Peter Waldner

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Peter Waldner (born January 13, 1966 in Mals in the South Tyrolean Vinschgau , Italy ) is an organist , harpsichordist , fortepiano player, ensemble leader , specialist in early music , historically informed performance practice and historical keyboard instruments, as well as musicologist and Germanist , who lives in Austria .

Live and act

Waldner comes from Mals in Vinschgau and passed his Matura in 1985 as a student at the Johanneum in Merano . He received his musical training at the Tyrolean State Conservatory under Reinhard Jaud, Hans Kofler, Bojidar Noev and Günther Andergassen and at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Innsbruck under Walter Salmen. He also studied with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam, with Hans van Nieuwkoop and Kees van Houten on the historic organs of Amsterdam, Haarlem, Alkmaar and Helmond, with William Christie in Paris and with Jean-Claude Zehnder at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis . Masterclasses also took him to Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini , Jesper Bøje Christensen , Kenneth Gilbert , Harald Vogel , Pierre Hantaï and Daniel Roth .

Waldner works in Innsbruck as a lecturer for harpsichord, organ, figured bass , stylistics and performance practice of early music at the Tyrolean State Conservatory and at the branch of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, and since 1988 as an organist and church musician in the Mariahilf parish church. His concert activities have taken him to most European countries. As a harpsichordist, organist, clavichord and fortepiano player, as well as ensemble leader, he has been a guest at numerous festivals for early music. Radio recordings were made with ORF, RAI and the Dutch broadcasting company KRO.

Waldner has been recording early music CDs on historical keyboard instruments since 1994 ; they appeared in the self-published, the label Extraplatte Vienna, the ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Tyrol, Vorarlberg and Old ORF Edition Music ) in the CD series music museum of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, the Austrian label fra bernardo and the Belgian label Organroxx . In 2011 he initiated his own CD series Taste Joy , which presents masterpieces and key works of keyboard music from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Early Romantic periods - interpreted exclusively on historical keyboard instruments or their copies.

Waldner is the artistic director of the concert series for early music Innsbruck evening music (1988 to 2013: AbendMusic - Lebensmusik ) and founder of the Tyrolean ensemble for early music vita & anima . He performs regularly as a soloist on the organ, harpsichord, virginal , spinet , clavichord , lute piano and fortepiano; he interprets music from the Renaissance , Baroque , Classical and Early Romantic periods.

Since 2009, Waldner has dedicated himself to the rediscovery of unknown or forgotten baroque music from Tyrol, which is in European music archives, in concerts and CD productions with his ensemble for early music vita & anima and in close cooperation with the music department of the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum, headed by Franz Gratl. Waldner also worked with numerous ensembles and specialists in early music.

Awards

  • 1989: Scholarship from the piano company Bösendorfer Vienna
  • 1991: Music Promotion Prize of the Tyrolean Savings Banks
  • 1995: Jacob Stainer Prize of the State of Tyrol (for services to the interpretation of early music on historical keyboard instruments.)
  • 2004: Ö1 Pasticcio Prize of the Austrian Radio (for the two CDs Orgellandschaft Ritten I & II .)

Discography

The following CD recordings are in chronological order:

