Wolfgang Saschowa

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Wolfgang Saschowa (born March 29, 1930 in Berlin ; † October 22, 2010 ibid) was a German pianist and musicologist .

Career

Saschowa grew up as the son of the Berlin-based opera singer Clara Saschowa (née Zosel) and the 1st oboist at the Berliner Schauspielhaus, Max Saschowa († 1945), in Berlin and completed his studies as a major at the University of the Arts (now UdK Berlin ) Piano off. In the following years he devoted himself in particular to the oeuvre of the Russian Expressionists ( Anatol Liadow , Alexander Skrjabin ) and played - partly together with his first wife, the pianist Ingeborg Wunder - both four-hand works and pieces for two pianos, as well as individual works for piano in what was then RIAS (now Deutschlandradio ) and Sender Freies Berlin (SFB, now RBB ). Close friendship and artistic exchange bound him a. a. with the brothers Ludwig and Ingfried Hoffmann and Friedrich Gulda . In the 1960s he took part in master classes with Carlo Zecchi and Maria Tipo and worked a. a. with Adam Harasiewicz and Babette Hierholzer .

In 1978 he and Svjatoslav Richter received the German Record Prize for his recording of the Scriabin etudes.

This was followed by recordings on the radio and for records, which were released until the end of the 1980s.

In concerts with the RSO Berlin and Frankfurt and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, he played a. a. César Franck and Scriabin under the direction of Alun Francis , Eliahu Inbal and Vladimir Ashkenazy .

In his work as a teacher he formed a permanent student body of prize winners at national competitions (Steinway, Jugend musiziert ), u. a. Babette Hierholzer, Alban Gerhardt , Florian de Gelmini , Andreas Wolter . In his apartment in Berlin, as well as friends and colleagues like Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire , musicians from the opera and theater also met. Until shortly before his death in 2010, it was a permanent fixture in the inventory of Berlin concert halls, some of which he had seen from the very beginning ( Philharmonie Berlin opening on October 15, 1963).

See also

List of pianists

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.saschowa.de/
  2. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/nachrechte/wolfgang-saschowa-geb-1930/3585318.html
  3. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2007-60915
  4. ↑ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1022432
  5. ^ Academy of Sciences in Berlin, 1989 yearbook, Walter de Gruyter Verlag Berlin, 1990.
personal data
SURNAME Saschowa, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 2010
Place of death Berlin