Walter Riemer (musician)
Walter Riemer (born June 30, 1940 in Vienna ) is an Austrian piano interpreter and expert on the fortepiano .
Life
Riemer studied piano at the Vienna Conservatory (including one year at the Eastman School of Music , Rochester, NY) and electrical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology . Although he made a living from his technical profession, he played numerous concerts every year, mostly chamber music , but also solo and as a lied accompanist on the modern piano.
Since 1988 he has been organizing chamber music concerts in Niederfellabrunn Palace, not far from Vienna. In this context, he met the American fortepiano specialist Richard Fuller, who aroused his interest in this historical instrument. This also led to several years of concert activity on two fortepianos.
His fortepiano was built in 1995 from a kit by Zuckermann based on an instrument by Andreas Stein (now in the collection of historical musical instruments in Leipzig ). In the meantime he has turned back to the modern piano, mainly as a song accompanist.
After years of original sound concerts in a Viennese baroque hall, concerts in Oberrohrbach have been continued since 2018 .
Riemer played the " Art of Fugue " and "Goldberg Variations" for the first time using a fortepiano. His fortepiano is tuned according to a reconstruction of Johann Sebastian Bach's tuning method.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dipl.-Ing. Walter Riemer. In: www.riemerconsult.at. Retrieved November 17, 2016 .
- ↑ http://niederfellabrunn.at/Ftp/MeineKdF.pdf
- ↑ http://www.larips.com/
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Riemer, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian piano interpreter and expert on the fortepiano |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |