Amadeus Webersinke

Amadeus Webersinke ( born 1 November 1920 in Broumov, Northern Bohemia, † 15 May 2005 Dresden ) was a German pianist, organist and professor.

Life

1938 Webersinke, son of a study presented Council, from the High School and studied from 1938 to 1940 at the Institute of Sacred Music in Leipzig with Karl Straube, Johann Nepomuk David, Otto Weinreich. In 1940 he took the examination as a church musician and performed from 1940 military service. Webersinke was from 1946 professor at the Conservatory in Leipzig and from 1953 professor of piano at the Leipzig Academy of Music. Until 1953 he worked mainly as an organist and then only as a pianist. Concert tours have taken him from the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany, in the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania and Hungary, as well as Austria, Switzerland, Egypt. He regularly toured Japan for concerts and courses.

Amadeus Webersinke devoted himself particularly care of Bach's organ and piano works and also gave concerts on the clavichord. He was involved as well for contemporary music in the GDR, such as a soloist in the Piano Concerto by Siegfried Köhler. In 1966 he was appointed professor at the Dresden Academy of Music, where he was Head of the piano. From 1972 he was director of the master class for chamber music at the University.

His grave is in the cemetery Maria am Wasser in Dresden Hosterwitz.

Awards

  • National Prize III. Class (1950 )
  • Robert Schumann Prize (1974 )
  • Star of People's Friendship in Gold ( 1988)
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