Amadeus Webersinke (pianist)

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. 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) 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. knerger.de – his grave Bach-cantatas.com – Amadeus Webersinke v t e v t e