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Gerhard Bosse
Gerhard Bosse (23 January 1922 – 1 February 2012) was a German violinist and conductor. Life Bosse was born in Wurzen in 1922 as son of the military musician Oskar Bosse (1893-1979) and grew up in Greiz. He received his first violin lessons from his father at the age of six. From 1930 he was instructed by the Konzertmeister of the Reußische Hofkapelle. He went to Leipzig in 1936 and attended Edgar Wollgandt's classes. After graduating from high school in 1940 he studied violin with Walther Davisson at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. Already during his studies he was engaged as a substitute with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. In 1943 he was appointed to the Reichs-Bruckner-Orchester in Linz and played under conductors like Karl Böhm, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Carl Schuricht, Herbert von Karajan, Oswald Kabasta and Joseph Keilberth. He also studied singing at the Linz Conservatory. From 1948 to 1951 he was concertmaster of the Small Radio Orchestra Weimar. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary duties of the conductor are to interpret the score in a way which reflects the specific indications in that score, set the tempo, ensure correct entries by ensemble members, and "shape" the phrasing where appropriate. Conductors communicate with their musicians primarily through hand gestures, usually with the aid of a baton, and may use other gestures or signals such as eye contact. A conductor usually supplements their direction with verbal instructions to their musicians in rehearsal. The conductor typically stands on a raised podium with a large music stand for the full score, which contains the musical notation for all the instruments or voices. Since the mid-19th century, most conductors have not played an instrument when conducting, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
The MDR-Sinfonieorchester (in English, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra) is a German radio orchestra based in Leipzig. It is the radio orchestra of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, the public broadcaster for the German states of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. It is one of the oldest Radio orchestras in the world and the oldest in Germany. It was founded in Leipzig, Germany in 1923 (9 months earlier than the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra). Apart from a short interruption during World War II, it has been the main orchestra of the Central German Broadcasting Company (MDR) since 1924. The orchestra performs concerts in Leipzig at the Gewandhaus. History The orchestra was founded as "Orchester des Konzertvereins" ("Orchestra of the Concert Society"). It became the "Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig" ("Radio Symphony Orchestra Leipzig") in 1924 and later adopted its present name. The Orchestra was dissolved during World War II and reunited in 1946 under the tenure of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dietmar Hallmann
Dietmar Hallmann (born 5 April 1935) is a German musician who was professor for viola and chamber music at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. Life Hallmann was born in Breslau.After the Second World War Hallmann moved to Burkhardtsdorf. From 1954 to 1957 he studied music with violin as his main subject with Gerhard Bosse in Leipzig. First he was first List of classical violinists, violinist in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. From 1960 to 1996 he was solo (music), solo violist there. At the same time he was active in the Gewandhaus Quartet from 1958 to 1993. He was co-founder of the Bach Orchestra of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. As a soloist, his work was devoted to the works New Music in addition to the classical repertoire. composers and their premieres mostly with the Gewandhaus Orchestra. The spectrum of musical encounters ranges from Wilhelm Backhaus, Elly Ney, Claudio Arrau, Leopold Stokowski, Franz Konwitschny, David Oistrach, Leonid Kogan, Sviatoslav Richt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Christian Bartel
Hans-Christian Bartel (born 27 November 1932 − 27 December 2014) was a German violist and composer. Life Born in Altenburg, Bartel was the son of a teacher. He got his first violin lessons at the age of six. After graduating from high school he studied violin and viola with Gerhard Bosse and music composition with Ottmar Gerster at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 1951 to 1956. In 1954 he changed from violin to viola. He received further impulses in piano with and music history with Ernst Hermann Meyer. From 1956 to 1958 he was a lecturer for composition, music theory, theory of forms and earning training at the . From 1958 to 1996 he was a member of the Gewandhaus orchestra and from 1959 its solo violist. In 1970 he was co-founder and until 1978 member of the Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler of the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra. Bartel has worked as composer among others with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Rafael Kubelík, Kurt Masur and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takatsuki
is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is located in northern Osaka's Hokusetsu region. As of 2020, the city had an estimated population of 347,944 and a population density of 3,300 persons per km². The total area is 105.31 km². The city was founded on January 1, 1943, and is situated almost directly between Kyoto and Osaka. Owing to the convenience of being 13 and 15 minutes by train from these two cities respectively, the city prospered and has developed with increasing rapidity to become one of the biggest commuter towns in the area, serving both Kyoto and Osaka. Culturally, Takatsuki is renowned for its Imashirozuka Kofun (burial mound). Earthenware funerary objects (haniwa) discovered around this mound include figurines of warriors almost certainly placed with a protective purpose (The form of such a warrior was used as the design basis for the city's official mascot character, Hanitan). Takatsuki is also known for its Takatsuki Jazz Festival, held every year in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Director
