Karl-Heinz Pick

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Karl-Heinz Pick

Karl-Heinz Pick (born August 18, 1929 in Rothenburg / Oberlausitz , † October 2, 2009 in Leipzig ) was a German pianist, composer, university lecturer at the HMT Leipzig and honorary president of the German Chopin Society

Life

Pick received artistic training at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music in Leipzig , where he was professor for piano until his retirement in 1994. Piano teachers and pianists emerged from his class. For about 15 years he headed the piano faculty at the Leipzig University of Music, which also included the subjects organ and harpsichord.

He has given concerts in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Compositional work was a focus of his artistic activity. In addition to chamber music works, he was particularly prominent with piano compositions and song cycles. He was a member of the jury at piano competitions in Sofia, Moscow, Brussels, Paris, Lisbon, Vercelli, Athens, Prague, Leipzig and Zwickau, as well as at the Chopin competitions in Göttingen, Darmstadt and Warsaw.

In October 1962, Pick was one of the founding members of the "Chopin Society of the GDR". As successor to Werner Felix , he was elected President of the Society in February 1986, which confirmed him several times in this office. Since 2006 he has been honorary president of the German Chopin Society. Pick was in 1985 in Warsaw co-signatory of the founding charter of the International Federation of Chopin Societies of the World (IFCS), of which he was a member of the Presidium until 1995. He was the recipient of the Leipzig City Art Prize and was awarded the Order for Services to Polish Culture by the Republic of Poland. Pick was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and was a member of the SED district leadership in Leipzig from 1964 to 1967 .

Pick died at the age of 80.

Works

Piano for two hands

  • Four dance pieces
  • Toccata, Allegro assai e marcato
  • Small fairy tale suite
  • Trois Pièces pour piano
  • First sonata for piano
  • Etude à la Czerny
  • Tributes and Fantastic Nocturne
  • Burattino's piano stories
  • Cadenzas to piano concertos by WA Mozart
  • Second piano sonata
  • Piano trio for the youth

Piano for four hands

  • In those distant bygone days
  • On road

Piano for six hands

  • Suite for three
  • Polonaise
  • Royal March of the Lion

Vocal works

  • You black earth
  • Our spring
  • Departure
  • Peters - vocal work soprano
  • Peters - vocal work baritone
  • Chants for male choir
  • The children ( Franz Fühmann )
  • selected songs
  • The bridge ghost
  • The song of the Franks
  • In the winter night
  • Sleep, little boy
  • See which city

Concerts

  • First concert for piano and orchestra
  • Second concert for piano and orchestra
  • Concerto Piccolo for piano and orchestra
  • Concerto for violin and orchestra
  • Concertino for piano and orchestra

literature

  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 242.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Sächsische Zeitung of October 12, 2009 (accessed on January 6, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Pick, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothenburg / Upper Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 2009
Place of death Leipzig