Amadeus Webersinke

Amadeus Webersinke (1920–2005) was a German pianist and organist.

The son of a secondary school teacher, he attended high school in Jesenik. Webersinke studied from at the Institut für Kirchenmusik in Leipzig with Karl Straube, Johann Nepomuk David, and Otto Weinreich. He was a lecturer at the Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre and until 1953, he worked mainly as an organist, and later only as a pianist.

Webersinke was particularly devoted to Bach's organ and piano works and also gave concerts on the clavichord. He recorded Max Reger's Piano Concerto (issued in 1973). In 1966, he assumed a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.

• First Prize for Organ at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig (1950)
• National Prize of the GDR, 3rd Class (1950)
• Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau (1974)
• Distinguished University Teacher of the GDR (1980)
• Star of People's Friendship in Gold (1988)
• Saxon Order of Merit (2000)

• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (eds.): *Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ/DDR. 1945–1990.* Vol. 2: *Maassen – Zylla.* K. G. Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0, p. 982.
• Ingo Harden: "Amadeus Webersinke." In: Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes: *Pianistenprofile: 600 Interpreten: ihre Biografie, ihr Stil, ihre Aufnahmen.* Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1616-5, pp. 766–767.

• knerger.de – his grave
• Bach-cantatas.com – Amadeus Webersinke