Daniel Chorzempa

Daniel Chorzempa (born December 7, 1944 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) is an American organist .

Chorzempa received his first piano lessons at the age of four, and violin lessons at the age of seven. He later began to study the organ and was a church organist at the age of thirteen. At age seventeen he gave music lessons at the University of Minnesota , where he later with a thesis on Julius Reubke Dr. phil. PhD. He then studied harpsichord, piano, conducting and composition in Cologne at the Cologne University of Music . In 1970 he joined the Cologne studio for electronic music. A number of his compositions in this field, namely the "Sonnet", aroused international interest. Chorzempa gives piano, organ and harpsichord concerts all over the world. His interpretations of the works of Franz Liszt contributed significantly to the renaissance of his compositions in our time and led to the fact that he was the first to be awarded the Grand Prix du Disque by the Budapest Liszt Society, and Chorzempa received the Edison Prize and the German Record price. He has tremendous technical skills and a phenomenal memory; he is constantly interested in questions of performance practice and stylistic aspects. Chorzempa has been a university professor for organ at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg since 1994 .

Prices

• German record award
• Edison Award
• Franz Liszt Prize

Web links

• Works by and about Daniel Chorzempa in the catalog of the German National Library
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