Oleg Maisenberg
Oleg Iosifovich Corn Mountain (Russian Олег Иосифович Майзенберг born April 29, 1945 in Odessa ) is a Russian pianist and professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
Life
With five years Maisberg received his first piano lessons from his mother. In 1965, he attended the Central Music School in Kishinev and studied from 1966 to 1971 on Gnossin Institute in Moscow with Alexander Jocheles, whose assistant he became later.
When Schubert Competition in Vienna in 1967, he won the second prize. In the same year he was able to decide for themselves another competition, the music of the 20th century.
Between 1971 and 1980 he appeared in subscription concerts of the Moscow Philharmonic as well as with other Soviet orchestras. 1972 there was a first chamber music concert with Gidon Kremer, with the since it combines an artistic partnership.
In 1981 he emigrated to the West and settled in Vienna.
Under Eugene Ormandy in 1983 he gave his American debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Between 1985 and 1989 he taught as a professor at the Stuttgart Academy of Music and then went to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
The consequences of a car accident in 1997, which he describes as the most unpleasant of his life and led to a disability of his right hand, forcing him to change his technique and to practice unusual fingerings.
On the occasion of his 60th birthday, he gave in 2004 at the Vienna Musikverein nine concerts with works by Russian composers.
Repertoire and reception
Corn Mount broad repertoire as soloist, accompanist - for example, by Hermann Prey and Robert Holl - as well as chamber musicians ranging from the Viennese classical to moderate modernism.
In the West, he initially joined as a partner Gidon Kremer in appearance, with which he played Franz Schubert Sonatinas for Violin and Piano virtuoso transcriptions and Sonatas by Béla Bartók and Erwin Schulhoff. The voltage of this artistic collaboration resulted from the contrast between the extroverted game Kremers and the behavioral - subtle piano corn hill.
Even as a soloist Maisberg has made a name since his emigration, though these are also reflected in relatively few recordings. Thus, the recording of the Wanderer Fantasy acts directly and gripping, albeit with occasionally going into Metallic Forte.
Corn Mountain is interpreted with clear articulation and sense of form a stylistically confident pianist, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. It is noteworthy, however, its tendency to slow tempos, which he occasionally unleashes give about Chopin's F minor Fantasy decays or Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte, book Siert stable and sounds too pregnant with meaning. On the other hand, a tonally graded game can just slow in his interpretations unfold, the other Ravel and Debussy interpretations comes to meet, such as the Miroirs or Debussy's Images.
Corn mountain background, the Russian piano school, you can see most of the melodic beauty of his game, the simplicity of the January melody from Tchaikovsky's about seasons, which he sets itself apart from Aschkenasis eccentric and virtuoso performance.