Background
Paul Hamburger was born in Vienna in 1920, and studied at the Vienna State Academy before emigrating to England in 1939.
Paul Hamburger was born in Vienna in 1920, and studied at the Vienna State Academy before emigrating to England in 1939.
Royal College of Music.
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. He has performed both in Britain and abroad, including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, 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 Walküre with Birgit Nilsson.
Foreign twelve years, he held the post of official accompanist at the British Broadcasting Corporation, and was later the British Broadcasting Corporation producer responsible for the ‘Artists of the Younger Generation’ series. Hamburger taught singers and accompanists at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, and gave masterclasses and annual seminars in England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Sweden and Finland.
His literary works include an edition of Mozart Lieder (Oxford University Press), contributions to books on Mozart songs, Mahler’s Wunderhorn songs, Chopin and Britten, and translations, notably of Bruno Walter and Alfred Brendel.
