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Maria Kliegel
Maria Kliegel (born 14 November 1952) is a German cellist.
Kliegel was born in Dillenburg, Hesse. She studied under Janos Starker starting at the age of 19. She won first prize at the American College Competition, First German Music Competition and Concours Aldo Parisot, and was also the Grand Prize winner at the second Mstislav Rostropovich International Cello Competition in 1981.
Russian composer Alfred Schnittke recognized her interpretation as the standard recording of his work when she recorded his First Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in 1990. On top of this, she has done many recordings for Naxos, including concertos and other cello works by Beethoven, Bloch, Brahms, Bruch, Dohnányi, Dvořák, Elgar, Lalo, Saint-Saëns, Shostakovich, Schumann, Tavener and Tchaikovsky. She has also recorded a large volume of chamber music by Brahms, Chopin, Demus, Gubaidulina, Kodály, Mendelssohn and Schubert. She will soon be recording Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano, Haydn's cello concertos and Bach's solo cello suites.
She formerly played a Stradivarius, which has become known as the ex-Gendron, for the famous French cellist Maurice Gendron. Currently, she performs on a cello made by Carlo Tononi in Venice c. 1730.
Since 1986 she has taught a master class at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.
In 1995, moved after reading Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Maria Kliegel decided to find a way to pay tribute to him through classical music. Thus was born the idea of creating a piece called Hommage à Nelson M. for cello and percussion. By combining these instruments, Maria Kliegel wanted to build a musical bridge between the European musical tradition and the native sense of rhythm of South Africa's black population. After contacting composer Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann and pitching the idea to him, she found an ally in him. It became the goal of both of them to bring the work to a South African premiere with Mandela as the guest of honor.
Thanks to her friendship with the then president of North Rhine-Westphalia and later German president Johannes Rau, she managed to deliver a letter to Mandela during his state visit to Germany, informing him of the resulting idea.
Since concert plans in South Africa could not be made, and the artist wanted to send the composition as a message to the world as soon as possible, the premiere took place in December 1996 before a very moved audience at the townhall in Düsseldorf.
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Maria Kliegel
Maria Kliegel (born 14 November 1952) is a German cellist.
Kliegel was born in Dillenburg, Hesse. She studied under Janos Starker starting at the age of 19. She won first prize at the American College Competition, First German Music Competition and Concours Aldo Parisot, and was also the Grand Prize winner at the second Mstislav Rostropovich International Cello Competition in 1981.
Russian composer Alfred Schnittke recognized her interpretation as the standard recording of his work when she recorded his First Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in 1990. On top of this, she has done many recordings for Naxos, including concertos and other cello works by Beethoven, Bloch, Brahms, Bruch, Dohnányi, Dvořák, Elgar, Lalo, Saint-Saëns, Shostakovich, Schumann, Tavener and Tchaikovsky. She has also recorded a large volume of chamber music by Brahms, Chopin, Demus, Gubaidulina, Kodály, Mendelssohn and Schubert. She will soon be recording Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano, Haydn's cello concertos and Bach's solo cello suites.
She formerly played a Stradivarius, which has become known as the ex-Gendron, for the famous French cellist Maurice Gendron. Currently, she performs on a cello made by Carlo Tononi in Venice c. 1730.
Since 1986 she has taught a master class at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.
In 1995, moved after reading Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Maria Kliegel decided to find a way to pay tribute to him through classical music. Thus was born the idea of creating a piece called Hommage à Nelson M. for cello and percussion. By combining these instruments, Maria Kliegel wanted to build a musical bridge between the European musical tradition and the native sense of rhythm of South Africa's black population. After contacting composer Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann and pitching the idea to him, she found an ally in him. It became the goal of both of them to bring the work to a South African premiere with Mandela as the guest of honor.
Thanks to her friendship with the then president of North Rhine-Westphalia and later German president Johannes Rau, she managed to deliver a letter to Mandela during his state visit to Germany, informing him of the resulting idea.
Since concert plans in South Africa could not be made, and the artist wanted to send the composition as a message to the world as soon as possible, the premiere took place in December 1996 before a very moved audience at the townhall in Düsseldorf.
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