Bernd Wiesemann (4 August 1938 – 10 August 2015) was a German pianist, composer, music educator and conceptual artist.
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Born | (1938-08-04)4 August 1938 |
Died | 10 August 2015(2015-08-10) (aged 77) Düsseldorf |
Education | Robert Schumann-Institut |
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Website | www |
Born in Düsseldorf, Wiesemann studied piano with Alexander Kaul at the Robert Schumann-Institut in his hometown.
Wiesemann was a pioneer of the kinderklavier (children's piano, also toy piano), which he promoted from the end of the 1970s as a concert instrument on which he performed and for which he composed,[1] for example Sieben Miniaturen (1980), Petite Suite (1987) and Bauhaus-Suite (1994). He played many concerts, even in open places such as stations, in Kneipen and on the street. He organized with René Heinersdorff a concert series, from 1991 to 2000, forum 20 – musik unseres jahrhunderts im spiegel der dezennien (forum 20 – music of our century mirrored in decades),[2] which focused on a fusion of the arts, both informative and entertaining.[1][3] He played concerts in Germany, France, Ireland and the Netherlands, recorded CDs and made radio productions and documentations.[2] He recorded in 2003 a SACD Neue Musik für Kinderklavier – Das untemperierte Klavier.[4] Colleagues composing for him and his kinderklavier included Christian Banasik [de], Oskar Gottlieb Blarr, Ratko Delorko, Michael Denhoff, Oscar van Dillen and Andreas Kunstein. Wiesemann's compositions for children's piano were published by Verlag Dohr in Cologne. He died in his hometown.[1] His daughter is the actress Mirjam Wiesemann. A memorial concert for him was played on 22 November 2015 at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf in the series for contemporary music Na hör’n Sie mal.[5]
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