Karl-Heinz Schlueter
Karl-Heinz Schlueter (born March 5, 1920 in Torgau ; † December 20, 1995 in Würzburg ) was a German pianist .
Life
Karl-Heinz Schlüter studied from 1931 to 1937 in Hanover with Rudolf Krasselt and Clara Spitta, then until 1940 at the Berlin Music Academy with Carl Adolf Martienssen . He passed his concert exam with distinction. In the Berlin press he had introduced himself "in Beethoven's G major piano concerto at the age of 20 as a thoroughly ready-made pianist of the greatest style."
This was followed by seven years as a soldier and prisoner of war until 1947. He then perfected himself in Walter Gieseking's master class and became a lecturer at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold . In 1949 he received the Chopin Prize in Berlin / Warsaw, and in 1950 the Busoni Prize in Bolzano . Concerts with well-known orchestras and conductors followed, including Robert Heger ( Symphony Orchestra of the NDR Hamburg ), Hermann Abendroth ( Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra ), Fritz Lehmann ( Bamberg Symphony Orchestra ), Ernest Bour (SWF Orchestra), Wilhelm Schüchter (NWD) Philharmonie) , Werner Andreas Albert ( Munich Philharmonic ) at home and abroad.
His teaching activities as a lecturer took him from the Braunschweig Music School, via the Osnabrück Conservatory and the Nuremberg Conservatory to the University of Würzburg (from 1985 to 1988). He was also a sought-after member of the jury at national (e.g. Jugend musiziert ) and international piano competitions (e.g. International Chopin Competition 1955).
He performed as a piano duo with his son Michael Schlueter . The foundation stone for the careers of Karl-Heinz and Michael Schlueter was laid by chance in 1967: at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln , a broadcast date for a live broadcast on two pianos “Artists in North Rhine-Westphalia” was available at short notice. Karl-Heinz and Michael Schlueter played works by Johannes Brahms (Haydn Variations), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (D major Sonata), Frédéric Chopin (Rondo C major) and Claude Debussy (En blanc et noir). In the period that followed, up to 1995, the Schlüter duo appeared on all the important chamber music stages in Germany and abroad (including Europe, the Middle East) and cultivated the classical and romantic repertoire as well as modern literature. There are a number of recordings, including the complete works of Franz Schubert , Max Reger and Paul Hindemith .
The duo was a regular guest on European radio stations in Switzerland, Austria and Germany and was mainly dedicated to contemporary music, e.g. B. by Jean Françaix , Ernst-Lothar von Knorr , Rudolf Kelterborn , Martin Christoph Redel and many others. From 1982 to 1992 Karl-Heinz and Michael Schlüter conducted the annual master class for piano duo in Würzburg .
With Josef Trumm (violoncello) and Cyrill Kopatschka (violin) he performed as a Chopin Trio. He founded the Osnabrück Piano Trio with Marcel Charpentier (violin) and Eckard Stahl (cello). Together with Ludwig Müller-Gronau (violin), Wilhelm Isselmann (viola) and Werner Thomas-Mifune (violoncello) he formed the West German Piano Quartet.
The pianists Magdalena Galka and Ann-Helena Schlüter and the violinist Johanna Schlüter are his daughters.
Web links
- Sound carrier by Karl-Heinz Schlüter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography on magdalena-galka.de (PDF file; 31 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Magdalena Galka ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at weltklassik.de
- ↑ Duo was in a class of its own In: Main-Post online from July 20, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schlueter, Karl-Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Torgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1995 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |