Rudolf Kehrer

Rudolf Kehrer (* July 10, 1923 in Tbilisi, Georgia, † October 29, 2013 ) was a German-Russian classical pianist and piano teacher.

Kehrer (Russian Kerer ) was born in 1923 in a family of piano makers who were, Germany emigrated from Swabia. His talent was recognized early, and a prelude in Moscow with Heinrich Neuhaus, the teacher, among other things by Emil Gilels and Sviatoslav Richter was already agreed, as of 1941, the German Wehrmacht invaded the Soviet Union. Rudolf Kehrer, his brother and his mother were exiled as a German by South Kazakhstan in a small village; Sweeper could not play the piano for thirteen years. 1938 two uncles had already been arrested and placed in Stalin's prison camps; one did not return, and the other died shortly after his release from exhaustion. The father was arrested in 1939 and imprisoned for ten years in the camps, where he died in 1943.

It was only in 1954 after Stalin's death Rudolf Kehrer was studying piano in Tashkent (Uzbekistan ) continue; He completed it in 1957 with honors and received an appointment to the chair of the Tashkent Conservatory. With special permission ( because of his age ) he was allowed to participate in the 1961 Allunionswettbewerb music artists in Moscow, which he won with the highest possible score.

In the same year he was appointed to a chair of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, an activity which he held at the Vienna Academy of Music in 1990 until his appointment as a visiting professor, and solo pianist of the Moscow Philharmonic.

1961 began Kehrer an intense concert activity with a total of more than 2,000 concerts in over 330 cities. In contrast to, for example, he had to Sviatoslav Richter - with few exceptions - limited to perestroika its activities to Eastern European countries, including the GDR and was known only to connoisseurs in the West who could earn his numerous records for the Soviet state enterprise " Melodiya " that in the GDR under the label " Eterna " in Western Europe under the label " euro disc" were partially available.

Since sweeper piano training was a gap of 13 years, decisive, his repertoire - for example, in comparison with that of Richter and Gilels - rather small, but is well documented in studio productions and live recordings. In addition to the recordings of concerts in the GDR, which are located in the DRA Potsdam -Babelsberg, the tape of a Moscow concert is archived in the archive of the SWR; another recordings and studio productions can be found among others at the WDR Cologne, the Bavarian Radio and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation.

A concert in Moscow in 1998 is currently the only commercially available CD ( telos ).

An extensive collection of his recordings is kept at the Rudolf Kehrer archive in Overath.

Kehrer lived most recently in Zurich, Switzerland.

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