Amadeus Webersinke

Amadeus Webersinke (born November 1, 1920 in Broumov , Czechoslovakia , † May 15, 2005 in Dresden ) was a German pianist , organist and university professor .

Life

Grave, church cemetery "Maria am Wasser", Dresden-Hosterwitz (2009)

Webersinke, the son of a teacher, came from northern Bohemia . He attended the Freiwaldau high school and passed his Abitur in 1938. He then studied from 1938 to 1940 with Karl Straube , Johann Nepomuk David , Otto Weinreich and Carl Adolf Martienssen at the Church Music Institute of the Leipzig Conservatory . In 1940 he passed the examination to become a full-time church musician and did military service from 1940 to 1945 (as a corporal).

Webersinke became a lecturer in 1946 and professor for piano in 1953 at the Leipzig University of Music. Until 1953 he worked mainly as an organist, then exclusively as a pianist. Concert tours took him from the GDR to Eastern Europe, but also to Western Europe and Japan. He was visiting professor in Freiburg im Breisgau and Tokyo .

Amadeus Webersinke dedicated himself particularly to the care of Bach's organ and piano works and also gave concerts on the clavichord . He was also committed to contemporary music in the GDR, for example as a soloist in Siegfried Köhler's piano concerto . In 1966 he took over a professorship at the Dresden Music Academy , where he was head of the piano department. From 1972 he was head of the master class for chamber music at the university. His students included u. a. Andreas Boyde , Olaf Dressler and Gerhard Erber .

His grave is in the Protestant cemetery Maria am Wasser in Dresden-Hosterwitz.

Awards

• First prize for organ at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig (1950)
• National Prize of the GDR III. Class (1950)
• Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau (1974)
• Honored university lecturer in the GDR (1980)
• Gold Star of Friendship of Nations (1988)
• Saxon Order of Merit (2000)

literature

• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 982.
• Ingo Harden : Amadeus Webersinke . In: Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes: Pianist profiles: 600 performers: their biography, their style, their recordings . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1616-5 , pp. 766f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Amadeus Webersinke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Amadeus Webersinke at Discogs (English)