Wolfgang Heisig
Wolfgang Heisig (born in 1952) is a German pianist and composer who is known for his contemporary application of piano rolls. Life and career Born in Zwickau, Heisig studied piano and composition at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden between 1972 and 1978. Since 1980 he has composed short aphoristic piano pieces, which form the collection ''Klaviertöne''. He also worked for the , on whose debut album he participated in 1989. Furthermore, he was involved in the composition of the film music for the feature film '. Since 1990, Heisig has been intensively engaged with the music of the composer Conlon Nancarrow, who often punched his compositions into paper rolls that were played with player pianos. Since Nancarrow was hardly interested in the duplication and distribution of these rolls, Heisig not only acquired a to interpret the works through nuanced pedalling and actuation of dynamic and tempo levers. He also had a PC-controlled punching machine built t ...
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