Paul Walter Fürst

Paul Walter Fürst (25 April 1926 – 28 February 2013)[1] was an Austrian musician and composer.

In his childhood, he first learned the violin and piano, played in the children's orchestra and took part in various competitions.

He made his first contacts with composing through the director of the grammar school, Kurt Thomas, who taught him the first compositional basics.

[4] Fürst returned to Vienna in 1945 and studied there a year later violin (Willi Boskovsky), piano (Hermann Schwermann), harmony (Joseph Marx) and improvisation at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

In addition, he received commissioned works for the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, the Wiener Festwochen, the Salzburg Festival and the Brucknerfest.