Gerhard Erber

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Gerhard Erber (born November 21, 1934 in Dessau ; † September 4, 2021 ) was a German pianist , member of the Hanns Eisler group for new music and professor of piano at the Leipzig University of Music .

Life

Gerhard Erber was born in 1934 as the son of the Dessau piano maker Fritz Erber . From 1953 to 1959 he studied piano with Amadeus Webersinke at the Leipzig University of Music. Then he was a piano teacher at the Leipzig St. Thomas Choir . In 1964 he received the 3rd prize for piano at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig.

He had a wide repertoire. In 1970 he was a founding member of the renowned Hanns Eisler New Music group around Burkhard Glaetzner and Friedrich Schenker . In 1971 he became a member of the Aulos Trio as the successor to Klaus Closer (bassoon), in which he played with Burkhard Glaetzner and Wolfgang Weber . He also played in a duo with Max Rostal , Oleg Kagan and Raphael Hillyer . As a soloist and chamber musician, he has given concerts in Europe, Asia and Central America. He dedicated himself particularly to contemporary music . He performed solo pieces by a.o. Heinz Röttger , Georg Katzer , Reiner Bredemeyer , Gerhard Rosenfeld , Max E. Keller , Günter Neubert and Friedrich Schenker for the premiere. But his interpretation of Erik Satie's works also caused a stir. Numerous LP and radio recordings were made. As a member of the Eisler Group, he received several awards, including the Art Prize of the City of Leipzig (1980), the Art Prize of the GDR (1980), the Gold Badge of Honor of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR (1988), the Interpreter Prize of the Berlin Music Biennale and the Schneider-Schott Music Prize Mainz (1991 ).

In 1972 he received an apprenticeship and became a lecturer at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music in Leipzig. In 1990 he became a professor for piano. His students include: Steffen Schleiermacher , Hanns-Martin Schreiber and Josef Christof . He took part in the Weimar summer course for a long time. In 2010 he gave a master class for piano at the Leipzig University of Music. Erber was also chairman of the interpreters section of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR. In 1990 he was one of the founding members of the Forum for Contemporary Music Leipzig .

He also acted as a juror at national and international piano competitions. In 1996, he founded a Bach workshop for music teachers and students in Köthen and, in 1999, a national Bach competition for young pianists, which has been organized by the Köthener Bach Society since 2001. Erber became honorary chairman of the competition in 2013.

Erber was a passionate table tennis player , so he took 3rd place in the table tennis doubles at the GDR senior championship in 1985. In 2009 he won 1st place at the Saxon table tennis senior championships.

Gerhard Erber died at the beginning of September 2021 after a long and serious illness at the age of 86.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Steffen Schleiermacher : Versatile, generous, committed: the Leipzig pianist and teacher Gerhard Erber has died. Retrieved September 5, 2021 .
  2. ↑ a b c Claus Blumstengel: The professor is leaving . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , October 30, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Udo Klement : Many astonishing ways of making music with keyboard instruments: The pianist Gerhard Erber . In: Leipziger Blätter , Heft 11, 1986, p. 62f.
  4. ↑ Burkhard Glaetzner : World premieres of the new music group "Hanns Eisler" (PDF), burkhard-glaetzner.de, accessed on February 10, 2018.
  5. ^ Gregor Willmes: Steffen Schleiermacher . In: Ingo Harden , Gregor Willmes: Pianist profiles: 600 performers: their biography, their style, their recordings . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1616-5 , pp. 645–647, here: p. 645.
  6. ↑ Hanns-Martin Schreiber on: hmt-leipzig.de
  7. ↑ Master classes: Gerhard Erber , hmt-leipzig.de, accessed on February 10, 2018.
  8. ↑ Burkhard Glaetzner : Address. On my own account . In: MusikTexte , 37, 1990, p. 61.
  9. ↑ Gerhard Erber , rueckblick.chopin-gesellschaft.de, accessed on January 10, 2018.
  10. ↑ Judith Kreuz: Watched for fingers: between black and white ( Memento from February 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) on mephisto 97.6 from February 17, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Erber, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
BIRTH DATE November 21, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 2021