Georg Friedrich Schenck (born 1953) is a German musician.
Schenk was born in
Aachen
Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...
, Germany. Graduating from Hanover Music College (student of Bernhard Ebert), he took masterclasses with
Claudio Arrau, and then was a student of the American pianist
Andre Watts for many years.
In 1986, Schenck was appointed Professor of Piano in the
Robert Schumann Hochschule
The Robert Schumann Hochschule (Robert Schumann University of Music and Media) is a school for music studies at the university level located in Düsseldorf. The University has a student body of some 850 coming from over 40 countries.
Forty-seven f ...
in
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...
. As a performer, Schenck has a wide repertoire. In 1987–88, he recorded the complete
Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...
’s piano sonatas and published recordings of
Hindemith
Paul Hindemith (; 16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advocate of the ' ...
’s piano music, as well making a prize-winning recording of
Brahms' piano transcriptions. Contemporary composer
Adriana Hölszky dedicated to him a work entitled ''Hearing Window for Franz Liszt'', which was first performed in Frankfurt in 1989.
Among his past students is Bulgarian pianist
Evgeni Bozhanov
Evgeni Bozhanov (Bulgarian: Евгени Божанов) (born in Rousse, Bulgaria on 10 March 1984) is a Bulgarian pianist who trained with Evgeny Zhelyazkov at the National School of Arts "Prof. Vesselin Stoyanov" in Rousse (Bulgaria). From 2001 ...
.
References
External links
Georg Friedrich Schenck (Piano) - Short BiographyWayback MachineLehrende - Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf
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1953 births
Living people
German pianists
Musicians from Aachen
Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover alumni
21st-century pianists