Ilse von Alpenheim

Ilse von Alpenheim (born February 11, 1927 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian - Swiss pianist .

Life

She was taught at an early age by her mother, a well-known piano teacher, and appeared as a soloist in Joseph Haydn's concert Hob. XVIII, 11 at the age of nine . From 1944 she studied with Winfried Wolf in Kitzbühel, from 1945 to 1949 with Franz Ledwinka at the Mozarteum Salzburg . In 1951 she moved to Switzerland. In 1955, in Bern, she met the Hungarian composer Sándor Veress , with whom she lived until 1968 and for whose piano work she was committed - in the concert hall and on the radio. From 1960 to 1968 she led a concert class at the Bern Conservatory . In 1971 she married the conductor Antal Doráti , who composed several piano works for her and with whom she developed an intensive concert activity. Her career as a soloist has taken her to four continents, where she has given recitals and concerts with numerous leading orchestras. Among their z. The violinists Max Rostal , Henryk Szeryng , Igor Ozim , the cellist Walter Grimmer , the Bernese String Quartet , the Amadeus Quartet and the Camerata Bern have been chamber music partners for some years .

repertoire

Her repertoire is broad, but places a special emphasis on the literature of the Viennese Classic and Early Romanticism, for whose sound-sensitive, structural transparency-conscious interpretation her name primarily stands. In the 20th century, alongside those already mentioned, it was primarily Leoš Janáček , Béla Bartók , Frank Martin , Arthur Honegger , Paul Hindemith and Francis Poulenc , for whose piano and chamber music she advocated.

Recordings

Ilse von Alpenheim has recorded all of Joseph Haydn's piano sonatas, concertini and piano concertos. There is also a complete recording of the songs without words and a selection of other piano works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . In terms of chamber music, she has emerged as a member of the Arion Trio with recordings of the piano trios by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the chamber music for piano and strings by Franz Schubert .

Web links

• Works by and about Ilse von Alpenheim in the catalog of the German National Library