12 Facts About Edwin Finckel

Edwin A Finckel was an American jazz performer and arranger and a composer of songs and classical music.

Edwin Finckel's father was a patent attorney and both his parents were musical.

All of his five elder siblings received musical training but Edwin Finckel was left to his own devices with regard to music, but his artistic talents won him a scholarship at the Corcoran School of Art.

Edwin Finckel didn't give up his interest in art but he found access to a piano and within a year he had taught himself to play, albeit unconventionally and without the ability to read music.

Edwin Finckel took to jazz although he showed skill as a tennis player while still a teenager.

Edwin Finckel was well regarded for his ability to improvise music and he went on to arrange others and later compose over 200 of his own melodies.

Edwin Finckel was appearing professionally as a teenager and he went on to introduce string instruments into his arrangement for big bands.

Edwin Finckel wrote songs for the 1945 film George White's Scandals The photo illustrated here shows Edwin Finckel posing for a magazine picture where he has been chosen as a representative of the musical "Modern School" in 1947.

Edwin Finckel went into teaching where he led the music department of the private Far Brook School in New Jersey for 39 years.

When Edwin Finckel retired in 1990 his position was taken up by Mr F Allen Artz III.

Edwin Finckel continued to perform jazz and in his forties he wrote classical music.

Edwin Finckel's son David is a professional cellist who performed and recorded his father's composition for piano and cello Of Human Kindness with his wife Wu Han.