Gerhard Puchelt

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Gerhard Puchelt (1985)

Gerhard Puchelt (born February 18, 1913 in Stettin ; † August 27, 1987 in Berlin ) was a German pianist .

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Puchelt studied from 1931 to 1935 at the Academy for Church and School Music with Else C. Kraus and Eduard Erdmann and at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . He then worked as a concert pianist and accompanist for well-known singers, instrumentalists and chamber music ensembles. After the Second World War he continued his career as a piano virtuoso and gave his first concert with the Berlin Philharmonic in September 1945 (Schumann, Piano Concerto op. 54). In 1949 he was appointed professor of piano at the Berlin-Charlottenburg University of Music and remained in this position until 1978.

Puchelt performed his concert activities in both parts of Germany, Western Europe, the Soviet Union - where he was the first West German pianist to be invited in 1956 -, South America, Japan and the USA. When he gave five concerts in the Soviet Union in 1962, following a decision by the West Berlin cultural administration and the artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic , he was not allowed to take part in Philharmonic concerts that year as planned. The aim was to “counteract public complaints.” Puchelt was a juror in numerous international piano competitions, a. a. several times at the Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau . In the 1970s he was a member of the Broadcasting Council of the Sender Free Berlin and deputy chairman of the program committee.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Puchelt also went on tour with his daughter Christiane Edinger . Gerhard Puchelt has received several awards for his outstanding work as a music teacher and concert pianist. In Robert Lienau Musikverlag he published a. a. Lost Sounds: studies of German Piano Music 1830-1880 and took a new instrumentation of the fifth piano concerto by Johann Baptist Cramer ago. He produced numerous radio and vinyl recordings (the latter partly at ETERNA / VEB Deutsche Schallplatten [East] Berlin).

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He is buried in the Dahlem St. Annenfriedhof Grablege R 29-19 . His grave was dedicated to the city of Berlin from 1990 to 2014 .

Honors

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  • Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954
  • DER SPIEGEL 19/1962
  • Gerhard Puchelt 65, Berliner Tagesspiegel 1978
  • Sabine Jahnke: Radio broadcast for Gerhard Puchelt's 70th birthday , February 18, 1983
  • Walther Harth: Program of the Puchelt Memorial Concert 1988 (piano recital by Yukiko Tanaka)

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Individual proof

  1. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 19, January 27, 1979.
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SURNAME Puchelt, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1987
Place of death Berlin