Heinrich Grünfeld

Heinrich Grünfeld (21 April 1855, Prague – 26 August 1931, Berlin) was a Bohemian-Austrian violoncellist; a brother of Alfred Grünfeld.

He was educated at the Prague Conservatory. In 1876 he went to Berlin and for eight years taught at the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst. In conjunction with Xaver Scharwenka and Gustav Holländer (later with Émile Sauret, Max Pauer, and Florian Zajic), he arranged trio soirées which became very popular. In 1866 Grünfeld was appointed court violoncellist to King William of Prussia.

Grünfeld can be heard in an arrangement of Mendelssohn's Song Without Words op. 53, no. 2, together with violinist Alfred Wittenberg and pianist Moritz Mayer-Mahr, on acoustic Parlophon P 1736-I. These three artists toured widely as members of an established piano trio.^[1]

References

^ Lengowski, Sara Janina, biographical sketch of Moritz Mayer-Mahr, University of Hamburg Music Research Institute, accessed December 13, 2010

Bibliography

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Isidore Singer & Joseph Sohn (1901–1906). "GRÜNFELD, HEINRICH". Jewish Encyclopedia. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=463&letter=G.

- Riemann, Musik-Lexikon;
- Baker, Biog. Dict. of Music and Musicians

Persondata
Name	Grünfeld, Heinrich
Alternative names
Short description	Austrian cellist and composer
Date of birth	21 April 1855
Place of birth	Prague
Date of death	26 August 1931
Place of death	Berlin