Konrad Meister

Konrad Meister (born July 30, 1930 , † June 27, 2002 in Hanover ) was a German pianist and professor of piano playing.

Meister was the son of a writer and publisher and a pianist. After finishing school, he passed the bookselling assistant examination in 1951, and in 1956 he temporarily took over his father's publishing and printing company. At the same time, from 1945 he was a young piano student at the former Heidelberg University of Music , which has now merged with the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts . He was then a student at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold from 1953 to 1956. In 1956 he passed the artistic maturity examination with Conrad Hansen . In 1973 he had already given 500 concerts. From 1975 he became a teacher for piano methodology and became deputy director of the music academy in Heidelberg. From 1975 to 1995 he worked full-time as a pianist, pedagogue and methodology researcher in Hanover , most recently as professor for piano at the local music college. Meister was one of the first researchers to study externally recognizable movements of famous pianists on the basis of video recordings.

His sons are Cornelius Meister , pianist and general music director in Heidelberg and Stuttgart, and Rudolf Meister , pianist and rector of the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts .