'''Erich Flinsch''' (14 July 1905 – 28 December 1990) was a German pianist and university lecturer. He was a grand-disciple of Franz Liszt (1811-1886) and student and assistant of the pianist, composer and musicologist Emil von Sauer (1862–1942) in Vienna.
== Life and career == Born in Frankfurt am Main, Flinsch was the successor of Walther Davisson (1885–1973) one of the three board members of the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and of the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main, together with Gustav Lenzewski<ref>[https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Lenzewski,_Gustav Gustav Lenzewski] on IMLSP</ref> (1896–1988) and Helmut Walcha (1907–1991).
In this period, in July 1956, he was together with the physician and town councillor {{Ill|Max Flesch-Thebesius|de}} (1889–1983) founder of the "Robert-Schumann-Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main" in der Villa Bonn.<ref>„Bei mir ist Schumanns Erbe in guten Händen.“ In ''Frankfurter Neue Presse'', 8 February 2006. ([https://www.schumann-portal.de/id-50-jahre-r-schumann-ges-frankfurt-022006.html Online auf schumann-portal.de])</ref><ref>[http://www.robert-schumann-gesellschaft-frankfurt.de/ Robert-Schumann-Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main e. V.] auf: robert-schumann-gesellschaft-frankfurt.de</ref>
Flinsch died in Schneidhain at age 85.
== Work == * Erich Flinsch: ''Ludwig Schuncke, Schumann's Freund und Mitbegründer der Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.'' In ''Neue Zeitschrift für Musik'' 121 (1960), {{pp.|199–203}}.
== Students == * Herbie Hess * Alois Ickstadt * Robert Leonardy * Michael Ponti
== Further reading == * Otto Renkhoff: ''Nassauische Biographie. Kurzbiographien aus 13 Jahrhunderten.''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=KfUZAAAAIAAJ ''Nassauische Biographie. Kurzbiographien aus 13 Jahrhunderten''] on Google books</ref> 2nd, completely revised and extended edition. Historische Kommission für Nassau, Wiesbaden 1992, {{ISBN|3-922244-90-4}}, {{p.|197}}.
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