# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leo-kestenberg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:28:03.763Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leo-kestenberg"
name: "Leo Kestenberg"
slug: "leo-kestenberg"
description: "Leo Kestenberg was a German-Israeli classical pianist, music educator, and cultural politician. Working for the government in Prussia from 1918, he began a large-scale reform of music education (Kestenberg-Reform) which aimed to teach music to all, beginning with small children, and including the education of their teachers. In exile in Prague, he was instrumental in forming the and administrating the first international organization for music education, which became ISME. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and later moved to Mandatory Palestine, where he founded a seminary for music teachers and privately taught pianists such as Menahem Pressler and Alexis Weissenberg."
tagline: "German and Israeli pianist, music educator and cultural politician (1882–1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kestenberg_at_piano_1905.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1882-11-27"
deathDate: "1962-01-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.27
  momentum:             15.05555555555556
  historical:           8.746365333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ليو كيستينبيرج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Kestenberg"
    title: "Leo Kestenberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Kestenberg"
    title: "Leo Kestenberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Kestenberg"
    title: "Leo Kestenberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%95_%D7%A7%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%92"
    title: "ליאו קסטנברג"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Kestenberg"
    title: "Leo Kestenberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE"
    title: "Кестенберг, Лео"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Kestenberg"
    title: "Leo Kestenberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Kestenberg"
    title: "Leo Kestenberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78037"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump