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Wolfgang Brunner looks back to a lot of studies: music education
and musicology in Munic and Salzburg and piano with Hans Leygraf, later
he studied harpsichord with Liselotte Brändle, Kenneth Gilbert and
Glen Wilson, Performance practise with Nikolaus Harnoncourt. In fortepiano
he got impulses by Eckart Sellheim and Richard Fuller.
Since 1985 is teaching historical keyboard instruments, Piano, Pianoimprovisation
and Chambermusic at the "Mozarteum" Salzburg. 1990-92 he was
teaching fortepiano at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe.
1998
he was first winner of the International C.P.E. Bach Competition in Hamburg
(Combination of Fortepiano and Harpsichord), in 1989 he was first winner
of the International Mozart Competition in Brugge (Fortepiano). Since
this time he was invited to all important Festivals for Early music (f.e.
Brugge, Utrecht, Herne), his partners have been Barbara Schlick, Michael
Schopper, Konrad Hünteler, Lucy van Dael, Freiburger Barockorchester.
In 1991 he started Concerts with his own band Salzburger
Hofmusik , an Ensemble playing mainly (but not exclusivly) music on
contempory instruments. A main subject of the repertoire consists of Salzburgian
music-tradition before Mozart
Under his CD-recordings you can find much pioneer
recordings, f.e. complete piano works of Anton Bruckner, E.T.A. Hoffmann,
songs of Carl Orff, with the Salzburger Hofmusik there are recordings
of opera, orchestral and chamber music.
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