ERIK THEN-BERGH (HANOVER, MAY 3, 1916 – BALDHAM NEAR MUNICH, APRIL 19, 1982)
Erik Then-Bergh received his first piano lessons at the age of five from his father and further training with the Hanoverian piano teacher Clara Spitta. He made his first public appearance in his hometown at the age of 13. He later studied piano in Frankfurt am Main in the master class of Alfred Hoehn and then deepened his studies with Carl Adolf Martienssen in Berlin. As a 20-year-old he won the Walter Bachmann Prize in Dresden. In 1938 he made his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with piano concertos by Beethoven and Brahms, The high point of his career was during the Second World War, where he played under well-known conductors and won the National Music Prize in 1940 as the best young pianist. After the war, extensive concert tours took him all over Europe, where he played under well-known conductors such as Herbert von Karajan or Joseph Keilberth . In 1954 he played four concerts in Hamburg and Berlin under the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler . Furtwängler was so impressed by him that he asked him to perform the revised version of his Symphonic Concerto in B minor on a major concert tour with the Berlin Philharmonic. Both rehearsed and worked together on the work, but Furtwängler’s death on November 30, 1954 made the tour fail. Erik Then-Bergh then played this concert almost 4 years later, on January 25, 1958 in the concert hall of the Hochschule für Musik Berlin with the Berliner Philharmoniker in homage to Furtwängler. Artur Rother was the conductor. Then-Bergh was not only a pianist, but also a dedicated music teacher. He had been teaching at the Folkwang School of the City of Essen since 1949, from 1952 at the same time and later at the Music Academy in Munich, where he taught until his death.
TRACKLIST
7 Bagatelles, Op. 33 No. 1 in E-Flat Major (Andante grazioso, quasi allegretto) (Beethoven)
7 Bagatelles, Op. 33 No. 4 in A Major (Andante) (Beethoven)
Concerto No. 1 in D minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 15 I. Maestoso (Brahms)
Concerto No. 1 in D minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 15 II. Adagio (Brahms)
Concerto No. 1 in D minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 15 III. Rondo. Allegro non troppo (Brahms)
Keyboard Suite No. 4 in E Minor, HWV 429 I. (Allegro) (Händel)
Keyboard Suite No. 4 in E Minor, HWV 429 II. Allemande (Händel)
Keyboard Suite No. 4 in E Minor, HWV 429 III. Courante (Händel)
Keyboard Suite No. 4 in E Minor, HWV 429 IV. Sarabande (Händel)
Keyboard Suite No. 4 in E Minor, HWV 429 V. Gigue (Händel)
Nocturne No. 17 in B Major, Op. 62, No. 1 (Chopin)
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 Emperor I. Allegro (Beethoven)
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 Emperor II. Adagio un poco mosso (Beethoven)
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 Emperor III. Rondo. Allegro (Beethoven)
Piano Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22 (Schumann)
Piano Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22 II. Andantino (Schumann)
Piano Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22 III. Scherzo (Schumann)
Piano Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22 IV. Rondo (Schumann)
Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101 (Beethoven)
Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101 I. Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfindung (Beethoven)
Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101 III. Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll (Beethoven)
Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101 IV. Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr, und mit Entschlossenheit (Beethoven)
Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 V. Chaconne (Arr. F. Busoni) (Bach)
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