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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] |
String Quartet
The term string quartet can refer to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two violinists, a violist, and a cellist. The string quartet was developed into its present form by composers such as Franz Xaver Richter, and Joseph Haydn, whose works in the 1750s established the ensemble as a group of four more-or-less equal partners. Since Haydn the string quartet has been considered a prestigious form; writing for four instruments with broadly similar characteristics both constrains and tests a composer. String quartet composition flourished in the Classical era, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert each wrote a number of them. Many Romantic and early-twentieth-century composers composed string quartets, including Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, AntonÃn Dvořák, LeoÅ¡ Janà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jón Leifs
Jón Leifs (born Jón Þorleifsson on 1 May 1899 – 30 July 1968) was an Icelandic composer, pianist, and conductor. Life Jón Leifs was born ''Jón Þorleifsson,'' at the farm Sólheimar, then in the Húnavatnssýsla, northwestern Iceland. He left for Germany in 1916 to study at the Leipzig Conservatory. He graduated in 1921 having studied piano with Robert Teichmüller, but decided not to embark on a career as a pianist, devoting his time instead to conducting and composing. During this period he also studied composition with Ferruccio Busoni, who urged him to "follow his own path in composition". In the 1920s Jón Leifs conducted a number of symphony orchestras in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Norway and Denmark, thus becoming the only internationally successful Icelandic conductor to date, although he failed to obtain a fixed position. During a tour of Norway, the Faroe Islands and Iceland with the Hamburger Philharmoniker, he gave the very first symphonic concerts in Iceland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handel 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] |
Neue Zeit
''Die Neue Zeit'' (German: "The New Times") was a German socialist theoretical journal of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) that was published from 1883 to 1923. Its headquarters was in Stuttgart, Germany. History and profile Founded by leading socialist politicians and theorists, the magazine's first edition was released on 1 January 1883. After the abolition of the Anti-Socialist Laws, the magazine was transformed from a monthly into a weekly on 1 October 1890. In 1901 it became the official magazine of the SPD and its property. The magazine's decline and end came with the hyperinflation of the 1920s. It became the most important organ of the SPD, competing with '' Sozialistische Monatshefte''. It was edited by Karl Kautsky and Emanuel Wurm until their withdrawal from the SPD in 1917. Following that, Heinrich Cunow took over as its chief editor. ''Die Neue Zeit'' was succeeded by ', of which the first issue was published on 1 April 1924. Austrian socialist theore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutscher Tonkünstlerverband
The Deutscher Tonkünstlerverband is the oldest and largest professional association for musicians in Germany. The umbrella organization with headquarters in Munich and a branch office in Passau is the professional representative for all music professions (performers, conductors, composers, music educators Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ..., and university and music teachers), representing approximately 8,300 members. The organization was established in 1847. References External linksOfficial Website* {{Authority control Music education in Germany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Buchholz
Thomas Walter Buchholz (born 27 August 1961) is a German composer and music educator. Life Buchholz was born in 1961 in Eisenach as the son of the oratorio singer and vocal pedagogue Kurt Wichmann and the concert pianist and music teacher Jutta Buchholz ''née'' Gensty. His father was editor of the vocal school of Pier Francesco Tosi. Buchholz went to school in Eisenach and from the age of six years he received lessons in singing, piano, organ and music theory at the ''Eisenacher Musikschule''. Afterwards he trained as a piano maker at the Pianofortefabrik in Leipzig. Afterwards he worked as piano tuner in Eisenach and as musical instrument restorer at the Michaelstein Abbey in Blankenburg. From 1983 to 1988 Buchholz studied singing with Rudi Ploß, musical composition with Günter Neubert and music education with Hans-Georg Mehlhorn at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. From 1988 to 1992 he was for composition with Ruth Zechlin at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hallische Musiktage
The Hallische Musiktage are a festival specialised on contemporary music, based in Halle (Saale). Founded in 1955, it is held annually in November, the second-oldest German festival of contemporary music after the Donaueschinger Musiktage. Hans Stieber Prize From 1977, the Hans Stieber Prize was given to young composers. It is named after Hans Stieber, a composer born in Naumburg who founded a music school there. Artistic directors Artistic directors of the festivals included: * Ottmar Gerster (1955–1956) * Ernst Hermann Meyer * Walther Siegmund-Schultze * Hans Jürgen Wenzel * Gerd Domhardt (1989–1994) * Johannes Reiche (1994–1995) * Thomas Buchholz (from 1995) Venues Festival events have been held at: * Bartholomäuskirche * Franckesche Stiftungen * Handel House * Kulturinsel Halle * Kabarett „Die Kiebitzensteiner“ * Ulrichkirche * Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen * Moritzburg * Neue Residenz * Halle Opera House * Volkspark Artists The German and intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 a center of Handel studies and performance in Europe. Especially Handel's operas have been staged regularly, some of them as first revivals. History The first Handel Festival in Halle was conducted in 1922,George Frideric Handel Halle feiert den "Weltbürger Händel" MDR 2009 three years ... [...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] |
Leo Spies
Leo Spies (4 June 1899 – 1 May 1965) was a Russian-born German composer and conductor active in the musical and theatrical life of Germany, and especially in Berlin. Life and career Spies was born in Moscow to a German diplomat and his wife. He had an older brother Walter Spies, who became an artist and musicologist, and from 1923 lived in Indonesia (then Dutch who spent most of his career in Bali, and sister Daisy Spies, who became a ballet dancer. He and his siblings were educated in Moscow before the family returned to Germany, where they settled in Dresden. There Spies trained with Johannes Schreyer and Oskar von Riesemann. He studied at the under Engelbert Humperdinck and Robert Kahn from 1916 to 1917. In his early career Spies worked as a repetiteur in various German theatres and for Universum Film AG. During the late 1920s, he became involved with Hanns Eisler's circle and the workers' choral movement, for which he composed several choral works. He was the ballet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences. Its headquarters are located in Bloomington, Indiana. IU Press publishes 140 new books annually, in addition to 39 academic journals, and maintains a current catalog comprising some 2,000 titles. Indiana University Press primarily publishes in the following areas: African, African American, Asian, cultural, Jewish, Holocaust, Middle Eastern studies, Russian and Eastern European, and women's and gender studies; anthropology, film studies, folklore, history, bioethics, music, paleontology, philanthropy, philosophy, and religion. IU Press undertakes extensive regional publishing under its Quarry Books imprint. History IU Press began in 1950 as part of Indiana University's post-war growth under President Herman B Wells. Bernard Perry, son of Harvard philosophy professor Ralph Barton Perry, served as the first d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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