Alfons Kontarsky

Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky in Shiraz (1972)

Alfons Kontarsky (born October 9, 1932 in Iserlohn ; † May 5, 2010, presumably in Großgmain , Land Salzburg ) was a German pianist.

Life

Kontarsky played the piano and organ as a child. From 1953 he studied four semesters at the Cologne University of Music and Dance with Else Schmitz-Gohr (piano) and Maurits Frank (chamber music). With his older brother Aloys he won first prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 1955 . In 1967 Alfons Kontarsky was appointed professor of piano at the Cologne University of Music , and in 1979 he moved to Munich . From 1983 until his retirement in 2001 he was a professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

From 1970 to 1975 Alfons Kontarsky formed a trio with the violinist Saschko Gawriloff and the cellist Klaus Storck . He had been in close contact with new music since 1951 . He interpreted works by Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Karlheinz Stockhausen . Many works were written for him, dedicated to him and premiered by him. He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and the German Music Council .

Creative interpreter and teacher . On the 10th anniversary of Eduard Erdmann's death on June 21. In: New magazine for music . No. 6 , 1968, ISSN 0170-8791 , p. 264 .

↑ Pianist Alfons Kontarsky has died , Badische Zeitung, May 8, 2010, accessed on August 25, 2017

personal data
SURNAME	Kontarsky, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 9, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Iserlohn
DATE OF DEATH	May 5, 2010
Place of death	uncertain: Großgmain , Land Salzburg