  • The choir organ in Stams Abbey ( Andreas Jäger , 1757). South German and Austrian organ music of the 17th and 18th centuries. ORF Tirol, 1994.
  • Life music. English, Italian and German harpsichord music of the 16th and 17th centuries on a harpsichord after Giovanni Battista Giusti by Cornelis Bom. Self-published, 1995.
  • Organ music by Johann Sebastian Bach . At the Pirchner organ of the Mariahilf Landscape Parish Church in Innsbruck. Scenic parish of Mariahilf. 2 CDs. 1996.
  • Michael Strobl's baldachin organ on the Churburg (1559). Secular and sacred organ music of the 16th century. ORF Tirol, 1997.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber : Missa Bruxellensis XXIII vocum. La Capella Reial de Catalunya & Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall . Alia Vox, 1999. (World premiere recording.)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations . On the harpsichord (c. 1740) attributed to Gottfried Silbermann in the Musikinstrumentenmuseum Berlin. ORF Tirol, 2000.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Requiem à 15 in Concerto. La Capella Reial de Catalunya & Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall. Alia Vox, 2002. (World premiere recording.)
  • Johann Jacob Ammann: Arias for soprano, strings and basso continuo. Katerina Beranova (soprano), Ensemble Plus. ORF Vorarlberg, 2002.
  • Organ landscape Ritten I & II. On eight historic organs in the municipality of Ritten above Bolzano. 2 CDs. Extra plate, 2004.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Sonatas & Variations. On a clavichord after Christian Gottlob Hubert von Koen Vermeij. Extra plate, 2006.
  • Bach's lute piano . Johann Sebastian Bach: Works for Lute Clavier BWV 995, 997, 998, 1006a. ORF-Edition Alte Musik, 2007.
  • vita & anima - A cross-section through 10 concert years. Live concert recordings from 1999–2009. vita & anima. 2 CDs. Self-published / association “Early Music in Innsbruck-Mariahilf”, 2010.
  • Like the deer screams for fresh water. Motets and canzons by Tyrolean baroque composers. Leopold von Plawenn: Five sacred motets from Sacrae Nymphae duplicium Aquarium , Ulm 1672. Ingenuin Molitor: Six canzons from Fasciculus Musicals , Innsbruck 1668, two canzons for organ from Brixen organ book , 17th century. Vita & anima: Sabine Neumann (alt), Satoshi Mitsukoshi (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Judith Steenbrink and Maite Larburu (baroque violins), Arno Jochem (viola da gamba and violone), Andreas Arend (theorbo), Peter Waldner (positive organ). Musikmuseum 6 (CD series of the Tyrolean State Museums), 2010. (World premiere recording.)
  • The canopy organ on the Churburg (1559). Secular organ music of the Renaissance and the early Baroque on the baldachin organ by Michael Strobl. Taste joy 1st self-published, 2011.
  • The Italian Renaissance organ (organo di legno, anonymous, around 1580) in the Silver Chapel of the Innsbruck Court Church . Italian, South German and Spanish organ music from the Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Musikmuseum 11 (CD series of the Tyrolean State Museums), 2011. (First available CD recording of the precious historical instrument.)
  • John come kiss me now - From love. A journey through the keyboard music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque: English, Dutch, German and Italian keyboard works on the theme of love for the virginal , lute polygon and harpsichord (Klemens Kleitsch, Kiefersfelden). Self-published, Taste Joy 2, 2012.
  • Franz Schubert Late Piano Works. Impromptus in C minor, E flat major & G flat major D. 899 (1827), Eight Valses sentimentales in C major from D. 779 (1825), Grazer Galopp in C major D. 925 (1825), Gallop & eight Eccosaisen D. 735 (1825), Zwei Deutsche Tänze D. 841 (1825), Piano Sonata in G major (Fantasy Sonata) D. 894 (1826), Piano Sonata in B flat major D. 960 (1828), Piano pieces in E flat minor and E flat major D. 946 (1828) on the two pianos after Michael Rosenberger, around 1805 and Jacob Bertsche, around 1815 (Robert A. Brown, Oberndorf near Salzburg). 2 CDs. Self-published, Taste Joy 3, 2012.
