Leo Kestenberg
German-Israeli pianist, music educator, and cultural politician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Leo Kestenberg (27 November 1882 – 13 January 1962) was a German-Israeli classical pianist, music educator, and cultural politician. Working for the government in Prussia from 1918, he began a large-scale reform of music education (Kestenberg-Reform) which aimed to teach music to all, beginning with small children, and including the education of their teachers.[1] In exile in Prague, he was instrumental in forming the and administrating the first international organization for music education, which became ISME.[2] Fleeing from Nazi Germany further to Mandatory Palestine, he founded a seminary for music teachers and privately taught pianists such as Menahem Pressler and Alexis Weissenberg.