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Born: June 15, 1928 - Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Died: June 22, 2022 - Wassenach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. |
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The German conductor, keyboardist (organ, harpsichord), musicologist, music pedagogue and instrument collector, Rudolf [Rudolph] Ewerhart, studied church music at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, and from 1949 to 1953 he studied music at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.
Rudolf Ewerhart began his activity as an organist in 1953. The complete recording of concertos for organ and orchestra by George Frideric Handel with the Collegium Aureum for the legendary German label Harmonia Mundi made him famous around the world as an organist. The numerous tours have taken him to the most important concert halls, even in Italy.
Rudolf Ewerhart was, in 1966, a collegue, as a teacher of Sacred Music, of the theologian Dr. Joseph Ratzinger, head of the seminars of dogmatic theology in the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Münster. He was a lecturer (organ and choral conducting) at the School of Sacred Music of the Staatlichen Musikhochschule in Köln from 1973 to 1991. Among his pupils: Odilo B.M. Klasen, Burkhard Pütz, Thomas Sorger, Willem Winschuh. Over two hundred editions of early music show his deep knowledge in the field of musicology.
Rudolf Ewerhart wass the owner of the late Baroque Burghaus Wassenach am Laacher See, Rhineland-Palatinate, He hosted there his important collection of vintage musical instruments, especially keyboard instruments from the 17th until the 19th century (fortepiano, organs, spinets, harpsichord) available to the interested public. The instruments were playable and thus could also be experienced for the ear. In conjunction with the lecture concerts offered tours take place four times a year, in which 12 different instruments were presented in their sound. As an expert on the organ he also participated in the restoration of the organ of St. Joseph's Chapel in Düsseldorf in 1992. |
