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Handel Music Prize
The Handel Prize (german: Händel-Preis) is an annual award, instituted in 1956, which is presented by the city of Halle, in Germany, in honour of the celebrated Baroque composer George Frideric Handel. It is awarded, "for exceptional artistic, academic or politico-cultural services as far as these are connected with the city of Halle's Handel commemoration". The prize consists of a diploma, a gold and enamel badge, (and until 2008 10,000 euros in prize money) and is presented during the annual Handel Festival, Halle The Handel Festival (in German: Händel-Festspiele) in Halle an der Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, is an international music festival concentrating on the music of George Frideric Handel in the composer's birthplace. It was founded in 1922 and it grew into .... List of recipients Source Freundes- und Förderkreis des Händel-Hauses zu Halle e.V: References External linksHandel Prize Winner [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halle, Saxony-Anhalt
Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (; from the 15th to the 17th century: ''Hall in Sachsen''; until the beginning of the 20th century: ''Halle an der Saale'' ; from 1965 to 1995: ''Halle/Saale'') is the largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the fifth most populous city in the area of former East Germany after (East) Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz, as well as the 31st largest city of Germany, and with around 239,000 inhabitants, it is slightly more populous than the state capital of Magdeburg. Together with Leipzig, the largest city of Saxony, Halle forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle conurbation. Between the two cities, in Schkeuditz, lies Leipzig/Halle International Airport. The Leipzig-Halle conurbation is at the heart of the larger Central German Metropolitan Region. Halle lies in the south of Saxony-Anhalt, in the Leipzig Bay, the southernmost part of the North German Plain, on the River Saale (a tributary of the Elbe), which is the third longest river flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Schneider (music Historian)
Max Schneider (20 July 1875 – 5 May 1967) was a German music historian. Life Born in Eisleben, Schneider studied musicology at the University of Leipzig with Hermann Kretzschmar and Hugo Riemann and composition with Salomon Jadassohn. After his time as second Kapellmeister in Halle from 1897 to 1901, he continued his studies of music history with Kretzschmar. In 1904, he moved to Berlin, where he worked from 1905 to 1915 as a "scientific assistant" at the Alte Bibliothek. At the Royal Music Institute of Berlin, Schneider learnt orchestration and received the title of professor in 1913. In 1915, he accepted a professorship at the University of Breslau; two years later he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on the beginnings of the basso continuo. From 1927, he was director of the in Breslau. In 1928, he succeeded Arnold Schering as professor for musicology at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg. After 1933, Schneider was member of the organizations Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegfried Bimberg
Siegfried Bimberg (5 May 1927 – 2 July 2008) was a German composer, conductor and musicologist Life Born in Halle (Saale), After his return from the war and captivity, Bimberg completed his pedagogical studies. After working briefly at a one-grade rural school, he studied psychology, music education and musicology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. His teachers included among others Max Schneider, Kurt Prautzsch and . In 1953, he was awarded a doctorate from Fritz Reuter at the Faculty of Education with the dissertation ''Untersuchungen zur Hör- und Singfähigkeit in Dur und in Moll. Ein Beitrag zur Musiktheorie und zur Musikpsychologie''. In 1956, Bimberg won his habilitation with a thesis ''Über das Singen der Großterz aufwärts. Ein Beitrag zur Musikpsychologie und Musikästhetik auf der Grundlage elektro-optischer Untersuchungen''. At the same time, Bimberg worked as a publishing editor from 1953 to 1958. In 1957, he took on a lectureship at the Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Röttger
Heinz Martin Albert Röttger (6 November 1909 – 26 August 1977) was a German composer. From 1928 to 1931 Röttger attended the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich, where he studied under Walter Courvoisier and Hugo Röhr. From 1930 to 1934 he studied under Alfred Lorenz and Adolf Sandberger at the University of Munich; his doctoral thesis was on problems of form in the work of Richard Strauss. Until the outbreak of the Second World War he was Kapellmeister in Augsburg, in Bavaria. After the War he worked at the Stralsunder Theater, in Stralsund in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern; in 1951 he became music director of the Volkstheater Rostock and the municipal orchestra there. In 1954 he was made chief musical director of the , in Dessau in Sachsen-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.18 million inhabit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anhaltisches Theater
Anhaltisches Theater Dessau is a theatre in Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, which was called Landestheater Dessau until 1984. It is offering drama, musical theatre (operas, operettas, musicals), ballets, concerts of the orchestra, and puppetry. Today, the theatre has a capacity of around 1100 spectators and is equipped with one of the largest revolving stages in Germany. In October 2013, the theatre was included as ''endangered'' in the of the Deutscher Kulturrat. History Theatre life in Dessau has a long tradition. As early as 1794, there was a permanent theatre ensemble in Dessau. The first venue was the Fürstliche Reitbahn, and the first theatre director was Friedrich Wilhelm Bossann. The Anhalt Philharmonic Orchestra was also founded at this time. By 1798, Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff (Wörlitz Park) erected the first theatre building. As Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau had the theatre closed in 1810 for financial reasons as a result of the events of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Lichtenfeld
