From the Amandus Church in Bad Urach, Southern Germany (1987)
Gerhard Oppitz - piano
Gianluigi Gelmetti - conductor
Südfunk Choir
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven - Choral Fantasia Op. 80
Gerhard Oppitz (born 1953) is a German classical pianist. Oppitz studied with Paul Buck, Hugo Steurer and Wilhelm Kempff. In 1981, at the age of 28, he was appointed professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München - the youngest in the history of the institute - where he still teaches. As a soloist he has appeared with many famous conductors and orchestras of the world. In summer 1977, at the age of 24, Oppitz was the first German to win the Arthur Rubinstein piano competition in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Performance of cycles of complete piano works feature strongly in his concert repertoire, including Schubert's and Grieg's solo piano works and the sonatas by Beethoven and Mozart's sonatas, Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, and, especially, the complete works of Johannes Brahms. He has recorded the challenging Max Reger Piano Concerto Op. 114 with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and conductor Horst Stein. Among his students is Valentina Babor.
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