Isolde Ahlgrimm

Isolde Ahlgrimm is a Austrian Claveciniste born with Vienna the July 31st 1914 and deceased in this same city the October 11th 1995.

Its first instrument is the Piano, as it was the case of the majority of the harpsichordists of its generation. She studies with the Academy of Vienna. It is in 1935 qu ' it is devoted to the Clavecin which it will teach in this same academy as from 1945. Between 1958 and 1962, she teaches with the Mozarteum Salzburg, then again in Vienna. In its teaching, it in particular recommended to note separately the ornamentations written by Bach in certain works, and to make use of it like model to design its own ornamentation.

Richard Strauss composed for it in 1944 a continuation for harpsichord drawn from its opera Capriccio .

Its repertory is mainly centered on the German baroque and she is regarded as a specialist in works of Bach. Its legacy discographic consists mainly of an integral of work for harpsichord of Bach, which was not republished out of CD and is not thus available any more. Were republished its interpretations of the continuations for harpsichord of Georg Friedrich Haendel, various works of Austrian type-setters, the sonatas for Viola da gamba and harpsichord of Bach with Siegfried Pank. It also took part in the recording of the concertos for harpsichord of Bach with the Staatskapelle of Dresden, under the direction of Kurt Redel. In its interpretation of the Art of the running away recorded in Vienna in May 1967, republished out of CD, it uses harpsichord-pedals.

Among its pupils, let us quote Peter Watchorn (Australie/USA), Larry Palmer (the USA), Elaine Comparone (the USA), Pénélope Kosztolnyik, and Zsusza Pertis. Watchorn undertook with it to write its biography, which appeared in English in 2007 (Ashgate). Among the pupils of Peter Watchorn let us quote particularly Mahan Esfahani (the USA).

Its last years were obscured by the Parkinson's disease. It dies out in Vienna on October 11th, 1995, at the 81 years age.

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