Amadeus Webersinke
Amadeus Webersinke | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 November 1920 |
| Died | 15 May 2005 (aged 84) |
| Occupations | Pianist, organist |
Amadeus Webersinke (1920–2005) was a German pianist and organist.
The son of a secondary school teacher, he attended high school in Jesenik. Webersinke studied from at the Institut für Kirchenmusik in Leipzig with Karl Straube, Johann Nepomuk David, and Otto Weinreich. He was a lecturer at the Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre and until 1953, he worked mainly as an organist, and later only as a pianist.
Webersinke was particularly devoted to Bach's organ and piano works and also gave concerts on the clavichord. He recorded Max Reger's Piano Concerto (issued in 1973). In 1966, he assumed a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.
Awards
- First Prize for Organ at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig (1950)
- National Prize of the GDR, 3rd Class (1950)
- Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau (1974)
- Distinguished University Teacher of the GDR (1980)
- Star of People's Friendship in Gold (1988)
- Saxon Order of Merit (2000)
Bibliography
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (eds.): *Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ/DDR. 1945–1990.* Vol. 2: *Maassen – Zylla.* K. G. Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0, p. 982.
- Ingo Harden: "Amadeus Webersinke." In: Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes: *Pianistenprofile: 600 Interpreten: ihre Biografie, ihr Stil, ihre Aufnahmen.* Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1616-5, pp. 766–767.
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- 2005 deaths
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- University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni
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- German Bohemian people
- German people of German Bohemian descent
- People from Broumov
- Naturalized citizens of Germany
- Czechoslovak emigrants to Germany
- 20th-century German classical pianists
- 20th-century German male classical pianists
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