Peter Leisegang
Peter Leisegang (* 1952 in Wiesbaden ) is a German - Swiss cellist and university professor.
Life
Leisegang received his first cello lessons at the age of nine. During his high school years he already gave concerts in the Berlin Philharmonic and was the first prize winner of " Jugend musiziert " several times . He went on concert tours to France , played in Prague and made radio recordings with Südwestfunk .
In 1973 he obtained the teaching and concert qualification diploma from Gottfried Kleinig at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz , and in 1975 he obtained the soloist diploma with distinction from Stanislav Apolin at the Lucerne Conservatory . He then gave concerts in Australia as the official representative of Switzerland and did a lot of international concerts as a chamber musician and soloist. From 1979 to 2000 he was soloist and solo cellist with the Festival Strings Lucerne .
In 1975 Leisegang became a lecturer and later professor for cello, chamber music and music didactics at the Lucerne School of Music, also taught at the Lucerne School of Music, and was a lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts from 1993 to 1999 . From 1990 to 1996 he taught master classes at the Music Academy in Danzig and the Liszt School of Music in Weimar . In 2017 he retired in Lucerne.
Peter Leisegang was one of the first to support the performance of Luigi Boccherini's concerts in their original version. Numerous radio and television recordings bear witness to this. His book “Methodical Guide for Violoncello Lessons” is one of the standard works in teaching literature for cello.
He regularly appears in the cello duo with his wife Katrin Mettler , with whom he has four sons.
Discography (excerpt)
- Joseph Haydn : Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major. Hob. VIIb: 1
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach : Concerto for Violoncello in A minor, Wq 170
- Herbert Willi : Concert
- Pablo Casals : Song of the Birds
- Edvard Grieg : Sonata for violoncello and piano in A minor, Op. 36
- Robert Schumann : Fantasiestücke Op. 73 for violoncello and piano
- Bohuslav Martinů : Variations on a Slovak Theme H 378
- Paul Hindemith : Sonata op.11
publication
- “Methodical Guide for Violoncello Lessons”, PAN Verlag (1989), ISBN 978-3907073285
Awards
- 1976: Edwin Fischer Prize
- 1986: Recognition award from the city of Lucerne
Web links
- Peter Leisegang on the website of the University of Lucerne , accessed on September 10, 2014.
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- ↑ Peter Leisegang's website ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 10, 2014.
- ^ S. Fischer publishing house (Frankfurt, Main), Mario von Baratta: Der Fischer Weltalmanach. Fischer Bücherei 1978, p. 538.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leisegang, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Swiss cellist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |