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Bust of the publisher Peter Suhrkamp, designed by Johannes Cernota 2012
Johannes Cernota (born 16 March 1955) is a German pianist, composer and artist.
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Johannes Cernota (born 16 March 1955) is a German pianist, composer and artist.
Born in Visbek, Lower Saxony, Cernota received his first piano lessons at the age of five and studied at the Musikhochschule Köln and at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen from 1974 to 1982 with Luciano Ortis, [1] Kurt Seibert and Günter Ludwig, among others. From 1980 to 1995, he held several teaching posts for piano at the universities of Bremen and Oldenburg. From 1982 to 1983, he was also répétiteur at the Goethe Theatre in Bremen.
Cernota has released several recordings as a composer and concert pianist and has played in several radio and television recordings. He is also active as a visual artist with performances, sound art, painting and sculptures. His recordings of works by Erik Satie and, together with the cellist Thomas Beckmann, of works by Charlie Chaplin are well known. The corresponding CD entitled Oh! That Cello was awarded the "German Record Critics' Prize". [2]
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie, who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but was an undistinguished student and obtained no diploma. In the 1880s he worked as a pianist in café-cabaret in Montmartre, Paris, and began composing works, mostly for solo piano, such as his Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes. He also wrote music for a Rosicrucian sect to which he was briefly attached.
Juan María Solare is an Argentine composer and pianist.
Hélène Rose Paule Grimaud is a French classical pianist and the founder of the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York.
Furniture music, or in French musique d’ameublement, is background music originally played by live performers. The term was coined by Erik Satie in 1917.
Emánuel Moór was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and inventor of musical instruments.
Jaro Medien GmbH is a German music company founded in 1981. It books eclectic musical acts, as well as publishing and selling recordings.
Wilhelm Reinhard Berger was a German composer, pianist and conductor.
Jeroen van Veen is a Dutch classical pianist and composer. As well as undertaking work as a soloist, he collaborates with other pianists. For example, he has formed duos with his brother Maarten, and, later, with his wife Sandra.
Christophe Sirodeau is a French pianist and composer.
The Avant-dernières pensées is a 1915 piano composition by Erik Satie. The last of his humoristic piano suites of the 1910s, it was premiered by the composer at the Galerie Thomas in Paris on May 30, 1916, and published that same year. A typical performance lasts 3–4 minutes.
Choses vues à droite et à gauche , commonly translated as Things Seen Right-to-Left , is a suite for violin and piano by Erik Satie. Composed in January 1914 and published in 1916, it is the only work he produced for violin-piano duet. A typical performance lasts about 5 minutes.
The Trois petites pièces montées is a suite for small orchestra by Erik Satie, inspired by themes from the novel series Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais. It was premiered at the Comédie des Champs-Élysées in Paris on February 21, 1920, conducted by Vladimir Golschmann. Satie later arranged it for piano four hands and today it is more frequently heard in this version. A typical performance lasts about five minutes.
The Allegro is a brief piano piece by Erik Satie. Dated September 9, 1884, when Satie was 18, it is his earliest known composition. It also marked the first time he signed his given name as "Erik" instead of "Éric".
The Descriptions automatiques is a 1913 piano composition by Erik Satie. The second of his humoristic keyboard suites (1912-1915), it set the tone for the rest of the series by introducing elements of musical parody, and in the increasingly important role played by the verbal commentary. In performance it lasts about 4 minutes.
Trois morceaux en forme de poire is a 1903 suite for piano four hands by French composer Erik Satie. A lyrical compendium of his early music, it is one of Satie's most famous compositions, second in popular recognition only to the Gymnopédies (1888). The score was not published until 1911. In performance it lasts around 14 minutes.
The Cello Sonata in F minor, Op. 5, was composed by Max Reger in 1892 in Wiesbaden. He dedicated it to the cellist Oskar Brückner who performed it first, with the composer as the pianist, in Wiesbaden on 17 October 1893. It was published by Augener & Co., London, in September 1893.
The Véritables Préludes flasques is a 1912 piano composition by Erik Satie. The first of his published humoristic piano suites of the 1910s, it signified a breakthrough in his creative development and in the public perception of his music. In performance it lasts about 5 minutes.
Nicolas Horvath is a French pianist and electroacoustic composer.
Heures séculaires et instantanées is a 1914 piano composition by Erik Satie. One of his humoristic keyboard suites of the 1910s, it features Satie's famous warning to pianists against reading aloud the fanciful texts that adorned his scores. In performance it lasts about 4 minutes.
The Petite ouverture à danser(Little Overture to a Dance) is a piece for solo piano composed around 1897 by Erik Satie. Unknown for many years, it is one of the more popular works to emerge from his posthumous manuscripts. A performance lasts under 3 minutes.
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