Stefan Mickisch

Stefan Mickisch 2013

Stefan Mickisch (born July 5, 1962 in Schwandorf ) is a German pianist , composer and musicologist .

education

Stefan Mickisch grew up in a family of musicians and received early support. He first learned to play the piano, later also the violin and organ. After graduating from high school, he studied piano (Erich Appel) and violin (Ulf Klausenitzer) at the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg, as well as composition , music and opera history. In 1982 he passed the musical matriculation examination. He continued further studies, including a. with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling ( Hanover University of Music ), master classes with Oleg Maisenberg (Vienna), Bruno Leonardo Gelber (Munich) and with Sergiu Celibidache (Mainz). From 1987 to 1991 he studied with Leonid Brumberg at the Vienna Conservatory .

Musical activities

• from 1984 recordings for radio and television
• 1993 Foundation of the "Robert Schumann Society Bavaria", management until 2000
• from 1993 international appearances as pianist and accompanist
• from 1998 introductory lectures at the Bayreuth Festival , 2002–2013 independently
• 2004 composition "Tristanfantasie"

The conversation concerts , in which he acts as a moderator and pianist, developed into Mickisch's specialty .

Awards

• 1972–1982: 1st prizes in piano at " Jugend musiziert ": 5 times in the Upper Palatinate, 3 times in Bavaria, 2 times at the national competition
• 1981–1985: Winner of international piano competitions in Milan ("Alfred Cortot"), Athens ("Maria Callas"), Montevideo ("Ciudad") and winner of the Critics' Prize at the "Maraton Pianistico Madrid"
• 1984–1991: Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
• 1992: East Bavaria Culture Prize
• 1993: Scholarship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (USA), again in 1995
• 1996: Nomination for the German Record Award
• Honorary memberships in Richard Wagner Associations (RWV) : Richard Wagner Society of Washington DC (1996), RWV Augsburg (2006), Swiss Richard Wagner Society (2007)

media

watch TV

year	TV channel	title	Film writers	annotation
2010	BBC	Wagner & Me	Stephen Fry	British actor and writer Stephen Fry addresses the question "May a Jew love Wagner?" to
2013	3 sat	Wagner: The ring	Eric Schulz	For Richard Wagner's 200th birthday / four-part documentary
2013	BR-alpha	Stefan Mickisch visits the alpha forum	Werner Reuss	In conversation with Roland Spiegel
2014	3 sat	Richard Strauss - the misunderstood visionary	Christoph Engel, Dietmar Klumm	For the 150th birthday of Richard Strauss
2014	ServusTV	Richard Strauss - At the end of the rainbow	Eric Schulz	For the 150th birthday of Richard Strauss
2014	Brutal TV Barcelona	Wagner: The Rhine gold	n / a
2016	Arte	Epochs of Music History - The Romanticism	Dag Freyer	Richard Wagner and Ludwig II
2017	ServusTV	One two Three! The waltz factory Strauss & Sons	Eric Schulz	Documentation for the 150th birthday of the "Walzerfabrik"

DVD

number	year	composer	title
1	2015	Richard Wagner	The Ring of the Nibelung - Box with 6 DVDs and English subtitles
2	2017	Richard Strauss	Der Rosenkavalier - Stefan Mickisch plays and explains

