Karl Hermann Pillney

Karl Hermann Pillney (8 April 1896 – 10 April 1980) was an Austrian composer and concert pianist.

Life Born in Graz, Pillney, son of a harpist and chamber musician, attended the . After the Abitur in 1915, he went to the Konservatorium in Köln, where he studied with Hermann Abendroth among others. After the "Machtergreifung" by the Nazis, Pillney was nevertheless accepted as a member of the NSDAP on 1 April 1933 and registered under the number 1.785.769, but was excluded again from 1934 to 1937. in which he varies the hit Was machst Du mit dem Knie, lieber Hans in different classical styles.

Pillney died in Bergisch Gladbach at the age of 84.

Works Arrangement of the Variationen und Fuge über ein Thema by Max Reger for piano and orchestra (premiere in Cologne, 1924) Arrangement of J. S. Bach's The Musical Offering Christus, Motets 1928 Von Freitag bis Donnerstag, Operneinakter 1931 Musik für Klavier und Orchester, 1932 Completion of the final fugue of J. S. Bach's The Art of Fugue Cadence (Fugato) to the last movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor Eskapaden eines Gassenhauers, 1968

Students Jürg Baur Egon Sarabèr, author of Methode und Praxis der Musikgestaltung, 2011 Eckart Sellheim.

Literature In dulci jubilo sechs alte Weihnachtslieder; für eine Singstimme, Flöte (Violine), Gambe (Bratsche), Violoncello und Cembalo (Klavier). (1986) Ingrid Marie-Theres Knierbein, Karl Hermann Pillney: Cembalist, Pianist, Komponist aus Bensberg; zum 100. Geburtstag am 8. April 1996, in Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Rheinische Musikgeschichte Mitteilungen 83 (1996) Reinhold Wecker, Karl Hermann Pillney. Künstler, Komponist und Pädagoge. Contributions to the rheinischen Musikgeschichte Vol. 162, Merseburger: Kassel 2002