  • The great joy of the little princess. A new fairy tale with early music by Verena Wolf and Peter Waldner. An audio picture book with CD for children from 4 years. Music by William Byrd , Giles Farnaby , Thomas Morley , anonymous English composers, Hans Leo Hassler and Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger . Verena Wolf (illustrations and transverse flute), Peter Waldner (lute polygonal by Klemens Kleitsch, Kiefersfelden). Studia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2012.
  • Bach's mentors. Partitas and suites by Georg Böhm , Dieterich Buxtehude and Jan Adam Reincken on a two-manual harpsichord after Johannes Ruckers (petit ravalement, 1624), by Matthias Griewisch, Bammental, an octave spinet after Samuel Biedermann (early 17th century), by Matthias Griewisch, and on a muselar after Andreas Ruckers the Younger (1644) by Herbert Kuen, Götzens (1983). Self-published, Taste Joy 4, 2012.
  • Ingenuin Molitor: Spiritual motets (from: Fasciculus musicalis , 1668). vita & anima - la dolcezza: Maria Erlacher and Gerlinde Sämann (soprano), Markus Flaig (baritone), Veronika Skuplik and Maite Larburu (baroque violins), Arno Jochem (viola da gamba and violone), Andreas Arend (theorbo), Peter Waldner ( Organ positive). Musikmuseum 15 (CD series of the Tyrolean State Museums), 2013. (World premiere recording).
  • The organ of the Landhauskapelle zum Heiligen Georg in Innsbruck. German and Austrian Baroque organ music. Self-published, Taste Joy 5, 2013.
  • Johann Kuhnau : The musical quack and harpsichord works. Katharina Brenner speaks selected passages from Johann Kuhnau's satirical musician novel (1700); Peter Waldner plays the composer's harpsichord works. Self-published, Taste Joy 6, 2013.
  • Francesco Antonio Bonporti : Motetti a voce sola (1668) & trio sonatas. vita & anima: Melanie Hirsch (soprano), Maren Ries and Volker Möller (baroque violins), Arno Jochem (violone), Heidelore Schauer (Salterio), Andreas Arend (theorbo), Peter Waldner (positive organ). Musikmuseum 19 (CD series of the Tyrolean State Museums), 2014.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach organ and harpsichord works . Prelude & Fugue in G major BVW 541, second part of the ClavierUebung (1735): Concerto according to Italian gusto in F major BWV 971, overture according to French style in B minor BWV 831 and Partite diverse sopra “Sey greeted, Jesus good” BWV 768 on the organ of the scenic parish church Mariahilf in Innsbruck (Orgelbau Pirchner, 1986) and on a two-manual French harpsichord after Pascal Taskin, 1769 (Keith Hill, 1999). Self-published, Taste Joy 7, 2015.
  • Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani: Psalm settings, Lauretanian litany & sacred motets (from: Salmi, Motetti e Litanie de Beata Maria Vergine op. 5 , Bologna 1688). Introduttione prima & Symphonia prima (from: Capricci armonici da chiesa e da camera op. 4 , Venice 1678). vita & anima: Maria Erlacher and Nele Gramß (soprano), Markus Flaig (bass baritone), Gottfried von der Goltz , Amandine Bernhardt (baroque violins), Annkathrin Beller (baroque violoncello), Andreas Arend (theorbo), Peter Waldner (positive organ). Musikmuseum 24 (CD series from the Tyrolean State Museums), 2016.
  • Georg Arnold: Sacred motets (from: Liber II […] Sacrarum Cantionum , Innsbruck 1661) & instrumental works (from: Canzoni, ariae et sonatae , Innsbruck 1659). Ingenuin Molitor: Spiritual motets (from: Fasciculus musicalis , Innsbruck 1668). vita & anima: Melanie Hirsch and Maria Bernius (soprano), Matthias Helm (bass), Jolanta Sosnowska and Cecilia Bernardini (baroque violins), Arno Jochem (baroque violoncello & violone), Andreas Arend (theorbo), Peter Waldner (positive organ). Musikmuseum 32 (CD series from the Tyrolean State Museums), 2017.
  • Ex Bibliotheca Mariaemontana - Baroque keyboard music from the music library of the Benedictine monastery Marienberg near Burgeis. Keyboard works by Alessandro Poglietti, Georg Muffat, Georg Friedrich Händel, Jan Zach a. P. Marian Stecher OSB on a two-manual harpsichord based on Christian Vater (Andrea Restelli, Milan 2016), a historical clavichord (Joseph Lusser, Brixen, early 19th century) owned by the Marienberg monastery, the historical choir organ of the basilica of Stams monastery ( Andreas Jäger, Füssen 1757) and the historic organ of the Marienberg monastery church (Josef Aigner, Schwaz 1866). Musikmuseum 34 (CD series of the Tyrolean State Museums), 2018.
