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Günter Ludwig
Günter Ludwig (born 1931) is a German pianist. Life and career Born in Großkrotzenburg, Ludwig attended the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt. He then studied piano with August Leopolder and Marguerite Long and conducting with Kurt Thomas. He achieved his first successes by participating in international competitions, winning third prizes at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in 1954 and 1955. During his tours through Europe, America and Asia, he played in orchestral concerts with conductors such as István Kertész, Georg Solti, Horst Stein and Günter Wand and in chamber music formations with performers such as Arthur Grumiaux, Nathan Milstein, János Starker, Henryk Szeryng and the Amadeus Quartet. Ludwig was professor of piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and visiting professor at Indiana University Bloomington. His master students include Ulrich Windfuhr, Udo Schneberger, Alfredo Perl, Sung-Hee Kim-Wüst, Friedrich Höricke, Raymun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Großkrotzenburg
Großkrotzenburg is a municipality in the Main-Kinzig district, in Hesse, Germany. It has a population of around 7,500. The town is mainly known for its swimming lake and its coal-fired power station. Geography Location Großkrotzenburg is located in the extreme southwest of the Main-Kinzig district, in the southeast of Hesse, bordering on Bavaria. It lies on the right bank of the river Main. Part of the municipal territory is covered by the ', a system of lakes created by mining and (gravel) quarrying that stretches across the Hessian-Bavarian border and is named after the town Kahl am Main. Neighbouring communities Großkrotzenburg borders on (from the north, clockwise) Hanau, Kahl am Main Kahl am Main (officially ''Kahl a. Main'') is a community in the Aschaffenburg district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany. It has around 7,500 inhabitants. Geography Location Kahl am Mai ... (in ( Aschaffenburg district), and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiana University
Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington) is the flagship campus of Indiana University. The Bloomington campus is home to numerous premier Indiana University schools, including the College of Arts and Sciences, the Jacobs School of Music, an extension of the Indiana University School of Medicine, the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, which includes the former School of Library and Information Science (now Department of Library and Information Science), School of Optometry, the O'Neil School of Public and Environmental Affairs, the Maurer School of Law, the School of Education, and the Kelley School of Business. *Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), a partnership between Indiana University and Purdue Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Edition
Universal Edition (UE) is a classical music publishing firm. Founded in 1901 in Vienna, they originally intended to provide the core classical works and educational works to the Austrian market (which had until then been dominated by Leipzig-based publishers). The firm soon expanded to become one of the most important publishers of modern music. History In 1904, UE acquired Aibl publishers, and so acquired the rights to works by Richard Strauss, Max Reger, and other composers, but it was the arrival of Emil Hertzka as managing director in 1907 (who remained until his death in 1932) which really pushed the firm towards new music. Under Hertzka, UE signed contracts with a number of important contemporary composers, including Béla Bartók and Frederick Delius in 1908; Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg in 1909 (Mahler's '' Symphony No. 8'' was the first work UE acquired an original copyright to); Anton Webern and Alexander von Zemlinsky in 1910; Karol Szymanowski in 1912; Leoš J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schott Music
Schott Music () is one of the oldest German music publishers. It is also one of the largest music publishing houses in Europe, and is the second oldest music publisher after Breitkopf & Härtel. The company headquarters of Schott Music were founded by Bernhard Schott in Mainz in 1770. Schott Music is one of the world's leading music publishers. It represents many important composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, and its publishing catalogue contains some 31,000 titles on sale and over 10,000 titles on hire. The repertoire ranges from complete editions, stage and concert works to general educational literature, fine sheet music editions and multimedia products. In addition to the publishing houses of Panton, Ars-Viva, Ernst Eulenburg, Fürstner, Cranz, Atlantis Musikbuch and Hohner-Verlag, the Schott group also includes two recording labels, Wergo (for new music) and Intuition (for Jazz), as well as eight specialist magazines. The Schott Music group also includes the printing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz-Josef Birk
Franz-Josef Birk (born 1949) is a German classical pianist and music producer. Life Born in Düsseldorf, Birk was admitted to the piano class of Bernhard Roderburg at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in his native town in 1961 after two years of private piano lessons. In 1963, he made his public debut with piano music by Béla Bartók and attracted the attention of the press with "his seventh sense for agogical nuance, a skill that is almost impossible to learn" (''Rheinische Post''). In the same year he won his first piano competition at the Jugend musiziert in Düsseldorf with piano music by Beethoven, which was followed by further prizes until 1965 in Essen, Marl and Munich with works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Chatschaturian. Even in these young years, he played Mozart's Sonata in A major, KV 331, in the Solingen Stadthalle with "the kind of emotional forcefulness that no longer made Mozart feel like a classic, but rather welcomed him as a contemporary" (''Solinger Tageb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Cernota
Johannes Cernota (born 16 March 1955) is a German pianist, composer and artist. Life Born in Visbek, Lower Saxony, Cernota received his first piano lessons at the age of five and studied at the Musikhochschule Köln and at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen from 1974 to 1982 with Luciano Ortis, Kurt Seibert (pianist), Kurt Seibert and Günter Ludwig, among others. From 1980 to 1995, he held several teaching posts for piano at the universities of Bremen and Oldenburg. From 1982 to 1983, he was also répétiteur at the Goethe Theatre in Bremen. Cernota has released several recordings as a composer and concert pianist and has played in several radio and television recordings. He is also active as a visual artist with performance art, performances, sound art, painting and sculptures. His recordings of works by Erik Satie and, together with the cellist Thomas Beckmann, of works by Charlie Chaplin are well known. The corresponding CD entitled ''Oh! That Cello'' was awarded the "Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florian Wiek