CD

number	year	composer	title
1	1991	Max Reger	Max Reger (Variations and Fugue on a Theme by JS Bach Op.81) C. Franck (Prelude, Coral et Fugue) JS Bach (Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor WK I, chorale prelude “Jesu Meine Freude”) Stefan Mickisch (improvisation and Gap)
2	1994	Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel	Chamber music (piano trio in D minor, piano quartet in A flat major) with the "fanny mendelssohn trio"
3	1995	Richard Wagner	Wagner paraphrases I Hugo Wolf (on "Walküre" and "Meistersinger"), Stefan Mickisch (on "Götterdämmerung")
4th	1999	Richard Wagner	On Wagner's Steinway in Haus Wahnfried (Paraphrases II) Own paraphrases and transcriptions of Wagner's operas
5-8	2000	Richard Wagner	The Ring of the Nibelung (8 CDs) (1st version) Das Rheingold - Die Walküre - Siegfried - Götterdämmerung
9	2000	Richard Wagner	Tristan and Isolde (1st version)
10	2001	Robert Schumann and Jean Paul	The piano music of Robert Schumann, inspired by Jean Paul (incl.Fantasy op. 17/1, Papillons op. 2, Arabesque op. 18, etc.)
11	2001	Richard Wagner	The Flying Dutchman (1st version)
12	2001	Richard Wagner	Lohengrin (1st version)
13	2001	Richard Wagner	The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (1st version)
14th	2001	Richard Wagner	Parsifal (1st version)
15th	2002	Richard Wagner	Tannhauser
16	2002	Richard Wagner	The prohibition of love
17th	2003	Richard Wagner	The Ring Finals (4 transcriptions by Stefan Mickisch)
18th	2004	Richard Wagner	Parsifal (2nd version)
19-22	2004	Richard Wagner	The Ring of the Nibelung (8 CDs) (2nd version) Das Rheingold - Die Walküre - Siegfried - Götterdämmerung
23	2005	Stefan Mickisch	Tristanfantasie (large, three-part transcription fantasy)
24	2005	Richard Strauss	Ariadne on Naxos
25th	2006	Richard Wagner	The fairies
26th	2006	Richard Wagner	Lohengrin (2nd version)
27	2006	Richard Strauss	Elektra
28	2006	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	The Magic Flute
29	2006	Stefan Mickisch	Keys and signs of the zodiac
30th	2007	Richard Wagner	The Flying Dutchman (2nd version)
31	2007	Richard Wagner	Tristan and Isolde (2nd version)
32	2007	Stefan Mickisch	With Wagner through the starry sky (piano recital with your own transcriptions and fantasies through Wagner's opera through all 12 keys)
33	2007	Ludwig van Beethoven	Missa solemnis
34	2008	Richard Wagner	The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (2nd version)
35	2008	Ludwig van Beethoven	9th Symphony (1st version, Beethovenfest Bonn )
36	2008	Eugen d'Albert	Lowlands
37	2008	Jacques Offenbach	Hoffmann's stories
38	2009	Giacomo Puccini	Tosca
39	2009	Richard Wagner	Rienzi
40	2009	Gioachino Rossini	Barber of Seville
41-44	2010	Ludwig van Beethoven	All nine symphonies - box with 8 CDs
45	2011	Richard Strauss	The woman without a shadow
46	2012	Richard Strauss	An alpine symphony
47	2013	Stefan Mickisch	Artist talk (interview) on the Wagner year 2013
48-56	2013	Stefan Mickisch	The Ring of the Nibelung - All 261 leitmotifs
57	2014	Ludwig van Beethoven	Fidelio
58	2014	Richard Strauss	Salome
59	2014	Richard Strauss	The Rosenkavalier
60-62	2016	Erich Wolfgang Korngold	The Dead City - Box with 6 CDs
63	2016	Franz Schreker	The distant sound

literature

• Franz Sichler & Alfred Wolfsteiner (eds.): Famous Schwandorf personalities . Schwandorf 2006, p. 71 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Franz Sichler, Alfred Wolfsteiner: Famous Schwandorf Personalities. Schwandorf 2006, p. 71.
2. ↑ http://www.mickisch.de/index.php?id=133
3. ↑ Honorary Memberships
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ 3sat - May a Jew love Wagner?
6. ↑ Stephen Fry - Wagner & Me
7. ↑ http://www.3sat.de/page/?source=/musik/167700/index.html
8. ↑ https://www.br.de/fernsehen/ard-alpha/sendung/alpha-forum/stefan-mickisch-sendung-100.html
9. ↑ http://www.3sat.de/page/?source=/musik/176722/index.html
10. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ ARTE Documentation - Epochs of Music History (4-part television documentary)
12. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ http://www.mickisch.de/index.php?id=9
14. ↑ http://www.mickisch.de/index.php?id=9

Web links

• Website Stefan Mickisch
• Works by and about Stefan Mickisch in the catalog of the German National Library