Roland Weber played the world premiere of the improvisation for piano trio by Bertold Hummel op. 9,2

Biography

Roland Weber, born in Freiburg in 1925, studied with Julius Weismann and from 1946 at the Hochschule für Musik with Harald Genzmer and Konrad Lechner. After a brief interlude in the theatre, he became a theory teacher at the Darmstadt Academy of Music in 1954 and moved to the Karlsruhe University of Music in 1966, where he taught theory and composition. Weber wrote instrumental concertos with orchestra (for violoncello in 1962, for violin in 1969, for piano in 1972, for violin and violoncello in 1983), a string quartet (1982) and many songs and chamber music works: Two piano trios (1964 and 1976), sonatas for flute (1974), for violoncello (1979), for violin (1977) each with piano, Six Hölderlin Songs (1966), Eight Morning Star Songs (1983), "Urworte Orphisch" after Goethe for baritone and twelve instruments (1978), five mixed choirs (1965). An opera "Der letzte König von Orplid" after Mörike remains a fragment. He wrote his last work, "An die Musik" for string orchestra based on the poem of the same name by Rainer Maria Rilke, in 2002.