Helmut Roloff
Helmut Roloff was born in Gießen, Hesse, Germany on October 9th, 1912 and is the Pianist. At the age of 88, Helmut Roloff biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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After the end of the war in 1945, Roloff found a position in the re-established Berlin Academy of Music (Hochschule für Musik Berlin) in Charlottenburg. He was appointed professor in 1950, full professor in 1953, and director of the school in 1970. In 1975 the school was incorporated in the Berlin University of Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin) of which Roloff, on his retirement in 1978, was made an honorary senator.
Roloff worked as a concert pianist and piano teacher throughout his life. He championed the modernists denied performance during the Third Reich. Six months from the end of the war, Berliner Rundfunk broadcast Roloff playing Sergei Prokofiev. From the summer of 1947 he led seminars in contemporary music at the new International Institute for Music in Darmstadt beginning with performances of Paul Hindemith and Manuel de Falla. But above all Roloff cultivated the classical-romantic repertoire. For Deutsche Grammaphon he recorded Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Weber and Schubert.
In 1990, Roloff received the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, from the Japanese government for his contributions to Japanese music, including teaching Takahiro Sonoda, Toyoaki Matsuura and other Japanese pianists.
Helmut Roloff died in his home in Berlin on 29 September 2001. He was survived by his wife Inge Roloff, his sons Stefan Roloff (artist and film maker), Ulrich Roloff (flutist), and Johannes Roloff (pianist).
Stefan Roloff wrote a wartime biography of his father and of the Red Orchestra, published by the Ullstein Press in 2004. His film documentary, The Red Orchestra, was nominated for Best Foreign Film 2005 by the US Women Critics Circle.