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Helmut Bieler (7 June 1940 in
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,
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– 11 January 2019 in
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) was a Germans, German composer and pianist. He studied composition with Franz Xaver Lehner and Fritz Schieri, piano with
Friedrich Wührer Friedrich Wührer (29 June 1900 – 27 December 1975) was an Austrian-German pianist and piano pedagogue. He was a close associate and advocate of composer Franz Schmidt, whose music he edited and, in the case of the works for left hand alone, revi ...
and Aldo Schoen and learned music at the University for Music and Performing Arts, Munich. From 1967 to 1979 he taught at the Markgräfin-Wilhelmine-Gymnasium, Bayreuth. In 1979 he became a
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and 1988 a
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of
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at the
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. He founded the Ensemble Musica Viva (Bayreuth) in 1980 and the Bayreuth Days of Contemporary Music in 1988. His music has been performed in Europe (e.g. Gaudeamus Muziekweek and
ISCM The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) is a music organization that promotes contemporary classical music. The organization was established in Salzburg in 1922 as Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (IGNM) following the ...
World Music Days Festival in Aarhus,
Ensemble Sortisatio Ensemble Sortisatio is a quartet (viola, oboe/cor anglais, bassoon and guitar) founded by violist Matthias Sannemüller in 1992 in Leipzig, Germany. Its members are mostly soloists at the MDR Symphony Orchestra. They have specialized in contempora ...
), Russia and the USA.


Prizes

* 1980: Prize for the Promotion of Culture by the City of
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* 1992: Cultural Prize of the City of
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* 2008: Friedrich Baur Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts


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Helmut Bieler
at The Living Composers Project
Helmut Bieler
at the International Weeks for Contemporary Music Lüneburg 1940 births 2019 deaths People from Fulda (district) People from Hesse-Nassau German classical composers German classical pianists Male classical pianists German schoolteachers 20th-century classical composers German male classical composers 20th-century German composers German male pianists 21st-century classical pianists 20th-century German male musicians 21st-century German male musicians {{classical-pianist-stub