Yoram Paporisz was born in 1944, February 13th, in Kozłów, Poland.
He began his musical education under Ludomir Różycki in Katowice; then he studied from 1962 to 1965 at the Music Academy in Tel Aviv under Alexander Uriah Boskovitch , and then in Milan with Franco Donatoni and in Freiburg with Wolfgang Fortner.
Since 1965 he lived as a composer in Germany.
He has written over 40 compositions, mainly for the piano from 2 to 8 hands, and chamber music.
Yoram Paporisz received the following prizes: at the Boswil’s competition in, Swiss, for his string quartet “October 71”; the prize of the Art Society of Stuttgart, Germany, for his life musical work. In 1984 he also received a prize in acknowledgement of his career from the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung in Baden-Baden, Germany.
Yoram Paporisz died in Freiburg in September 1992.
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A little personal note about this composer: Few Years ago, my elder son was starting to play the piano. My first and natural choice was to let him playing Béla Bartók’s Mikrokosmos, but then, in a conversation with my dear friend (and great musician and pianist) C-C. S, I was suggested to take a look to Paporisz’s Entdeckungen. I didn’t know at all those pieces and I didn’t know at all the composer’a name. So I was really curious, after few weeks of search I was able to get the music in a second hand bookshop in Holland, but unluckily by the time I got the music in my hands, my son stopped to play the piano.. But anyway and really luckily I started to play by myself these pieces and, since then, I never stopped to be surprised and delighted from them. The few lines above are the only traces I was able to find about the biography of this composer.
And a final note about “Entdeckungen” (Discoveries): according to the composer work’s list and according to the preface of the volumes the whole work should be composed by 5 volumes. Nevertheless, and as far as I know, I never get the opportunity to get or see the last volume, and I never had the chance to be sure about the existence of the 5th volume.
The image before the music is from M. M., and we would like to thank him for his kind permission to reproduce his painting.
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