Gerhard Lichtenfeld (6 November 1921 – 6 November 1978) was a German sculptor and academic teacher, whose works were installed in public space in the Halle (Saale) and Merseburg districts, and who exhibited internationally. He was awarded the Handel Prize. Life Lichtenfeld was born in Halle (Saale). During service in the Reichsarbeitsdienst, he had an accident in 1940 and lost his left underarm. He studied law, as his father wished, at the University of Halle from 1942 to 1945. After World War II, he worked as a construction labourer. He applied for the sculptors' class of at Burg Giebichenstein, was accepted and studied ''Künstlerische Werkgestaltung'', graduating with a diploma for sculpture in 1952. He then worked as assistant of Weidanz. From 1959, he directed the sculptors' class at the institute, now called Hochschule für industrielle Formgestaltung Halle – Burg Giebichenstein (now: Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design). He was a lecturer there from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Stieber
Hans Albert Oskar Stieber (1 March 1886 – 18 October 1969) was a German conductor, composer and violinist. He was the founding director of the Hochschule für Theater und Musik in Halle an der Saale. Life Origin and family Stieber was born in Naumburg an der Saale in the Prussian Province of Saxony as the eldest of four sons of the lawyer Paul Stieber (1856–1944) and his wife Elsbeth (Else) (1861–1940), ''née'' Biermann. His maternal great-grandmother Friederike Komitsch, ''née'' Schaffner, was an actress at the Schauspielhaus Berlin and married the actor Ludwig Devrient in her first marriage. His grandfather was the jurist Wilhelm Stieber and worked as a police director, privy councillor and head of the ''Central-Nachrichten-Bureaus'' at the in Berlin. His father made it to the 1st director of the Norddeutsche 's pension fund in Halle an der Saale. He also made a name for himself as the founder of a sanatorium. He too was the business manager of the Luther Festival an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Peter Larsen
Jens Peter Larsen (14 June 1902 – 22 August 1988) was a Danish musicologist and Haydn scholar. In addition to serving as general editor of two major editions of Haydn's music, he researched and published important papers on the works of George Frideric Handel's music and on the stylistic authenticity of Baroque and Classical performances A performance is an act of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment. It is also defined as the action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function. Management science In the work place .... References Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog 1902 births 1988 deaths Danish conductors (music) Male conductors (music) Danish musicologists 20th-century musicologists 20th-century conductors (music) 20th-century Danish male musicians {{Denmark-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Hanstedt
Georg Hanstedt (9 October 1904 – 25 March 1975) was a German violinist. He was a long-standing member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, and played in various string quartet formations. In 1934, he became a violinist of the Bayreuth Festival orchestra. He made recordings in the 1960s as second violin of the Schuster Quartet. Life Hanstedt was born in 1904 in Gelsenkirchen as the son of a police station master, Georg Hanstedt, and his wife Elisabeth, ''née'' Wahnes.Hans-Rainer Jung: ''Das Gewandhaus-Orchester. Seine Mitglieder und seine Geschichte seit 1743.'' Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, , . After the Abitur passed at the secondary school in his home town, he studied violin (with Walther Davisson and Hans Bassermann), teaching theory and composition (with Max Ludwig) at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1923 to 1928.Hedwig und Erich Hermann Mueller von Asow (ed.): ''Kürschners deutscher Musiker-Kalender 1954''. 2nd edition of the Deutsches Musiker-Lexikon, de Gruyter, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Schuster Quartet
The Ludwig Schuster Quartet was a string quartet from Halle (Saale) active in the 1950s and 1960s. It was named after first violin Ludwig Schuster (concertmaster at the Landestheater Halle). Members Members of the ensemble were Ludwig Schuster (1st violin), Adam Busch and Georg Hanstedt (2nd violin), Walter Ziegler (viola) and Otto Kleist (cello).Hansjürgen Schaefer: ''Berliner Festtage 1957. Musik von Ottmar Gerster''. ''Berliner Zeitung'', 11 October 1957, Jg. 13, History According to Konstanze Musketa "it played a pioneering role in the field of Neue Musik". Thus it premiered several pieces, among others the String Quartet No. 8 "Die Nachgeburt" by Max Butting (1958), the String Quartet No. 1 by Gerhard Wohlgemuth (1960), the 2nd string quartet "Mors et Vita" by Jón Leifs (1960), the String Quartet No. 2 by Leo Spies (1964) and the String Quartet in E major by Hans Stieber (1965). In Halle (Saale) it performed regularly as part of the Händel Festival. and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Wohlgemuth
Gerhard Wohlgemuth (16 March 1920 in Frankfurt – 26 October 2001 in Halle (Saale)) was a German composer and literary editor. He wrote several film scores. on FilmDienst Film scores * '' Der kleine Kuno'' (1959) * '' Doctor Ahrendt's Decision'' (1959) * ''Mord an Rathenau'' (1961) * '' The Adventures of Werner Holt'' (1964) * ''Die Ohrfeige'' (1966/67) * '' Rotkäppche ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horst Förster
Horst may refer to: Science * Horst (geology), a raised fault block bounded by normal faults or graben People * Horst (given name) * Horst (surname) * ter Horst, Dutch surname * van der Horst, Dutch surname Places Settlements Germany * Horst, Steinburg, a municipality in the district of Steinburg in Schleswig-Holstein * Horst, Lauenburg, a municipality in the district of Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein * Horst, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a village and district in the municipality of Sundhagen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern * , a district in the city of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia * , a town in the municipality of Seevetal, Lower Saxony Netherlands * Horst aan de Maas, a municipality in the province of Limburg ** Horst, Limburg, the municipal seat of Horst aan de Maas * , a hamlet in the municipality of Ermelo, Gelderland * , a village in the municipality of Gilze en Rijen, North Brabant * Schothorst, , and , districts in the city and municipality of Amersfoort, Utrecht Pola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
