Gabor Antalffy

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Gabor Antalffy (born November 2, 1937 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian pianist and harpsichordist .

Life

Gabor Antalffy left Hungary in 1956 and studied piano with Edith Picht-Axenfeld in Freiburg. She also received his first suggestions for the harpsichord, but went to West Berlin in 1957 and was accepted into the master classes for piano (Hans-Erich Riebensahm) and conducting (Richard Krauss) at the Hochschule der Künste.

After completing his studies, he was opera conductor in Münster and Cologne from 1961 to 1964, and has been a lecturer at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf since 1964 .

In 1968 he began to deal intensively with the peculiarities of harpsichord playing and soon became, in addition to a broad solo activity, a sought-after member of several ensembles (international baroque trio, baroque ensemble Philipp Emanuel, Rheinisches Bach-Kollegium, German Chamber Academy, etc.).

In 1988 - the 200th year of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's death - he cyclically presented his six collections for connoisseurs and enthusiasts to the public . The ensuing complete recording (4 CDs on different harpsichords and fortepiano) was awarded the German Record Prize.

Since then, Gabor Antalffy has increasingly played the piano again (three cyclical performances with a focus on Beethoven, Liszt and Debussy). As a harpsichordist, pianist, accompanist, chamber musician and conductor, he concentrated all over Western Europe, in Slovenia (International Festival Ljubljana) as well as in Canada and Japan.

Radio recordings were made on many German broadcasters as well as in Hilversum, Bern and Vienna.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A life for music. Lokal Anzeiger Erkrath, November 12, 2017, accessed April 10, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Antalffy, Gabor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Antalffy, Gábor (birth name in Hungary)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian pianist and harpsichordist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest