Roland Götz
Roland Götz (* 1939 in Munich ) is a German organist and harpsichordist from Augsburg .
Life and artistic career
Roland Götz took piano lessons from Maria Royer as a child. As a high school student he studied harmony and counterpoint with Alfred von Beckerath as a scholarship holder of the Waltershausen Seminar in Munich . From 1957 to 1962 he worked as an organist at various Munich churches. At the same time he was Kapellmeister student of the First Bavarian State Kapellmeister Prof. Meinhard von Zallinger-Thurn.
1962 to 1969 he worked as a cantor at the Fugger Castle Church in Kirchheim in Swabia ; there he installed the series "Cedern Hall Concerts at Kirchheim Castle".
In 1972 he moved to Augsburg and founded the "studio XVII augsburg". With this, he realized a series of thematic concerts (over 160 projects to date), interpretation seminars and a record label that has won several awards.
As a specialist in keyboard music from Gothic to the gallant period, he gave and continues to give many concerts at home and abroad, for example at the Berliner Festwochen , the Landshuter Hofmusiktage , the days of early music in Herne , the Antwerpse Muziekdagen, the Antichi Organi festival the province of Varese, the Festival d'Orgue d'Aubenas en Ardeche, at "Organo e cimbalo" in Lichtenhagen and the Lahden Kansainvälinen Urkuviikko in Finland , the festival "Organistico Città di Treviso", the DIPOT 2000 in Prague , the Concentus Moraviae, the cultural summer of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Berlin / Brandenburg Organ Festival; Götz was also celebrated in Japan .
Roland Götz cultivates (in concerts and recordings) intensively with historical organs . He works a lot with broadcasters (also as a co-producer ) , and concerts have been broadcast by him again and again. In the context of the Mozart Festival in Augsburg, Götz is repeatedly represented with projects from his “studio XVII augsburg”.
repertoire
Götz plays organ and harpsichord music from many Spanish, English and Italian areas, as well as French clavecin literature. He plays German from Gothic , Renaissance , Baroque and gallant times - apart from the usual concert routine.
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| SURNAME | Götz, Roland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organist and harpsichordist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |