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The Austrian pianist and composer Winfried Wolf, studied piano and composition at the Vienna Conservatory, having started his career as a concert pianist in 1924. Later, between 1934 and 1940, he taught piano at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, and, from then on, at the Conservatório Nacional in Lisbon. In 1961, he was appointed Professor of piano at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, a position he held until his death.
Winfried Wolf was a unique pianist of international renown, having played in some of the main concert halls in European cities. In Funchal, he played the piano several times between January 1947 and January 1963, remaining in Madeira for the first two years of this period (1947-1949), when he composed the Suite Madeirense Op. 13, in three movements, presented on February 12, 1948, at the Municipal Theater. The vast majority of the concerts he performed in Funchal were promoted by the Sociedade de Concertos da Madeira, with emphasis on participation in important events, such as the Madeira Music Festivals or the Festas da Cidade.
There is also the fact that Winfried Wolf was always a huge success in the concerts he performed in Funchal, well expressed in the written reports of the newspapers at the time. He interpreted works by several composers, including Isaac Albéniz, J.S. Bach, Béla Bartók, L.v. Beethoven, Alexander Borodin, Johannes Brahms, João de Sousa Carvalho, Frédéric Chopin, Luís Clode, Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados, Franz Liszt, W.A. Mozart, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Rachmaninov, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Carlos de Seixas, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Heitor Villa-Lobos; some of them he also recorded.. |