  • Styles nuovo . CD 1: Early baroque Christmas music from Tyrol and Italy. Sacred motets by Christoph Sätzl, Johann Stadlmayr , Ambrosius Reiner, Jacopo Finetti, Felice Anerio , Orfeo Vecchi and Vincenzo Pace (from: Promptuarium musicum , Munich 1627). Instrumental works by Bernardo Storace (from: Selva di varie compositioni d'intavolatura per cimbalo ed organo , Venice 1664). Vocal ensemble Odhecaton à 5, Reinhild Waldek (baroque harp), Peter Waldner (harpsichord and positive organ). CD 2: Vespers of Mary in Bressanone Cathedral Anno Domini 1641 (reconstruction). Sacred vocal works by Christoph Sätzl and Johann Stadlmayr. Instrumental works by Dario Castello. La Venexiana à 8, Prishna Ensemble, Peter Waldner (organ positive and direction). 2 CDs. Musikmuseum 41 (CD series from the Tyrolean State Museums), 2019.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach Toccatas & Suites on the Clavichord vol. 1. Toccatas in C minor BWV 911, in D minor BWV 913 and in G major BWV 916. French suite in C minor BWV 813. Sonata in D minor BWV 964 on the reconstruction of a Bach clavichord after Jacob Adlung (Joris Potvlieghe, Tollembeek 2018). organroxx, 2019.
  • Francisci magnus amor - In memoriam François Badoud. Italian keyboard works of the 16th century by Annibale Padovano, Andrea Antico, Marco Antonio Cavazzoni, Anonymi, Giulio Caccini / Peter Philips, Girolamo Cavazzoni, Antonio Valente, Ruggero Trofeo, Giovanni Picchi, Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni Gabrieli, Giovanni Picchi, Francesco Biancardi, Giovanni Paolo Cima on an original Italian virginal (anonymous, Florence, 16th century) and an original Italian harpsichord (anonymous, Naples, 16th century) from the private collection of historical keyboard instruments of the Swiss psychoanalyst François Badoud. fra bernardo, 2020.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach Sonatas . Sonatas for violin and harpsichord obbligato in B minor BWV 1014, C minor BWV 1017 and G major BWV 1019.Sonata in C major for solo violin BWV 1005. Adagio in G major for solo harpsichord BWV 968 after the Sonata in C major for solo violin BWV 1005. Plamena Nikitassova (baroque violin by Jacob Stainer from the property of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum), Peter Waldner (harpsichord after Johann Heinrich Harraß, Breitenbach in Thuringia, before 1714 by Jürgen Ammer). Musikmuseum 46 (CD series from the Tyrolean State Museums), 2020.
  • Apparatus musico-organisticus - Baroque organ works from Tyrolean sources. South German and Tyrolean organ works by Georg Muffat, Ingenuin Molitor, Anonymus / Stift Stams, Johann Krieger, Johann Philipp Krieger on the historic organs of the parish church of St. Blasius in Taufers in the Münstertal (Johann Caspar Humpel, 1708/1709) and the Reformed Church of St. Florinus in Ramosch in the Engadine (Carlo Prati, 17th century). Musikmuseum 51 (CD series of the Tyrolean State Museums), 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presence on the website of the Tyrolean State Conservatory , accessed on March 16, 2017.
  2. ^ Wilten Abbey: Vita , accessed on December 19, 2014.
  3. ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung: Lyrical and moving keyboard joy , accessed on March 8, 2020.
  4. ↑ Innsbrucker Abendmusik , accessed on December 19, 2014.
  5. ↑ vita & anima. Peter Waldner's website, accessed March 16, 2017 .
  6. ↑ biography. Peter Waldner's website, accessed March 16, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Jakob Stainer Prize ( Memento from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 19, 2014.
  8. ↑ stol.it: Concert with Peter Waldner ( Memento from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 19, 2014.
  9. ↑ CDs. Peter Waldner's website, accessed March 16, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Waldner, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian organist, harpsichord player and fortepiano player, musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Times