Karl-Heinz Schlüter

Karl-Heinz Schlüter (5 March 1920 – 20 December 1995) was a German classical pianist.

Life Born in Torgau, Schlüter studied from 1931-1937 in Hannover with Rudolf Krasselt and Clara Spitta, then at the Musikhochschule Berlin with Carl Adolf Martienssen until 1940. The duo was a regular guest at European radio stations in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. They played contemporary music such as by Jean Françaix, Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, Rudolf Kelterborn and Martin Christoph Redel. From 1982 to 1992, they conducted an annual master class for piano duo at the Würzburg Musikhochschule.

With Josef Trumm (violoncello) and Cyrill Kopatschka (violin), he performed as part of the Chopin Trio. With Marcel Charpentier (violin) and Eckard Stahl (violoncello), he founded the Osnabrück Piano Trio. Together with Ludwig Müller-Gronau (violin), Wilhelm Isselmann (viola), and Werner Thomas-Mifune (violoncello), he formed the West German Piano Quartet.

The pianists Magdalena Galka and Ann-Helena Schlüter and the violinist Johanna Schlüter are his daughters.

Schlüter died in Würzburg aged 75.