Artist Info: Andre Asriel

André Asriel (* 22. February 1922 in Vienna) is an Austrian-German composer.

Asriel first attended the Akademisches Gymnasium and then the Bundesgymnasium IX (Wasagymnasium) in Vienna, where the later Oscar-winner and composer Ernest Gold was his classmate. Here he simultaneously pursued musical studies and studied piano with Grete Hinterhofer and theory with Richard Stöhr at the State Academy of Music in Vienna from 1936 to 1938. He was extraordinarily gifted and an outstanding pianist even at a young age. [read more...]