Gerald Hambitzer

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Gerald Hambitzer (born December 16, 1957 in Bonn ) is a German harpsichord player , clavichord and hammer piano player .

Live and act

He completed his music studies with a major in harpsichord with Hugo Ruf at the Cologne University of Music . He is one of the founding members of the Concerto Köln orchestra , and has been involved in its concert and opera productions ever since. He has performed on several continents and made numerous sound recordings.

Hambitzer is also known as a performer on the clavichord and the fortepiano . In 2001 he founded the Arcangelo Trio together with the recorder player Daniel Rothert and the cellist Markus Möllenbeck. Since 1999 Hambitzer has been professor for historical keyboard instruments at the Cologne University of Music . As Vice Dean in Faculty II, he heads the Institute for Early Music . His many students include Alexandra Kertz-Welzel , Frank Stanzl and Martin Welzel .

Discography (selection)

Solo recordings

  • Miłosz Bembinow: Seven Gates To Wildness (for harpsichord, 2003; first recording). In: Miłosz Bembinow - we are dust and shadow. CD. Edition Villa Concordia / Cavalli, 2006.
  • Bach and Silbermann . Works by Johann Sebastian Bach , Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach . Harpsichord by Martin-Christian Schmidt after Gottfried Silbermann, Freiberg around 1740. CD. Christophorus 2005.
  • Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer : Musical Parnassus. Harpsichord works from Musical Parnassus and Musical Flower Tuft. Dohr, Cologne 2002.
  • The Hubert clavichord in the Bayreuth City Museum. Works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Clavichord by Christian Gottlob Hubert, Ansbach 1756. CD. Concerto, Bayreuth 1995.

Chamber music

  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Trio in A major BWV 1025 and Fugue in G minor BWV 1026. Werner Ehrhardt (violin after Jacobus Stainer, Absam around 1680) and Gerald Hambitzer (harpsichord by Martin-Christian Schmidt after Gottfried Silbermann, Freiberg around 1740). 1999. In: Bach 2000. Vol. 11, CD 9. Teldec, 2000 (world premiere).
  • Handel in Italy. With the Arcangelo Trio. CD. WDR / Aulos, 2002.
  • New Meersburg Castle - courtly music on original instruments. Works by Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach , Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Maximilian-Friedrich von Droste zu Hülshoff , Johann Wilhelm Häßler , Carl Stamitz and Johann George Tromlitz . Together with Günther Höller (transverse flute), Gerhard Peters (violin) and Klaus-Dieter Brandt (violoncello). CD. Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg 2003.
  • Georg Friedrich Handel : Complete Violin Sonatas. Ensemble Vintage Cologne: Ariadne Daskalakis (violin by Januarius Gagliano , 1732), Rainer Zipperling (viola da gamba by François Bodart 1992, based on Barbey / Barockcello from England? Around 1690), Gerald Hambitzer (harpsichord by Lutz Werum 2001, based on Johannes Ruckers , Antwerp 1640). 1 CD. Naxos, 2010.

literature

  • Michael Kaiser: The Rhenish nobility and the music culture in the outgoing Ancien Régime . A conversation with Gerald Hambitzer. In: zeitenblicke , 9, No. 1, June 10, 2010, zeitenblicke.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait on the website of the Braun Künstlerbüro, accessed on October 11, 2011.
  2. ^ Stefanie Weiss ( Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia ): Description, quoted on the composer's website, accessed on October 14, 2011.
  3. ↑ Description and audio examples. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cavalli-records.de
  4. ↑ Review ( memento from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) by Theodor Schliehen in Klassik Heute from May 3, 2005, accessed on October 11, 2011.
  5. ↑ Review of Bradley Lehman: Death and the Mayerin - Germanic harpsichord music. In: Early Music. Vol. 33 No. 4, November 2005, ISSN  0306-1078 . Pp. 730-732. See the journal's table of contents at Project MUSE , accessed October 13, 2011.
  6. ^ Table of contents on the website of the Concerto label , accessed on October 14, 2011.
  7. ↑ Christian Vitalis: Baroque Panorama. Review of June 2, 2006 at klassik.com , accessed October 11, 2011.
  8. ↑ back of title (PDF; 96 kB) at Label Naxos ; Retrieved October 18, 2011.
  9. ↑ Retrieved October 11, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Hambitzer, Gerald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German harpsichordist, clavichord and fortepiano player
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn