Thomas Menrath

Thomas Menrath is a German pianist and university professor .

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Menrath studied school music , history , piano pedagogy in Berlin and Cologne and majored in piano with Astrid Schmidt-Neuhaus and Georg Sava, among others . Completed master classes with György Sebők , among others . He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In addition to his solo activities, he also worked as a chamber musician and as a lied and choir accompanist.

He lectured at the Halle University of Church Music and has been teaching piano at the Berlin University of the Arts since 1994 , where he is a professor. His specialty is the piano methodology of the 1920s and 1930s. He is also the author of articles on piano pedagogy and work interpretation.

Publications (selection)

• Etude. In: Music in the past and present . Subject part, Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel 1995
• The Unteachable as a Methodical Object. Studies on the basic concepts of the piano methodology by Carl Adolf Martienssen . (Dissertation), Wißner Verlag, Augsburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-89639-398-2
• Martienssen, Carl Adolf. In: Music in the past and present . Article, personal section, Bärenreiter, Kassel 2005, ISBN 978-3-7618-1110-8
• Search for clues. Piano methodology as an 'ideology of art' . In: EPTA Documentation 2004/05 , Düsseldorf 2006
• Consciously or Subconsciously? Emotion and control in working studies and interpretation . In: Practicing and making music , 27th year, 03/2010, Mainz 2010
• Sonata movement or adaptation of literary artistic devices? Notes on the interpretation of Chopin's ballad in G minor op.23 . In: Representing and communicating. A manual of musical interpretation . Ed .: Ursula Brandstätter et al., Schott, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-7957-0692-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Menrath in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Berlin University of the Arts: Brief CV of Prof. Dr. Thomas Menrath. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .