Piano Sonatas Vol. 5 op. 31/1 - 3 (G. Oppitz)

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Hänssler Classic is proud to announce the latest volume in a major new Beethoven Sonata cycle, performed by Gerhard Oppitz. Throughout his distinguished career, Oppitz has established his deep understanding of Beethovenrsquo;s idiom and now brings a lifetime of experience to commit these works to disc.

Gerhard Oppitz was born in Frauenau (in the Bavarian Forest) in 1953. At the age of five, he began to play piano and debuted with a performance of Mozartrsquo;s Piano Concerto in D Minor when he was eleven. Oppitz received his formal training inStuttgart and Munich starting in 1966 with professors Paul Buck and Hugo Steurer, and later with Wilhelm Kempff, concentrating on the works of Beethoven. In 1977, he was awarded first prize at the Artur Rubinstein Competition in Israel. Oppitzrsquo;s main interest is the classical-romantic repertoire, although he has always devoted himself to music of the twentieth century. Oppitz is widely renown and respected for his programming major repertoire and cycles, such as Bachrsquo;s raquo;Wohltemperiertes Klavierlaquo;, Mozartrsquo;s eighteen sonatas, Beethovenrsquo;s 32 sonatas, all the solo works by Schubert and Brahmsrsquo; complete piano works. Since 1981, he has been teaching post-graduate students at the Academy of Music in Munich.