Kurt Leimer
Kurt Leimer (born September 7, 1920 in Wiesbaden ; † November 20, 1974 in Vaduz ) was a German pianist , composer and piano teacher.
Life
After attending grammar school in Wiesbaden, Leimer received a scholarship for the Spangenberg Conservatory in Wiesbaden in 1936. Then he went to the Berlin Conservatory with another scholarship. In 1938 he made his public debut in Berlin . Towards the end of the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was taken prisoner in Livorno in 1944 . Under the impact of the war, his Concerto for the Left Hand was written in one movement, which Kurt Leimer premiered in 1953 with the Vienna Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan . Richard Strauss dedicated his Panathenaic procession for piano and orchestra to him. In 1953 Kurt Leimer was appointed to the Mozarteum Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Salzburg , where he held a professorship until the end of his life. In 1955 he wrote his Piano Concerto No. 4, which was premiered with Leopold Stokowski at Carnegie Hall in New York . In July 1969, Stokowski conducted Leimer's 4th piano concerto in a television production by Saarland Radio , editorial director: Peter Rocholl , with Leimer as soloist.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Television archive database (FESAD) of the Saarländischer Rundfunk
Web links
- Works by and about Kurt Leimer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Kurt Leimer Foundation
- Leimer, Kurt. Hessian biography. (As of February 12, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leimer, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist, composer and piano teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1974 |
| Place of death | Vaduz |