Bernhard Klapprott

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Bernhard Klapprott (* 1964 in Hagen ) is a German harpsichordist, clavichord player , organist and ensemble leader.

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Bernhard Klapprott studied harpsichord with Hugo Ruf , organ with Michael Schneider and church music at the Cologne University of Music. He then continued his studies with Bob van Asperen and Ewald Kooiman in Amsterdam, where he received the harpsichord concert diploma with distinction. In 1991 he was awarded first prize at the 10th Bach-Mozart-Salieri International Organ Competition at the Festival van Vlaanderen Bruges .

He taught at various universities ( Detmold , Herford , Bremen ) as well as at the University of Dortmund and was appointed full professor for harpsichord / historical keyboard instruments at the Liszt School of Music Weimar in 1994 .

Klapprott gives concerts internationally as a harpsichord player, clavichord player and organist and ensemble leader, numerous radio and CD recordings have been made. In addition to playing historical keyboard instruments, the rediscovery and revival of Central German baroque music of the 17th and 18th centuries is a focus of his artistic and musicological work. In this context, he initiated the Thuringia Music Heritage project in 2007. In 1999, together with Christoph Dittmar, he founded the Ensemble for Early Music Cantus Thuringia & Capella Thuringia , based in Weimar, with which, in addition to radio and television productions, he has made CD recordings, including a number of first recordings, e.g. B. the Christmas and New Years Oratorio (1748) by the Rudolstadt conductor Georg Gebel the Elder. J. ( cpo 2003), the St. Matthew Passion (1697) by the Sondershauser Kapellmeister Johann Christoph Rothe (cpo 2010) and cantatas by Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow and Georg Friedrich Händel (cpo 2011).

The first complete recording of the works for keyboard instruments (harpsichord, virginal, organ) by Thomas Tomkins (MDG) received the German Record Critics' Prize in 1997 . Aeolus has released a clavichord CD with piano sonatas by Georg Anton Benda as well as CDs as part of the complete recording of the organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach together with Ewald Kooiman, Ute Gremmel-Geuchen and Gerhard Gnann on organs by Andreas and Johann Andreas Silbermann. In 2013 he received the ECHO Klassik for the best audiophile multi-channel recording of the year, as well as the German Record Critics' Award again.

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  1. ↑ Prof. Bernhard Klapprott. The Liszt School of Music Weimar, accessed on July 29, 2018 (short curriculum vitae).
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SURNAME Klapprott, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German harpsichordist, clavichord player, organist and ensemble leader
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen