Gerhard Oppitz
Gerhard Oppitz (born February 5, 1953 in Frauenau / Bavaria) is a German pianist .
Life
Oppitz attended the Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium in Heilbronn and won the 1970 state and national winner in the Jugend musiziert competition . He later studied with Paul Buck , Hugo Steurer and Wilhelm Kempff . In the summer of 1977, at the age of 24, Oppitz became the first German to win the Arthur Rubinstein piano competition in Tel Aviv. In 1981 he was appointed as the youngest professor in the history of the institute at the Munich University of Music , where he taught until 2013.
As a soloist he has performed with many well-known conductors and orchestras. Oppitz is considered an accomplished Brahms interpreter. He recorded all of the composer's works on record and performed them in concert cycles. He has also performed all of Schubert's piano works . All of Grieg's piano works and Weber's complete works for piano and orchestra are available on records .
Oppitz is also committed to contemporary composers such as Lutosławski , Ligeti , Messiaen , Henze , Veerhoff , Sauter and Boulez .
In 2009 Oppitz was awarded the Brahms Prize , and in 2014 the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art .
literature
- Carsten Dürer (Ed.): Conversations with pianists. Staccato-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-932976-18-5 , pages 285 to 291.
- Ingo Harden , Gregor Willmes: Pianist Profiles. 600 performers: their biography, their style, their recordings. Bärenreiter 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1616-5 , pages 530 to 532.
Films (selection)
- Gerhard Oppitz - close-up. Pianist, professor & pilot . Documentary (2008), 45 min., Director: Michael Beyer, first broadcast on December 29, 2013 on ARD-alpha , made available by Loftmusic on May 14, 2016 on YouTube .
Web links
- Works by and about Gerhard Oppitz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information on Gerhard Oppitz at Concerto Winderstein Munich
- Information about Gerhard Oppitz at bach-cantatas.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Föll: Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn . Volume X: 1970-1974. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1999, ISBN 3-928990-68-3 , p. 14, 34 ( publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 38).
- ↑ Gerhard Oppitz. Bavarian State Opera , accessed January 19, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oppitz, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th February 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frauenau , Bavaria |