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- Widmann
- Fantasie
- Viola concerto
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1973-06-19
composer
Discography
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Jörg Widmann was born in Munich in 1973. He studied the clarinet first with Gerd Starke at the Munich Hochschule für Musik and later with Charles Neidich at the Juilliard School in New York. His great passion being chamber music, he regularly makes music with partners such as Tabea Zimmermann, Heinz Holliger, András Schiff, Kim Kashkashian, Hélène Grimaud. As a soloist, he guest-performs with major orchestras at home and abroad and has given concerts with conductors such as Christoph von Dohnány
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jörg
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Munich
- Sibling
- Carolin Widmann
- Occupation
- conductor
- Educated at
- Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe
- Employer
- Barenboim–Said Akademie
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- German
- Field of work
- music
- Instrument
- clarinet
- Official website
- www.joergwidmann.com
- Image
- Jörg Widmann by Vladimir Pavic.jpg
- Work location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
- Residence
- Berlin
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- date of birth
- 1973-06-19
- member of
- Royal Swedish Academy of Music
- name in native language
- Jörg Widmann
- Commons category
- Jörg Widmann
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Jörg Widmann, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana