Miklós Spányi

Miklós Spányi is one of the most famous researchers and interpreter of the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. He has recorded C. P. E. Bach’s complete piano concerts (20 CDs), and his complete recording of the Solo Keyboard Works by this composer will be finished soon as well (40 CDs published so far). He is also editor of many of C. P. E. Bach’s works.

Miklós Spányi has studied organ, harpsichord and pianoforte at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Ferenc Gergely and János Sebestyén as well as at the Royal Conservatory Antwerp with Jos van Immerseel and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Hedwig Bilgram. He concerted in many European countries and in the USA on the organ, harpsichord, clavichord, tangent piano and pianoforte and won at the international Cembalo Competitions in Nantes (1984) and Paris (1987).

Spányi was artistic director of the Hungarian baroque orchestra Concerto Armonico since its creation. As a solo artist and with his ensemble, Miklós Spányi has recorded numerous CDs for different European labels.

Between 1990 and 2012, he taught at the Oulu Conservatory, Finland and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He now teaches at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts, the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and the Amsterdam University of the Arts.

Miklós Spányi is also known as an improvisor and composer.

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