Erna Heiller
Erna Heiller (born Ernestine Hladik ; born April 5, 1922 in Vienna ; † February 4, 2007 there ) was an Austrian concert pianist and harpsichordist.
Life
Ernestine Hladik was born into a music-loving family in Vienna- Währing . As a musical talent, she was accepted into Ferdinand Rebay's piano class at the Vienna Music Academy, today's University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , where Josef Dichler and Bruno Seidlhofer were her teachers later . She passed her school-leaving examination in piano on January 12, 1945 and completed the harpsichord class with Isolde Ahlgrimm in autumn 1945. Through their studies together, she met her future husband, the Viennese musician, composer and organist Anton Heiller . The couple married on November 18, 1945 in the parish church of Dornbach in Vienna.
Erna Heiller appeared in solo concerts in the following years, including in the Brahms Hall of the Wiener Musikverein . She played Anton Heiller's toccata for two pianos together with the composer at the Salzburg Festival in 1947 in the presence of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan . The piece had previously been premiered in a private circle around the pianist and composer Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté , officially in 1945 in the Brahms Hall of the Wiener Musikverein.
In the post-war years in particular, the Heillers made numerous joint appearances and made radio and recordings with a repertoire of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach , Frank Martin , Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky . After Anton Heiller's early death in 1979, she again gave more piano and occasionally harpsichord lessons, whereby it was important for Erna Heiller to pass on the so-called E-Gré method she had learned from Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté. She was invited twice with her students to Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada, to demonstrate this method there.
Erna and Anton Heiller had two children. Erna Heiller died on February 4, 2007 in Vienna.
literature
- Peter Planyavsky : Anton Heiller - All the registers of a life. Edition VA bENE, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85167-227-5 .
- Thomas Schmögner: In Memoriam Anton Heiller (1923–1979). Publications of the Austrian Organ Forum. Edited by Günter Lade. Vienna 1989.
- DVD: Appassionata. The Extraordinary Life and Music of Sonia Eckhardt-Gramatté. Buffalo Gal Pictures. 94 min.
- Peter Planyavsky: Anton Heiller: organist, composer, conductor. Translated by Christa Rumsey; University of Rochester Press 2014, ISBN 978-1-58046497-0 . 366 pp.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heiller, Erna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hladik, Ernestine (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian concert pianist and harpsichordist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 2007 |
| Place of death | Vienna |