Karl Bergemann (pianist)

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Karl Bergemann (* 12. February 1934 ; † 29. September 1992 in Hannover ) was a German pianist and sight reading -Virtuose from Hannover. Today the Karl Bergemann sight-seeing competition at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media is named after him.

Life

Karl Bergemann was born in Hanover as the first of two children to Hans and Charlotte Bergemann. His parents divorced three years later and he and his younger sister Johanna grew up with his mother.

After starting school in 1940, he began taking piano lessons with the chamber musician Georg Steinmeyer that same year . Three years later he received a scholarship to attend the Hanover Conservatory . In the summer of 1943, however, the music school was destroyed during the war and moved to Einbeck . At the instigation of the music school, Karl Bergemann also moved to Einbeck, where he then attended the secondary school. After the war ended in 1945, Karl Bergemann returned to Hanover and in the autumn of the same year went to the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hanover , where he received his secondary school leaving certificate in 1951 . He then began full-time piano studies at the Academy for Music and Theater (today's University of Music, Theater and Media Hanover ) with Walter Höhn, Walter Bohle and Carl Weiss. In 1954 he switched to Conrad Hansen's piano class at the Detmold University of Music and in 1959 to the Hamburg University of Music . However, at the time he was not graduating. The reason for this was his extensive concert activity. He obtained his degree in an exam organized for him at the Hanover University of Music, Theater and Media in 1978.

During his studies he worked as a répétiteur in the Hanoverian choir and as a regular accompanist to the “Young Artists' Concerts” at the NDR-Funkhaus Hannover. Since 1952 he has been a permanent companion of the Hanover Boys Choir on its tours as a soloist and accompanist, as in 1969 in Paris and Hanover with Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.

In 1963 he won first prize in the international radio competition in Munich in the category “ Prima Vista Game ” and was hired as a companion for the annual competitions in Munich for two years. In 1964 he received the “Lower Saxony Promotion Prize”. Due to his success, he became a lecturer for chamber music accompaniment and Prima Vista playing at the State University of Music in Hamburg in 1964 , where he worked until September 1973. Since 1972 he has had a teaching position at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media in the subjects of piano, Prima Vista playing , composition and ear training . He was appointed professor on November 26, 1982. He died on September 29, 1992 after a serious illness.

Repetition activity

As a pianist, Karl Bergemann mainly worked in the areas of accompaniment and chamber music .

He has worked particularly intensively with the following artists:

Discography (selection)

  • “Schilflieder” - Thomas Pfeiffer (baritone), Georg Meerwein (oboe), Anton Weigert (viola), Karl Bergemann (piano) - released 1980 - Audite
  • “Handel, Debussy, Brahms” - Andreas Röhn (violin), Karl Bergemann (piano) - released 1969 - Deutsche Grammophon
  • "Music for oboe, english horn and piano" - Georg Meerwein (english horn, oboe), Karl Bergemann (piano) - released 1974 - metronome music
  • “Romantic Choral Works” - Girls Choir Hannover , Ludwig Rutt (conductor) Karl Bergemann (piano) - released 1987 - EMI
  • “Herrenhausen Concert” - Peter Martin (flute), Karl Bergemann (harpsichord) - released 1974 - Leuenhagen & Paris

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Website of the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  2. ↑ In: Hannover Boys Choir Choir Magazine , 10th Edition, 2011. Accessed March 25, 2014.
  3. ↑ [2] . Website ARD, Chronicle of ARD. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Bergemann, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover , Lower Saxony
DATE OF DEATH 29th September 1992
Place of death Hanover