Margit Haider-Dean

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Margit Haider-Dechant (born May 5, 1952 ) is an Austrian concert pianist , musicologist and professor .

Career

Haider-Dechant studied pedagogy and piano at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz , where she was supported by a Bösendorfer scholarship. She also completed piano studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and graduated with a diploma. She then studied with Leonard Hokanson in Frankfurt / Main and Vitaly Margulis in Freiburg im Breisgau . In 2005 she became professor for piano at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz and received her doctorate in philosophy after her dissertation with the title Joseph Woelfl -Werkverzeichnis 2009.

In addition to her work in Linz, she also held a visiting professorship from 2001 to 2002 at Mahidol University in Bangkok . Until her retirement in 2014, she led a concert class for piano at the Anton Bruckner Private University. Winners of national and international competitions can be found among her students.

Haider-Dechant gave concerts all over the world. Some of their concerts were broadcast by television and radio stations. She also published numerous recordings. After the CD Wagner for keys was released, Wolfgang Wagner invited her to a concert in the Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth .

Her concert repertoire ranges from the musical baroque to the modern . The works of the 19th century, u. a. Charles-Valentin Alkan , Erik Satie , Groupe des Six , Olivier Messiaen and works of Austrian modernism. In 1990 she gave the first public performance of Alkan 's Concert sans orchester op. 39, which was previously considered unplayable, at the Alkan 1990 Festival in Paris .

The 1-movement Piano Concerto No. 6 in D major in the arrangement by Hermann Dechant, reconstructed by Nicholas Cook from sketches by Ludwig van Beethoven , was premiered in 2015 by Haider-Dechant in Bonn .

Haider-Dechant is President of the International Joseph Woelfl Society (IJWG), which she co-founded in 2011, and Chairwoman of the Joseph Woelfl Society in Bonn, which was founded in 2015 .

She is married to Hermann Dechant .

Publications (selection)

Piano solo

  • Balduin Sulzer : Toccata a. Miniatures, Margit Haider, piano, Preiserrecords SPR 145, LP
  • Balduin Sulzer: Notices for Piano, Margit Haider, piano, Preiserrecords SPR 218, LP
  • Balduin Sulzer: Sonate rhapsodique, CD Radio Upper Austria
  • Wagner for keys, APOLLON music office CI 20.006, CD
  • Mozart's student, APOLLON music officer CI 20.007, CD
  • Woelfl & Alkane. Two giants of the piano, APOLLON music officer CI 20.013, CD

World premieres of concerts

  • Balduin Sulzer: Concerto for piano and wind octet. Ensemble Octogon, Margit Haider, piano, Upper Austrian Collegiate Concerts 1993, Kremsmünster Abbey
  • Joel Diermaier (born 1964): “Per sonare”, a conglomerate for wind instruments, strings and piano based on Alban Berg's Sonata op. 1.: Festival for contemporary music in Nizhny Novgorod , Russia, 2008. Orchestra of the “Glinka Conservatory” Music Academy, Margit Haider-Dechant, piano
  • Arnold Schönberg : Concerto for Piano and Orchestra op.42, Austrian premiere at the Arnold Schönberg Center Vienna, 2008
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: First performance of the Piano Concerto No. 6, reconstructed from Beethoven's sketches by Nicholas Cook and Hermann Dechant

Awards

  • 1998: Appointment as honorary member of the Richard-Wagner-Verband Barcelona.
  • 2000: Award of honorary professorship by the Russian Federation.
  • 2015: Awarded the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. life data
  2. The Unheard Beethoven. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  3. ^ Piano Concerto No 6 - Apollon Musikoffizin Bonn. In: Apollon Musikoffizin. Retrieved April 29, 2019 (German).
  4. Music in nature - the couple lives in the Joseph-Woelfl-Haus in Lessenich. August 4, 2017. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
  5. ^ Piano Concerto No 6 - Apollon Musikoffizin Bonn. In: Apollon Musikoffizin. Accessed September 2, 2019 (German).
  6. ^ Province of Upper Austria - Document view. Retrieved January 11, 2020 .