Robert Leonardy

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Robert Leonardy (* 1940 in Blankenburg ) is a German pianist and music teacher .

Life

Robert Leonardy comes from a musical family in Saarland and began his pianistic training at the age of 14. His teachers were Fritz Griem and Andor Foldes at the Saarbrücker Musikhochschule , Jean Doyen and Marguerite Long in Paris , and Erich Flinsch at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt am Main .

In 1969 Leonardy took on a teaching assignment for piano at the Rheinisches Konservatorium in Cologne . From 1971 to 2009 he worked as a professor for piano at the Saar University of Music in Saarbrücken. At the same time, in addition to his teaching activities, he developed an active career as a concert pianist at home and abroad. His extensive repertoire soon made him a sought-after soloist in numerous radio, television and CD productions. In addition, he initiated the Saar Music Festival in 1989 , of which he is still the artistic director today.

Leonardy is married and has two children who are also professional musicians, the soprano Eva Maria Leonardy and the organist Bernhard Leonardy .

Honors / awards

Musical awards

  • “Prize of the City of Naples” at the International Casella Competition Naples
  • 2nd prize international music competition in Bardolino-Verona
  • 1st prize at the Paris International Piano Competition
  • Art Prize of the City of Saarbrücken 1976

Further awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 49 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken November 13, 1997, p. 1078 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 313 kB ; accessed on June 20, 2017]).
  2. ^ State press conference Saar
personal data
SURNAME Leonardy, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Blankenburg