Robert Hill (musician)
Robert Hill (born November 6, 1953 in Cebu City , Philippines ) is an American harpsichordist , musicologist and university professor . Since 1990 he has been teaching at the University of Music Freiburg as a professor for historical keyboard instruments and historical performance practice .
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Robert Hill was a student of Gustav Leonhardt and Anneke Uittenbosch at the Amsterdam Conservatory until 1974 . He then studied musicology at Harvard University , where he in 1987 with a musicological work on Johann Sebastian Bach's early compositions for keyboard instruments doctorate was. From 1986 to 1990 he taught at Duke University in Durham (North Carolina) .
He is one of the most important practitioners of historical keyboard instruments ( harpsichord , clavichord , fortepiano ) and has given numerous concerts and recordings in recent decades (with Reinhard Goebel , Dmitri Sitkovetsky and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra ). His brother Keith Hill is a manufacturer of historic keyboard instruments in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Both are strongly committed to the reconstruction of the lute piano .
As a piano player he deals with the keyboard repertoire from around 1600 to 1900, performed on all common keyboard instruments, from the harpsichord, clavichord and lute (bowel-related harpsichord) to the fortepiani of the Mozart, Schubert and Schumann times, as well as the modern piano. As a musician, Robert Hill attaches particular importance to the revival of past music-making practices in the most creative way possible. Its aim is to regain the freedom that outstanding musicians of the past were allowed to enjoy in their own musical culture. He understands the task of historical performance practice as an area in which gaps in knowledge in the historical image must be overcome through intuition and fantasy.
Hill is head of the Institute for Historical Performance Practice at the Freiburg University of Music.
In 1982 he received the Erwin Bodky Award for Early Music.
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert Hill in the catalog of the German National Library
- Robert Hill on the website of the Freiburg University of Music
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hill, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hill, Robert Stephen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American harpsichordist, musicologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cebu City , Philippines |