Rosalinde Haas

Rosalinde Haas (born January 7, 1932 in Schramberg , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German organist.

Life

Rosalinde Haas' father was an organist in the church in Schramberg. She learned to play the organ at the service at the age of seven. At the age of 16 she attended the Stuttgart Music Academy and completed her studies with Fernando Germani at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. She studied with Helmut Walcha in Frankfurt am Main and later at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena - at a time when there were many aspiring musicians in Siena: among them Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli , George Enescu , Gaspar Cassadó , Nathan Milstein and Paul van Kempen .

Haas' concert repertoire includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach , César Franck , Charles-Marie Widor , Max Reger , Marcel Dupré , Maurice Duruflé , Olivier Messiaen and compositions by Paul Hindemith and Max Baumann . With the support of her husband, the musicologist Peter Krams, she recorded all of Max Reger's organ works, including arrangements of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier for organ. Haas has taught, among other things, as a professor of organ at the Robert Schumann Academy in Düsseldorf, where she taught students how to use their feet “as if they were Speedy Gonzales ”. She spent a large part of her professional career in Frankfurt am Main, where she worked as an organist in the Leonhardskirche (1956–1980) and then in Frankfurt-Niederrad (1980–1992). Since retiring from active service, Haas has played the organ and harpsichord at home, concentrating on Bach's Art of Fugue , the Goldberg Variations and the Leipzig chorales .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Rosalinde Haas biography on last.fm, accessed on October 24, 2018.
2. ↑ St. Jakobus Frankfurt: The organ in Mother of Good Advice , accessed on October 24, 2018.
3. ↑ Historie-Arbeitskreis-Glashütten Taunus: Brief Vita , accessed on October 24, 2018.