Renate Kretschmar-Fischer (1 June 1925 – 4 September 2016[1]) was a German pianist and piano professor at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold.
She was a scholarship holder for several years at the Music Summer School in Bryanston in England, where Artur Schnabel, Monique Haas, George Enescu, Nadja Boulanger and Igor Stravinsky taught.
[3] During her more than 40 years of activity at this academy, she taught young pianists from numerous countries, for example Birgitta Wollenweber, Peter Kreutz, Christian Köhn, Matthias Kirschnereit, Heidrun Holtmann, Stephan Imorde, Babette Dorn, Constantin Alex, Beatrice Berthold, Caroline Weichert, Volker Banfield and Silke-Thora Matthies, many of whom now teach as professors themselves.
She has been a jury member at numerous national and international competitions and has given master classes in Europe and Japan.
[4] Married with the concert and oratorio singer Helmut Kretschmar, Kretschmar-Fischer died in Hamburg at the age of 91.