An Austrian pianist. He was also active as a piano instructor, serving as a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan from 1955 to 1958. He studied under Friedemann-Schüler, Ernst Bloch, Friedrich Wührer, and August Göllner. He was a prizewinner at the 1945 Geneva International Competition. In addition to Tokyo University of the Arts, he taught piano at the Vienna State Academy of Music and the Darmstadt Academy of Musical Arts.