Carl Seemann
Carl Seemann (born May 8, 1910 in Bremen , † November 26, 1983 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German church musician, pianist , piano teacher and director of the Freiburg University of Music .
Life
After graduating from high school, which Carl Seemann took at a humanistic grammar school in Bremen, he wavered between studying theology and studying music. He decided to study church music in Leipzig. His teachers were Karl Straube , Günther Ramin , Kurt Thomas and Carl Adolf Martienssen . After graduating, Seemann initially worked as an organist in Flensburg and Verden . From 1935 he devoted himself mainly to his pianist career and to teaching - Seemann subsequently held professorships and master classes in Kiel , Strasbourg and Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1964 to 1974 he headed the local state music academy .
Many recordings, but especially the duo performances with the violinist Wolfgang Schneiderhan , made Seemann one of the greats of German musical life in the post-war period. Nevertheless, public attention turned to the increasingly dominant Russian master pianists such as Emil Gilels , Vladimir Horowitz and Svjatoslav Richter . This was possibly also a consequence of Seemann's rather factual style of interpretation, which dispensed with virtuoso tricks.
The republication of various Deutsche Grammophon recordings under the title The Legacy in 1999 led to a kind of “sailor renaissance” . In the booklet of the cassette, the critic Joachim Kaiser , in whose book Great Pianists in Our Time (Piper, Munich 1965; new edition 1996, ISBN 3-492-22376-1 ) Carl Seemann did not appear, deals with Seemann's art in an essay.
His assistant in Freiburg was Fany Solter . In his master class he studied a. a. the conductor Hortense von Gelmini .
Carl Seemann's nephew Hellmut Seemann heads the Weimar Classic Foundation .
literature
- Helmuth Hopf and Rudolf Weber: Interview with Carl Seemann . In: ZfMP (= magazine for music education). Gustav Bosse Verlag, Regensburg. 4th year 1979, issue 9, ISSN 0341-2830. Page 3–15.
Discography (selection)
- Carl Seemann plays Bach. Recordings 1953/1958. DG
- JS Bach: The Partitas BWV 825–830. Orfeo
- Mozart: Complete Sonatas for Solo Piano. DG Original Masters
- Brahms: Violin Sonatas and FAE Sonata with Wolfgang Schneiderhan. DG
- Carl Seemann - The Legacy (works by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Debussy and Prokofiev). DG
- Concert of the Schwetzingen Festival 1964 with Wolfgang Schneiderhan (sonatas by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert). Orfeo
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete violin sonatas with Wolfgang Schneiderhan. DG
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Complete violin sonatas with Wolfgang Schneiderhan. DG
Awards
- 1978 Reinhold Schneider Prize for music from the city of Freiburg
Web links
- Works by and about Carl Seemann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Carl Seemann 1958 South Africa tour [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sailor, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1983 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |