Hans Richter-Haaser

Hans Richter- Haaser ( born January 6, 1912 in Dresden, † December 13, 1980 in Braunschweig ) was a German pianist.

In addition to his main instrument Piano Hans Richter studied at the Dresden Conservatory Haaser percussion, composition and conducting. In addition, he showed great talent for playing the violin. Early age of 16, 1928, he appeared for the first time in public with the Wanderer Fantasy by Franz Schubert. Two years later, in 1930, he sat down by the piano - under 120 candidates and won the prestigious C. Bechstein price.

In the turmoil of the Second World War Richter Haaser left his home town of Dresden and moved to Detmold. After the war he became head of the Detmold Symphony Orchestra. At founded in 1946, Northwest German Music Academy, now the University of Music Detmold, he was once a teacher of piano and chamber music, which was converted in 1955 to a professorship. In 1963, he gave this office, however, to devote himself with all the intensity of his international concert career as a pianist can. In addition, he also made ​​numerous recordings.

Especially as an interpreter of the works of Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms, Hans Richter Haaser made ​​a name for itself worldwide.

During the rehearsal at a symphony concert in the Stadthalle Braunschweig he broke in the second sentence of the second piano concerto in B flat major by Johannes Brahms at the piano together and died in hospital a pulmonary embolism, shortly before his 69th birthday.

Honors

• Artist (Dresden)
• Man
• German
• Classic pianist
• University teachers ( Music in Detmold )
• Agencies of the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class
• Born in 1912
• Died in 1980