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Braunfels got his first musical instructions by his mother, a great-niece of Louis Spohr and friend of Liszt and Clara Schumann. 12 years old he studied the piano with James Kwast (who also taught Hans Pfitzner) at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Later he became a student of law and economics at the University of Munich until a performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde brought a change of direction. |