Grete Wehmeyer

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Grete Wehmeyer (born October 5, 1924 in Cologne ; † October 18, 2011 there ) was a German pianist and musicologist .

Live and act

Wehmeyer studied musicology, German literature and philosophy at the University of Cologne . Her doctoral thesis from 1950 was on Max Reger as a song composer . Wehmeyer completed a piano course at the Cologne University of Music and from 1965 toured worldwide with commented concerts for the Goethe Institute . Since 1968 she worked as a freelancer for WDR and other broadcasters. From 1982 to 1984 she was visiting professor for piano at the Musashino Academy in Tokyo . The slowing down of classical music moved into the focus of her interests from 1983 and has been a central topic of her academic work ever since; always from the point of view of music it is a chant similar to speech . She recorded some piano works herself at half tempo. Another favorite topic was the culture of laughter ( loosely adapted from Bakhtin ) in music. She also dealt intensively with the music and life of Erik Satie , which resulted in several publications, including the biography Erik Satie (first published in 1974), the standard German work on the French pianist and composer. In addition to all of her work, she was a committed teacher of many generations of piano students.

Grete Wehmeyer lived in Cologne until her death, as a pianist, teacher and musicologist. She died a few days after her 87th birthday on October 18, 2011.

Book publications

  • Max Reger as a song composer. A contribution to the problem of the word-tone relationship. Diss. Cologne 1950; Bosse Verlag, Regensburg 1955.
  • Erik Satie. A biography. Bosse Verlag, Regensburg 1974; revised NA Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-7649-2079-3 .
  • Edgard Varèse. With drawings by L. Alcopley. Bosse Verlag, Regensburg 1977, ISBN 3-7649-2134-X .
  • Carl Czerny and solitary confinement at the piano or the art of manual dexterity. Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel 1983, ISBN 978-3-7618-0699-9 .
  • Gioacchino Rossini. Life and work. Biography by Richard Osborne, translated by Grete Wehmeyer from the English. List, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-471-78305-9 ; Tb: Droemer Knaur: Munich 1992.
  • Prestissimo! The rediscovery of slowness in music. Kellner Verlag, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-927623-00-8 ; Tb: Rowohlt Publisher: Reinbek bei Hamburg 1989.
  • Help! Help! Otherwise I am lost. Mozart and the speed. Kellner Verlag, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 978-3-927623-10-1 .
  • Erik Satie. Pictures and documents. Edition Spangenberg, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-89409-073-1 .
  • Hell gallop and Götterdämmerung. Laughter culture with Jacques Offenbach and Richard Wagner. Dittrich Verlag, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-920862-13-9 .
  • Erik Satie. Rowohlt Monographs, Reinbek near Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-499-50571-1 .
  • Live slowly. Illustrations by Eva Spanjardt. Herder, Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-451-27237-7 .
  • Criminal history of European classical music. 2007 e-book.

Discography

  • Erik Satie: Geneviève de Brabant. EMI 1 C 065-12804, 1974 (LP)
  • Prestississimo. In it: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata KV 310, A minor. Two thousand and one, 1990.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata op.53 ( Waldstein Sonata ), Andante favori , Sonate op.57 ( Appassionata )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice at wirtrauern.de accessed on November 10, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Wehmeyer, Grete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist, teacher and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 2011
Place of death Cologne