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Wolfgang Pasquay

Wolfgang Pasquay (10 February 1931 – 8 April 2006) was a German classical pianist, composer and music educator. Youth Born in Cottbus, Pasquay received piano lessons as a child. From 1941 he attended

Wolfgang Pasquay (10 February 1931 – 8 April 2006) was a German classical pianist, composer and music educator. Youth Born in Cottbus, Pasquay received piano lessons as a child. From 1941 he attended the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt, where he studied piano with August Leopolder and conducting and composition with Kurt Thomas. In 1944, at the age of 13, he was awarded the Hall Youth Prize for Composition for his Piano Variations on a Theme by Hugo Distler. In 1945, at the age of 14, he gave his first public performance as a pianist in Stuttgart. Pianist In the following three decades Pasquay devoted himself mainly to his career as a pianist. In 1950 he joined forces with Berthold Ende (violin) and Hans Hendler (violoncello) in Düsseldorf to form a piano trio, which performed the entire repertoire for this instrumentation in the following years. Numerous solo performances followed throughout Europe, including in Berlin, London, Vienna and Paris. Pasquay’s concert repertoire included the piano concertos by Mozart, Beethoven Brahms, Chopin, Schumann, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky and Bartók as well as pieces by Bach, Schubert, Debussy, Franck, Mussorgsky and other compo

Era
Post-War
Lived
1931–2006
From
Germany
Born in
Cottbus · died Solingen
Known as
composer, music educator, pianist, conductor, music arranger

Contemporaries

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