Gerhard Oppitz
Pianist Gerhard Oppitz is noted for his complete recorded cycles of the music of various composers. He was a longtime member of the faculty at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich.
Oppitz was born in Frauenau, Bavaria, in what was then West Germany, on February 5, 1953. He took up the piano at five, and at 11, he gave his first public recital in Stuttgart. There, he was heard by a local music professor, Paul Buck, with whom he studied. He went for further studies with Hugo Steurer in Munich. However, his major mentor was pianist Wilhelm Kempff, whom he met in 1973. The regard was mutual; before his death, Kempff stated that he thought Oppitz could continue the pianistic tradition of which he himself was a part. In 1977, Oppitz won the Artur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv, Israel, becoming the first German pianist so honored. In 1978, he recorded his first LP. Three years later, he joined the faculty of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, becoming the school's youngest instructor in history.
As a recording artist, Oppitz focused mostly on mainstream repertory from Mozart to the late 19th century, but as a performer, he also often played modern works by Boulez, Henze, Ligeti, Messiaen, and others. He is fluent in seven languages and is a licensed pilot who often flies his own plane to concert engagements. He has appeared as a concerto soloist and recitalist in many of Europe's major concert halls. Oppitz is widely recognized as a specialist in the music of Brahms, whose complete works for keyboard he recorded. He has also recorded the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven and Mozart and the complete solo piano works of Schubert and Grieg. Oppitz has made one of the few recordings of Max Reger's difficult Piano Concerto, Op. 114. He has recorded for various labels, but the majority of his work has been released by RCA and, more recently, by Hänssler Classic. Oppitz retired from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in 2013 but continued to perform and record. In 2023, he released an album of Schumann's piano works on Hänssler Classic. By that time, his recording catalog comprised some 75 CDs, plus LPs from the late '70s and early '80s.
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Artistas semelhantes
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Weber: Complete Works For Piano And Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 10 de abr. de 1997
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Zemlinsky: Clarinet Trio, Op. 3 - Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
Eduard Brunner, András Adorján, David GerIngas, Gerhard Oppitz, Dmitry Sitkovetsky
Chamber Music - Lançado por Tudor em 1 de jul. de 2016
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Piano for Relaxation
Classical - Lançado por RCA Victor em 25 de dez. de 2002
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5
Classical - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 26 de ago. de 1996
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Classical - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 4 de nov. de 1994
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Brahms: Piano Works
Classical - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 17 de nov. de 1997
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Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 5 & 4 Klavierstücke, Op. 119
Classical - Lançado por Orfeo em 1 de jan. de 1989
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SCHUBERT, F.: Piano Works, Vol. 2 (Oppitz) - Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 and 20, D. 157, 959 (Franz Schubert)
Classical - Lançado por haenssler CLASSIC em 1 de set. de 2008
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SCHUBERT, F.: Piano Works, Vol. 1 (Oppitz) - Piano Sonata No. 18, D. 894 / 3 Klavierstucke, D. 946 (Franz Schubert)
Classical - Lançado por haenssler CLASSIC em 1 de jan. de 2000
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Brahms: Klavierkonzert Nr. 1
Classical - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 11 de ago. de 2006
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Strauss: Enoch Arden, Op. 38, TrV 181
Gerhard Oppitz, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Classical - Lançado por haenssler CLASSIC em 4 de ago. de 2017
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Prokofiev: Sonatas for Violin and Piano
Lydia Mordkovitch, Gerhard Oppitz
Chamber Music - Lançado por Chandos em 1 de jun. de 1985
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Brahms: Rhapsody 79, Fantasy 116, Variations Paganini
Classical - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 23 de fev. de 1998
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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1, 8, 14, 18, 23, 26, 32
Classical - Lançado por haenssler CLASSIC em 3 de abr. de 2012
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Reger: Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 49 & Romanze in G Major
Eduard Brunner, Gerhard Oppitz
Chamber Music - Lançado por Tudor em 3 de jun. de 2016
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Brahms: Ballads, Variations
Classical - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 31 de dez. de 1995
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Schubert: Violin Sonata in A Major & Fantasie in C Major
Lydia Mordkovitch, Gerhard Oppitz
Classical - Lançado por Chandos em 1 de out. de 1988
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Weber: Chamber Works
Gerhard Oppitz, Pavel Gililov, Eduard Brunner, András Adorján, Boris Pergamenschikow
Chamber Music - Lançado por Orfeo em 1 de jan. de 2016
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Beethoven : Sonates pour piano n°4, 9, 10, 19 & 20 (Vol. 3) (Gerhard Oppitz)
Classical - Lançado por haenssler CLASSIC em 1 de jan. de 2000
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2, Violin Concerto
Classical - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 26 de set. de 1997
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Brahms: Cto. No. 2 - Bavarian Radio
Classical - Lançado por RCA Red Seal em 22 de set. de 1993
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