Artist
Gerhard Oppitz
Popular
Albums
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
2026 · Album
J.S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue — Liszt: Variations on a Theme of Bach
2026 · Album
Robert Schumann - Piano Works Vol.3
2026 · Album
Best of Schubert
2025 · Album
Pflüger: Piano Concerto, Patchwork & Agitato
2025 · Album
Schumann: Piano Works, Vol. 2
2024 · Album
Schumann: Piano Works
2023 · Album
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonatas No32, Pathétique", "Appassionata" (Classical Masterpieces)
2019 · Album
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonatas "Moonlight", "The Hunt", Les Adieux" (Classical Masterpieces)
2019 · Album
Schubert: Piano Works
2018 · Album
Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 5 & 4 Klavierstücke, Op. 119
2016 · Album
Schubert: Piano Works, Vol. 12
2014 · Album
Schubert: Piano Works, Vol. 11
2014 · Album
Schubert: Piano Works, Vol. 10
2013 · Album
Schubert: Piano Works, Vol. 9
2013 · Album
Schubert: Piano Works, Vol. 8
2012 · Album
Schumann: Works for Piano and Orchestra
2012 · Album
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1, 8, 14, 18, 23, 26, 32
2012 · Album
Schubert: Piano Works, Vol. 7
2012 · Album
Japanese Piano Works
2011 · Album
Schubert: Piano Works Vol. 6
2011 · Album
Schubert: Piano Works, Vol. 5
2010 · Album
Schubert: Piano Works, Vol. 4
2010 · Album
Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas
2009 · Album
Singles & EPs
Appears on
Best Moments: Peer Gynt Suite, Swanlake, Piano Concerto No.2, Sinfonie No.94 "mit dem Paukenschlag" (Classical Masterpieces)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Strauss: Enoch Arden, Op. 38, TrV 181
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Brahms: The Sonatas for Cello and Piano
Heinrich Schiff
Reger: Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 49 & Romanze in G Major
Eduard Brunner
Schumann: Cello Concerto; Adagio & Allegro; Fantasiestücke; 5 Stücke im Volkston
Bernard Haitink
Brahms: The Clarinet Sonatas
Karl Leister
Grieg: Complete Solo Piano Music
Edvard Grieg
Gerhard Oppitz Plays Grieg
Edvard Grieg
Veerhoff: Chamber Music - World Premier Recordings (Digitally Remastered)
Marianne Boettcher
Brahms, Schubert, Schumann: Lieder
Waltraud Meier
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2, Violin Concerto
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Grieg - Piano Works Vol. 1
Edvard Grieg
Franck / Saint Saens: Violin Sonatas; Ravel: Tzigane
Gil Shaham
Schubert: Violin Sonata in A Major & Fantasie in C Major
Franz Schubert
Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 1 & Violin Sonata No. 2
Robert Schumann
Lydia Mordkovitch plays Violin Sonatas
Lydia Mordkovitch
Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 1, Violin Sonata No. 2 & Violin Sonata No. 3
Johannes Brahms
Strauss: Violin Sonata Op. 18 - Fauré: Violin Sonata Op. 13
Lydia Mordkovitch
Bach, J.S.: Piano Concertos BWV 1060, 1061, 1063 & 1065
Christoph Eschenbach
Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 1 & Violin Sonata No. 2
Sergei Prokofiev
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About
Gerhard Oppitz (born 5 February 1953, Frauenau) is a German classical pianist.
He studied with Paul Buck, Hugo Steurer and Wilhelm Kempff. In 1981 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 the summer 1977, at the age of 24, Oppitz was the first German to win the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master 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 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.
In 2009 he received the Brahms-Preis from the Brahms Society of Schleswig-Holstein.
Among his students are Valentina Babor and Milana Chernyavska.