Johann Sonnleitner

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Johann Sonnleitner (* 1941 in Trofaiach ) is a Zurich- based music teacher and expert as an interpreter of early music on historical keyboard instruments. He is an organist , harpsichordist and music historian .

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Sonnleitner studied at the Vienna Academy of Music Organ ( Alois Forer ), harpsichord ( Eta Harich-Schneider ) and music education as well as at the University of Vienna history and pedagogy and completed his training by attending master classes with Gustav Leonhardt , Anton Heiller , Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini , Marie -Claire Alain , Cor Kee u. a. He can refer to an international concert career as a soloist, chamber music partner and lied accompanist.

His teaching activity began at the Vienna University of Music in the subjects of improvisation and score playing and continued with a six-year assistant to Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum Salzburg . In 1979 he came to the Zurich University of Music as a teacher of historical keyboard instruments. From 1983 to 2003 he taught regularly at the teaching and research institute Schola Cantorum Basiliensis . For more than two decades, Sonnleitner led the master classes for keyboard instruments as part of the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music .

Among others, Margarete Kopelent, Marie-Louise Dähler , Yasunori Imamura and Naoki Kitaya studied at Sonnleitner, and in courses he taught artists such as Oscar Milani , Christine Schornsheim and Gudrun Schaumann .

He published his teaching and research activities in the areas of performance practice (especially with regard to the historical tempo and metronome information) in a series of essays and together with the musicologist Clemens-Christoph von Gleich in the study course Bach: Wie Schnell?

Sonnleitner is known for numerous first performances of new organ and harpsichord music as a participant in the Viennese ensemble The Series by Friedrich Cerha and uses music in an expanded tonality, inspired by the compositions and research work of Heiner Ruland . Sonnleitner composes songs , choral works, chamber music and music for 24-note keyboard instruments ( quarter-tone music ).

Works (selection)

Cantatas
  • The Oelberg Apocalypse
  • The heavenly rider
  • The armor of God
Vespers
  • On the threshold of the evening
Oratorio
  • Ringing light
  • Olaf Astenson's dream song

Awards

  • Winner of the International Harpsichord Competition in Bruges (1968)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Sonnleitner - Hammerflügel In: Web presence of Unterwegs mit Mozart .
  2. ↑ Clemens-Christoph von Gleich ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Web presence of the publisher Free Spiritual Life @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geistesleben.de
personal data
SURNAME Sonnleitner, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian and Swiss music pedagogue, organist, harpsichordist and music historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Trofaiach