Heinrich Schmidt

Austrian piano/harpsichord/glockenspiel/organ player, répétiteur, conductor and composer. Born 29 May 1904 in Wöllersdorf-Steinabrückl, Austria (then Austria-Hungary) - Died 29 November 1988 in Vienna, Austria. From 1940-46 Schmidt acted as a solo coach and principal tutor at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, and from 1943 was the principal tutor for the Salzburger Festspiele. In 1946, he became an assistant of Wilhelm Furtwängler at the Wiener Staatsoper. Schmidt was engaged at La Scala in Milano in 1949-55, while in 1955-72 he was principal tutor at the Staatsoper in Vienna.