Born in 1972, Florian Wiek was scholarship-holder of Villa Musica in Mainz from 1994 to 1997 where he performed chamber music with leading German musicians like Thomas Brandis, Ida Bieler, Martin Ostertag, Wolfgang Gaag and Rainer Moog. Together with his partner Justus Grimm, Wiek was elected for the 44th and 46th 'Bundesauswahl junger Künstler' in Germany and played a large number of sonata recitals. In 2001 Wiek played Schumann's Piano Quintet in concert together with the violinist Ivry Gitlis, among others. In October 2004 he became professor for piano and chamber music at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart The State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart is a professional school for musicians and performing artists in Stuttgart, Germany. Founded in 1857, it is one of the oldest schools of its kind in Germany. History The school was f .... Moreover, he had collaborated with his Master Classes in Magister Musicae project. Disc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Rothkopf
Andreas Rothkopf (born 10 October 1955 in Dillingen, Saarland) is a German organist, pianist and music educator. Life After his first piano lessons with his father, Rothkopf studied Catholic church music and music education with Robert Leonardy at the Hochschule für Musik Saar in Saarbrücken from 1972 to 1978. (piano) and Paul Schneider (organ). As a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik Köln (organ with Michael Schneider, piano with Günter Ludwig and conducting with Volker Wangenheim). Supplementary organ studies followed with Marie-Claire Alain. In 1986, he received a professorship for organ at the Hochschule für Musik Saar in Saarbrücken. Rothkopf's concert activities as an organist and pianist have taken him to numerous countries in Europe and Asia. He has also recorded organ works by Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt and Max Reger Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gereon Krahforst
Gereon Krahforst (born 1973) is a German composer, concert organist, pianist, harpsichordist, and church musician. Training Born in Bonn, Krahforst received his first piano lessons at the age of 5; his first organ teachers were John L. Birley (Himmerod Abbey) and Markus Karas from 1987/1990 (Bonn Minster). He studied composition during his school years from 1990 to 1993 (junior studies with Hans Werner Henze and Günter Fork), then after his Abitur (from 1993) composition, piano (instrumental pedagogy) and church music with Clemens Ganz, Henning Frederichs, Günter Ludwig, Johannes Schild and Phillip Langshaw at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. He passed his with a distinction for , after which he studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main Organ (KA) with Daniel Roth (organist), Daniel Roth. He complemented his training with master classes with Marie-Claire Alain, Tomasz Adam Nowak, Jon Laukvik, Wolfgang Seifen, Peter Planyavsky, Guy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrich Leyendecker
Ulrich Leyendecker (29 January 1946 — 29 November 2018) was a German composer of classical music. His output consisted mainly of symphonies, concertos, chamber and instrumental music. Life Leyendecker studied composition with Ingo Schmitt (1962–1965) and Rudolf Petzold (1965–1970), and piano with Günter Ludwig. In 1971 he became a lecturer at the Hamburg Academy for Music and Performing Arts, and in 1976 he was appointed Professor of Composition and Theory at the Hamburg Music and Theatre Hochschule. In 1994, he became Professor of Composition at the State Hochschule for Music and the Performing Arts of Heidelberg-Mannheim. Music Leyendecker's music, although not serial, is largely atonal, but often with subtle hints of tonality. He employed regular time signatures in his pieces, but it sometimes does not sound that way, for he utilized carefully calculated and complex rhythms. His music often contains novel sonic architectures, while still managing to express powerful emo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymund Havenith
Raymund Havenith (17 July 1947 – 15 July 1993) was a German classical pianist. Life Raymund Havenith was born in Aachen into a family of musicians receiving his first lessons from his father Josef Havenith (1919–1978), a church musician and choirmaster. He studied the piano with Günter Ludwig at the Hochschule für Musik Köln (Cologne University of Music). Still studying he won the Mendelssohn Prize in 1970 and graduated with the Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Rachmaninoff in the same year. As a scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes he completed his musical education at the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva. In 1970 Raymund Havenith participated in the "concerts by young artists" series organised by Deutscher Musikrat. In 1975 he made his début in London and two years later he made his first appearance in a festival concert at the Berliner Festspiele with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Subsequent concert tours have taken him to the Near and Far East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Höricke
Friedrich Höricke (born 1963) is a German pianist and composer. Life Born in Cologne, Höricke played his first piano recital in Cologne at the age of eleven. At the age of thirteen he was already accepted as the youngest student in the master class of Günter Ludwig at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. At the same time he attended the Cologne . At the age of 18 he won first prize at the Tomassoni Competition of the Cologne Academy of Music, as well as a prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition. Further training followed at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he was taught by Jorge Bolet, Gary Graffman, Mieczysław Horszowski and Seymour Lipkin. First prize at the Philadelphia Young Artists Competition followed, as well as concert engagements in America, Asia, Western, Central and Eastern Europe. He subsequently released CDs, increasingly with his own compositions for piano, or for piano and orchestra. In 1985, Höricke married the sexologis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
