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KRAPP, EDGAR Edgar Krapp was born in Bamberg and received his first organ
lessons at the age of ten as a member of the Regensburger
Domspatzen. Later he studied with Franz Lehrndorfer at the
Munich Musikhochschule and with Marie-Claire Alain in Paris.
After winning first prize at the international music competition of
the ARD in 1971, he began his career as concert organist and
educationalist. Since then he has performed in many European
countries, in America and in Japan. His broad repertoire,
including works ranging from the early organ literature to the
modern age, is documented on many records, radio and television
recordings which for the most part were made with historical
instruments. Edgar Krapp has rendered particularly outstanding
service to the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach, which he
has previously performed as a cycle in Frankfurt, Nuremberg, at
the Rheingau Music Festival and in Munich (the latter with a live
broadcast). The main emphasis of his work lies in concert
performances with orchestra conducted by such distinguished
musicians as Rafael Kubelik, Georges Prêtre, Colin Davis, Lorin
Maazel, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Horst Stein and Christoph
Eschenbach, with whom, among others, he has performed the
organ concertos by Handel, the organ symphonies by Camille
Saint-Saëns and Alexandre Guilmant, the organ concertos by
Francis Poulenc, Paul Hindemith and Harald Genzmer, as well as
premières including the works for organ and orchestra by Günter
Bialas, Hans Jürgen von Bose and Rafael Kubelik. He has collaborated with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Bamberg Symphonica, the German Symphony
Orchestra Berlin, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the ORF Orchestra Vienna and the Vienna Symphonica,
among others. From 1974 to 1993, Edgar Krapp taught at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule, where he succeeded
Helmut Walcha. He was a guest professor from 1982 to 1991 at the Salzburg Mozarteum. In 1993 he joined the
Munich Musikhochschule. In recognition of his artistic and educational services, he was awarded the Frankfurt
Music Prize, the E.T.A. Hoffmann Prize of the town of Bamberg as well as the Friedrich Baur Prize. He is a member
of the directorate of the Neue Bachgesellschaft Leipzig and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
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