Helmut Deutsch (organist)

Helmut Deutsch (born November 20, 1963 in Saarlouis ) is a German organist and professor.

German studied church music A, music education, piano and concert organ with Paul Schneider and Andreas Rothkopf , piano with Walter Blankenheim , additionally privately with Zsigmond Szathmáry in Freiburg and Xavier Darasse in Toulouse at the Hochschule für Musik Saar . Among other things, he is a prize winner of the Franz Liszt Competition in Budapest . After graduating, he was initially a freelance concert organist and music teacher. From the summer semester 2000 to 2013 he was a professor at the Freiburg State University of Music . From 2004 to 2009 he was a frequent guest lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he gave organ courses a. a. in Haarlem, Tokyo, Seoul (Yonsei and Ewha University). In the 2013/2014 winter semester, he accepted a call to the Stuttgart University of Music . His concert activities have taken him to many European countries, Russia and Asia.

Discography

• François Couperin: Mass pour les Couvents, Louis Marchand: Te Deum - Ensemble Canticum, headed by Christoph Erkens; Eglise de l'Abbatiale St Nabor, St Avold (F), organ by Yves Koenig. Arte Nova 1998
• Helmut Deutsch plays Mozart - Eglise Notre Dame-St Vincent Lyon (F), organ by Richard Freytag / Jean-Marie Tricoteaux; VDE Gallo, Lausanne, 2003
• Franz Liszt: Symphonic poems in organ transcriptions - Cathédrale St Etienne Auxerre (F), organ by Dominique Oberthur. Audite, Detmold, 1999
• Franz Liszt: Organ works - Church of Reconciliation Völklingen / Saar, organ by Walcker (1929), restored by Organ Builder Karl Schuke, Berlin. Leico-Records, 1993, Audite, Detmold, 2002, Diapason d'or, Paris 2004
• Grande pièce symphonique - works by Charles-Valentin Alkan (Préludes, Prières), Camille Saint-Saëns (op. 99), Franz Liszt / Camille Saint-Saëns (“La prédication aux oiseaux”) and César Franck (Grande pièce symphonique op. 17). Eglise St Sébastien Nancy (F), historical organ by Dalstein and Haerpfer (1881); Organum Musikproduktion Klaus Faika, Öhringen, 2012
• Reubke: The 94th Psalm. Sonata in C minor - Liszt: Après une lecture de Dante. Fantasia quasi Sonata (transcription for organ by Helmut Deutsch); Gebhardskirche Konstanz, organ by Claudius Winterhalter, Organum classics, Klaus Faika, 2015
• "Pastorale" - organ by Johann Andreas Silbermann (1746), Eglise prieurale St. Quirin (Moselle, France) - works by JS Bach (Pastorale), Domenico Scarlatti (sonatas K 87 and 513), Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (suite in d "Uranie"), Johann Gottfried Walther (Concerto in h del Signor Vivaldi appropriato all'organo), Michel Corrette (Noel provençal, Carillon); Organum classics, Klaus Faika, 2019

Publications

• Franz Liszt: Les Preludes - Symphonic poem No. 3 for large orchestra after Alphonse de Lamartine. Transcription for organ by Helmut Deutsch. Bärenreiter BA 8248, 1998
• Franz Liszt: Après une lecture de Dante - Fantasia quasi Sonata for piano. Transcription for organ by Helmut Deutsch. Schott ED 21091, 2011

Web links

• Homepage of Helmut Deutsch
• Works by and about Helmut Deutsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. German in the person directory of the HMDK Stuttgart
• Prize winners of the Budapest International Competitions from 1933 till now