Jörg Demus
Jörg Demus was a highly regarded pianist and one of the finest of accompanists. He was noted for combining a basically Romantic sound with an interest in historic keyboard interpretation and early model pianos.
He entered the Vienna Academy of Music at the age of 11, where he studied piano and conducting, graduating in 1945. He continued to study conducting with Josef Krips and Hans Swarowsky, while also taking composition classes. He made his debut as a pianist at the age of 14, while still a student at the Conservatory. From 1951-1953, he was a pupil of Yves Nat in Paris. In 1953, he attended master classes with Gieseking in Saarbrücken, and studied interpretation further with Wilhelm Kempff, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and Edwin Fischer.
He made his debut as a mature artist in Vienna in 1953. In 1956, he won the Busoni Prize of the International Competition for Pianists. He maintained a notable solo career, especially for personal interpretations of Bach and flexible, colorful renditions of Debussy. He was also well regarded for the main line of German piano music from Mozart to Schumann, and for his performances of the piano music of César Franck. He was a recipient of the Beethoven Ring and the Mozart Medal of Vienna.
He was a sensitive accompanist and worked with singers of the highest caliber, including Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Diskau. His version of Schubert's Winterreise, with Fischer-Dieskau, is one of the most critically acclaimed of all recordings of the great song cycle.
He also accompanied violinists (Josef Suk, for instance) and cellists (Antonio Janigro). He appeared in piano duet and two-piano concerts with Paul Badura-Skoda, who shared Demus' interest in older keyboard instruments. Demus acquired several notable examples of early instruments, including harpsichords and pianos by Broadwood, Clementi, and Conrad Graf, and recorded appropriate music on them. He also authored several essays, a book on interpretation, and, as co-author with Badura-Skoda, an analysis of the Beethoven piano sonatas.
Later releases featuring him on piano included Mozart: Lieder (2006), Primeval Sounds (2007), and Haydn: Complete Songs (2009).
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Debussy, Bruckner, Schubert & Others: Solo Piano Works
Classical - Released by SWR Mediaservices GmbH on 1/06/2018
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Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
Classical - Released by SWR Mediaservices GmbH on 18/05/2018
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Salon de Vienne (Bela Bartok - Zoltan Szekely - Johannes Brahms)
Classical - Released by Gramola Records on 1/10/2010
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Classical Music for Studying
Classical - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/2016
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Bach: Variations Goldberg (Mono Version)
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1957
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Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2
Classical - Released by SWR Mediaservices GmbH on 18/05/2018
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Schubert: Sonate pour piano No. 21, D. 960 (Mono Version)
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1956
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Mozart: Double Piano Concerto No. 10 in E-Flat Major, K. 365 (Recorded 1964)
Jörg Demus, Helmut Brauss, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Hans Müller-Kray
Classical - Released by SWR Mediaservices GmbH on 22/05/2020
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The Great Classical Music #139 : Ludwig Van Beethoven // Friedrich Chopin // Claude Debussy
Classical - Released by Ermitage Records on 13/05/2020
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J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II (Jörg Demus – The Bach Recordings on Westminster, Vol. 2)
Classical - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 1/01/1956
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Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48 / Wolf: Ausgewählte Lieder
Miscellaneous - Released by Eterna on 18/07/1980
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Schumann: Piano Concerto, Konzertstück & Introduction and Allegro for Piano and Orchestra (Mono Version)
Orchestre de l'opéra d'état de Vienne, Arthur Rodzinsky, Jörg Demus
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1958
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Jörg Demus, Kurt F. Schmid, Philharmonic Orchestra Györ, Dirigent: Adolf Vasicek
Classical - Released by Ton 4 Records on 1/01/2003
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Schubert: Die Werke fur Violine und Klavier, Vol. 1
Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Jörg Demus
Chamber Music - Released by Gramola Records on 1/01/2009
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Brahms: Die schöne Magelone op. 33
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1/01/1989
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Los Grandes de la Musica Clasica - Franz Schubert Vol. 2
Classical - Released by ClassicalPirosDigital on 19/06/2015
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Johannes Brahms, Vol. 2
Leopold Wlach, Jörg Demus, Emanuel Feuermann, Jascha Heifetz
Classical - Released by ArnebAudio on 10/01/2024
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Zwischen Tag und Traum
Classical - Released by Bob-Media on 25/12/2015
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Schumann: Works for Cello & Piano
Chamber Music - Released by Musical Heritage Society on 12/04/2024
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Schumann: Concerto pour piano, Op. 54 - Grieg: Concerto pour piano, Op. 16 (Mono Version)
Jörg Demus, Artur Rodzinski, Wiener Staatsoper
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1962
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