Leonid Brumberg

Leonid Yefimovich Brumberg was a Soviet and Austrian pianist and music teacher, born on 30 April 1925 in Rostov-on-Don, in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. He was the son of the musicologist and Muzgiz editor Yefim Veniaminovich Brumberg.

Brumberg studied and worked in Moscow, where he became an assistant in the class of Heinrich Neuhaus at the Moscow Conservatory. He later taught at the Gnessin Institute, establishing himself as an important pianist and pedagogue in Soviet musical life.

He was the first performer of a number of works by Alfred Schnittke, notably the Piano Concerto of 1960. This association connected him with the performance of significant contemporary Soviet repertoire.

In 1981 he emigrated from the USSR and settled in Vienna, Austria. There he taught at the Institute of Music and continued his career in the Austrian musical environment.

Leonid Brumberg died on 20 August 2010 in Vienna. His life linked Soviet and Austrian musical culture through his work as a pianist and teacher.