Gerrit Zitterbart
Gerrit Zitterbart (born May 9, 1952 in Göttingen ) is a German pianist and chamber musician .
Life
Zitterbart received his training in Hanover, Salzburg, Freiburg and Bonn with Hans Leygraf , Erika Haase , Karl Engel , Lajos Rovatkay , Carl Seemann and Stefan Askenase . At the beginning of the pianistic career there were competitive successes in Switzerland, Belgium, Italy and Germany.
In 1976 he founded the Abegg Trio together with Ulrich Beetz ( violin ) and Birgit Erichson ( violoncello ) , which have played together with the original line-up for over 40 years and gave around 1,250 concerts.
Since 1999, Zitterbart plays in a duo with Matthias Metzger (violin), in a duo with Denise Wambsganß he leads in the rare occupation mandolin and fortepiano original works of u. a. Beethoven and Hummel up. Zitterbart is a member of the Arte Ensemble Hannover and has performed in the piano quartet a. a. with the Kandinsky Trio.
Gerrit Zitterbart received the Choc in France for his recording of early Mozart piano concertos, and with the Abegg Trio he was awarded five times at the German Record Critics' Prize (quarterly list).
Since 2000, one of his main focuses has been concerts on historic fortepiano . It emerged CD recordings with works of Bach sons , of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Muzio Clementi , Joseph Haydn , Ludwig van Beethoven , Johann Nepomuk Hummel , Franz Schubert , Johannes Brahms . In May 2008 Gerrit Zitterbart was the first pianist to give piano recitals with the fortepiano in Beijing.
Another part of his work are children's concerts, on which the CDs “ The Bach Family ”, “Music That Tells Stories” and “Robert & Peter” are available.
Lecturer and music sponsor
Zitterbart has been teaching at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media since 1981, and in 1983 he was appointed professor . From 2007 to 2010 he was vice-president of the university and for many years was spokesman for the piano department and course spokesman for the Bachelor and Master courses in keyboard instruments .
In order to give young musicians access to historical ways of playing (HIP = historically informed performance), Zitterbart founded the association Clavier eV at the university , which enables the financing of an instrument collection as an overview of the most important stages in piano construction.
In March 2012 Gerrit Zitterbart opened a piano salon in the old town of Göttingen .
CD recordings (selection)
- Johann Christian Bach : Piano Sonatas op.5, 1-3, D major op.5,2 (historical)
- Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach : Piano Sonata in D major (historical)
- Joseph Haydn : Piano Concertos in F major, G major, D major, Variations in F minor (historical), piano trios (modern and historical), songs (with Heidrun bubble) (historical)
- Wolfgang Amadé Mozart : Piano concertos KV 37, 39, 40, 41, 107, 1-3, 238, 246, 271, 595, piano sonatas (historical and modern), fantasies (historical), all piano trios (historical and modern)
- Muzio Clementi : Piano Sonata in G minor op.7,3 (historical)
- Ludwig van Beethoven : Piano Sonatas op.10.3, op.13 (historical), op.31.2, op.49 (historical), op.53, op.81a, Variations (historical), Rondos op.51, op .129 (historical), various piano pieces (historical), all piano trios , violin sonatas op.12, 1-3, op.23, op.24, op.47 (with Matthias Metzger, historical and modern), works for mandolin & fortepiano (historical, with Denise Wambsganß)
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel : Piano Sonata in F minor op.20 (historical), Sonata for mandolin & fortepiano op.37 (historical, with Denise Wambsganß)
- Adam Valentin Volckmar : Piano Trios
- Franz Schubert : Piano sonatas D 959, D 960 (historical and modern), Scherzi, dances (historical), all piano trios
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy : all piano trios
- Fanny Hensel : piano trio
- Robert Schumann : Abegg Variations op.1, Carnaval op.9, Children's Sonata op.118a, all piano trios
- Clara Schumann : Piano Trio
- Frédéric Chopin : Sonata in B minor op.58, four ballads, Fantaisie op.49, Polonaise-Phantaisie op.61, Nocturnes, Impromptus, Mazurkas, waltzes, piano trio
- Hermann Goetz : Piano Trio
- Franz Berwald : Piano Trio
- Friedrich Kiel : Piano Trio
- Louise Farrenc : Piano Trio
- Niels Wilhelm Gade : all piano trios
- Bedřich Smetana : Piano Trio
- Johannes Brahms : Fantasias op.116, Intermezzi op.117, all piano trios , songs (with Maya Boog and Hans Peter Blochwitz)
- Antonín Dvořák : all piano trios
- Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann. Brahms, Wagner, Liszt, Grieg, Wolf, Strauss: Lullabies (with Heidrun Blase) (historical)
- Leoš Janáček : Piano Trio
- Pyotr Tchaikovsky : Piano Trio
- Sergei Rachmaninoff : Piano Trio
- Claude Debussy : L'isle joyeuse, piano trio
- Maurice Ravel : Sonatina, piano trio
- Alban Berg : Piano Sonata op.1
- Alexander Scriabin : 4th piano sonata op.30
- Igor Stravinsky : Tango , Piano Rag Music, Circuspolka
- Dmitri Shostakovich : all piano trios
- Kurt Weill : Magic Night
- Hans Werner Henze : Chamber sonata ( piano trio )
- Karlheinz Stockhausen : Piano Piece IX
- Wolfgang Rihm : Stranger Scene ( Piano Trio )
- Michael Obst : Piano Trio No. 2
Audio books
- Reverberation of a love George Sand and Frédéric Chopin ( NDR : Audiobooks of the Year 2006 )
- What are you doing with your knee, dear Brahms, parodies of great masters by Ochs, Pillney, Priegnitz and Volkmann (Klaus Geitel in the Berliner Morgenpost : The best records of 2005 )
- Music that tells stories Children's CD with works from Rameau to Bartók, played on fortepiano and modern grand piano
- Die Familie Bach Children's CD with works by Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons, played on clavichord , harpsichord , fortepiano and modern grand piano
- Robert & Peter children's CD with works by Schumann (op.68) and Tchaikovsky (op.39)
literature
- Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes: Pianist Profiles. 600 pianists: their biography, their style, their recordings . Gerrit Zitterbart. 1st edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1616-5 , p. 796-798 .
Web links
- Website by Gerrit Zitterbart
- Website Clavier-Salon Göttingen
- Works by and about Gerrit Zitterbart in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gerrit Zitterbart plays Schubert on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical data of Gerrit Zitterbart in: Wer ist Wer - Das deutsche Who's Who 2000/2001 . 39th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Verlagsgruppe Beleke, Lübeck 2000, p. 1581, ISBN 978-3-7950-2029-3 .
- ^ Adam Valentin Volckmar (1770-1851), a forgotten Rinteln composer
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Shiverbeard, Gerrit |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist and chamber musician |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1952 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |