouchka for Piano Solo'. As early as 1951 he gave the first performance of the 12 tone compositions of Hanns Jelinek. In 1969, at the age of 40, Alexander Jenner became a professor at the "Wiener Musikhochschule".