A music(al) director or director of music is the person responsible for the musical aspects of a performance, production, or organization. This would include the artistic director and usually chief conductor of an orchestra or concert band, the director of music of a film, the director of music at a radio station, the person in charge of musical activities or the head of the music department in a school, the coordinator of the musical ensembles in a university, college, or institution (but not usually the head of the academic music department), the head bandmaster of a military band, the head organist and choirmaster of a church, or an organist and master of the choristers (the title given to a director of music at a cathedral, particularly in England). Orchestra The title of "music director" or "musical director" is used by many symphony orchestras to designate the primary conductor and artistic leader of the orchestra. The term "music director" is most common for orchestras in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo University Of The Arts
or is the most prestigious art school in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained renowned artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, crafts, inter-media, sound, music composition, traditional instruments, art curation and global arts. History Under the establishment of the National School Establishment Law, the university was formed in 1949 by the merger of the and the , both founded in 1887. The former Tokyo Fine Arts School was then restructured as the Faculty of Fine Arts under the university. Originally male-only, the school began to admit women in 1946. The graduate school opened in 1963, and began offering doctoral degrees in 1977. The doctoral degree in fine art practice initiated in the 1980s was one of the earliest programs to do so globally. After the abolition of the National School Establishment Law and the formation of the National University Corp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Japan Philharmonic
The is a symphony orchestra based in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1972 with Seiji Ozawa as honorary conductor laureate. The Philharmonic's primary concert venue is the Sumida Triphony Hall. From 2003 to 2013 its music director was Christian Arming. Toshiyuki Kamioka has been the music director since 2016.New Japan PhilharmonicConductors/ref> Their video game performances include songs for the '' Super Smash Bros. Melee'' orchestral arrangement soundtrack '' Smashing...Live!'', Resident Evil's music in '' Resident Evil Orchestra'', orchestral arrangements by Kaoru Wada for the '' Kingdom Hearts Original Soundtrack'', the music of Go Shiina from '' Tales of Legendia'', and the first stop, Yokohama, on ''Final Fantasy''s Tour de Japon. On May 6, 2009, the 5th Anniversary Monster Hunter Orchestral Concert took place at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The orchestra is also known for their film soundtrack productions, notably ''Spirited Away'' and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachorchester Zu Leipzig
The Bachorchester zu Leipzig (sometimes also ''Bachorchester Leipzig'', formerly ''Bachorchester des Gewandhauses zu Leipzig'') is a chamber orchestra made up of musicians from the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, which performs music by Johann Sebastian Bach and other masters of Baroque and pre-Classical music. Its director is Christian Funke. History Gewandhauskapellmeister Franz Konwitschny performed Bach's six '' Brandenburg Concertos'' with a small cast of the Gewandhaus Orchestra to great acclaim at the Bachfest Leipzig in 1962. This was Konwitschny's last conducting in Leipzig before his death the same year. The concertmaster of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, Gerhard Bosse, continuing Konwitschny's legacy, established the small ensemble in 1963 as the "Bach Orchestra of the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig" during the period without a chief conductor. This orchestra subsequently undertook several concert tours abroad in the West, including as one of the first GDR ensembles to the FRG afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gewandhaus Quartet
The Gewandhaus Quartet (German: Gewandhaus-Quartett) is a string quartet based in Leipzig. It was founded in 1808 by members of the Gewandhaus Orchester, as one of the first professional quartets in the world. In its more than 200-year history, they played many world premieres. History In 1808, members of the Gewandhaus Orchester formed a string quartet, possibly following the model of the Schuppanzigh Quartet from Vienna, to play quartets mainly by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Since then, it has been formed by concertmasters and players of the orchestra. Players The original players were Heinrich August Matthäi (1781–1835), who is considered the quartet's founder, Bartolomeo Campagnoli (1751–1827), who was concertmaster at the time, violist Johann Georg Hermann Voigt (1769–1811) and cellist Friedrich Dotzauer (1783–1860). After Matthäi died in 1835, Ferdinand David (1810–1873) succeeded him, both as quartet primariu and as concertmaster. In the course of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Masur
Kurt Masur (18 July 1927 – 19 December 2015) was a German conductor. Called "one of the last old-style maestros", he directed many of the principal orchestras of his era. He had a long career as the Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and also served as music director of the New York Philharmonic. He left many recordings of classical music played by major orchestras. Masur is also remembered for his actions to support peaceful demonstrations in the 1989 anti-government demonstrations in Leipzig; the protests were part of the events leading up to the fall of the Berlin wall. Biography Masur was born in Brieg, Lower Silesia, Germany (now Brzeg, Poland), and studied piano, composition and conducting in Leipzig, Saxony. His father was an electrical engineer, and as a young boy he completed an electrician's apprenticeship; he occasionally worked in his father's shop. From ages 10 to 16, he took piano lessons with Katharina Hartmann. In October 1944 the Nazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
