Rudolf Fischer (musician)

Rudolf Karl Fischer ( born July 13, 1913 in Leipzig, † July 29, 2003 in Leipzig ) was a German pianist, music educator and professor at the Musikhochschule Leipzig.

Fischer was from 1948 to 1973 Rector of the Music Academy in Leipzig. He initiated in 1964 the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition at the Bach Archive Leipzig and was also president until 1973 of this prestigious competition. From 1972 he led the first piano master class in the GDR. In 1973, he received a full professorship. In the personnel and appointment policies he represented the line of the SED.

Fischer was 1968-1974 President of the Geneva " Association Européenne de Conservatoire, Academies de Musique et Music Colleges ", 1974, he was appointed as its Honorary President. In 1982 he became Vice- President of the Johann- Sebastian -Bach - Committee of the GDR.

Rudolf Fischer has performed among others with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Staatskapelle Dresden, played a numerous recordings, radio and television and was a member of the jury of many international music competitions. He was also a member of the Zwickau Schumann Society and the New Leipzig Bach Society.

His son is the Piano Professor Johannes Fischer ( * 1936).

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver ( 1958), Gold (1965 )
• Honor Clasp to the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold ( 1983)
• Art Prize of the GDR
• Art Prize of the City of Leipzig
• Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1843-1847) | Henry Conrad Schleinitz (1847-1881) | Otto Günther (1881-1897) | Carl Reinecke (1897-1902) | Nikisch (1902-1907) | Stephan Krehl (1907-1924) | Max von Pauer (1924-1932) | Walther Davisson (1932-1942) | Johann Nepomuk David (1942-1945) | Henry Schachtebeck (1945-1948) | Rudolf Fischer (1948-1973) | Gustav Schmahl (1973-1984) | Peter Herrmann (1984-1987) | Werner Felix (1987-1990) | Siegfried Thiele (1990-1997) | Christoph Krummenacher (1997-2003) | Konrad grains (2003-2006) | Robert Ehrlich ( since 2006)

Georg Eismann, Hans Storck, Anne Rose Schmidt (1964 ) | Charles Laux, Lore Fischer ( 1965) | Daniel Shitomirski, Dieter Zechlin (1966 ) | Olivier Alain ( 1967) | Sviatoslav Richter (1968 ) | Peter Schreier, Herbert Schulze ( 1969) | Dmitri Bashkirov, Martin Schoppe (1970 ) | Günther body, Tatiana Nikolaeva (1971 ) | Ekkehard Otto, Maria Maxakowa (1972 ) | Emil Gilels, Elisabeth Breul (1973 ) | Amadeus Webersinke, Nelly Akopjan (1974 ) | Sara Dolukhanova, Hélène Boschi (1975 ) | Sigrid Kehl, Elisso Virsaladze (1976 ) | Rudolf Kehrer, Herbert Kaliga (1977 ) | Gertraud Geissler, Hans Joachim Köhler (1978 ) | Hanne -Lore Kuhse, Frantisek Rauch ( 1979) | Theo Adam, Miklós Forrai ( 1980) | Kurt Masur, Halina Czerny- Stefańska (1981 ) | Mitsuko Shirai, Peter Rosel (1982 ) | Rudolf Fischer, Eva Fleischer ( 1983) | Gustáv Papp, Dezso Ránki (1984 ) | Pawel Lisizian, Jacob Latins (1985 ) | Jörg Demus, Gerd Nauhaus (1986 ) | Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau (1987 ) | Albert Hofmann (1988 ) | Pavel Egorov, Bernard Ringeissen (1989 ) | Hartmut Holl, Günther Müller (1990 ) | Joan Chissell (1991 ) | Abegg Trio, Gisela Schäfer ( 1992) | Jozef De Beenhouwer (1993 ) | Wolfgang Sawallisch (1994 ) | Hans Heinz Schneeberger, Dieter Gerhardt Worm (1995 ) | Nancy B. Reich, Bernhard R. Appel ( 1996) | Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1997 ) | Linda Correll Roesner, Olaf Bär (1998 ) | Altenberg Trio, Ernst Burger (1999 ) | Olga Loseva, Steven Isserlis (2000 ) | John Eliot Gardiner (2001 ) | Alfred Brendel (2002 ) | Joachim Draheim, Juliane Banse (2003 ) | Daniel Barenboim (2005 ) | Margit L. McCorkle, Anton Kuerti (2007 ) | Reinhard Kapp, Michael Struck ( 2009) | András Schiff ( 2011) | Jon W. Finson, Ulf Wallin (2013 )

• Classic pianist
• Music teacher
• Rector (HMT Leipzig)
• Support of the Patriotic Order of Merit (Honorary clasp )
• Classical (DDR )
• Music Education (DDR )
• German
• Born in 1913
• Died in 2003
• Man