Anna Hirzel-Langenhan (20 August 1874 – 15 December 1951) was a Swiss pianist and music educator.
Born in Lachen, Hirzel-Langenhan studied at the Zurich University of the Arts and in Vienna with Theodor Leschetizky and Anna Jessipowa.
Therefore, when her husband died unexpectedly in March 1900, she remained there and began to give piano lessons more and more.
During her intensive teaching activities she looked after an international circle of students, including Edith Picht-Axenfeld, Hermann Abendroth, Erich Doflein,[1] Werner Egk,[2] Hans Leygraf and Maria Landes-Hindemith and Clara Haskil and Renata Borgatti [3] A highlight of her concert activity was the performance of all violin sonatas by Beethoven with Eugène Ysaÿe in March 1903.
From 1926, Hirzel-Langenhan lived in Lugano and from 1934 in Schloss Berg in the Swiss canton of Thurgau, where she taught the pianist André Casanova, who later became famous.