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Lothar Zagrosek
Lothar Zagrosek (born 13 November 1942 in Otting, Germany) is a German conductor. As a youth, he sang in the Regensburg Cathedral choir, including performances as the First Boy in ''The Magic Flute'' at the 1954 Salzburg Festival. From 1962 to 1967, Zagrosek studied conducting with Hans Swarowsky, István Kertész, Bruno Maderna and Herbert von Karajan. Zagrosek was chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1982 to 1986. He was principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 1988. Between 1990 and 1992, he conducted regularly at the Leipzig Opera. In 1995, he became principal guest conductor of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. From 1997 to 2006, he was chief conductor at the Württemberg opera house in Stuttgart. From 2006 to 2011, he was chief conductor of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the former Berlin Symphony Orchestra (''Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester''). Selected recordings Among Zagrosek's commercial recordings are several issues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lothar Zagrosek Dirigiert Orfeo Ed Euridice Konzerthaus Berlin © Bernd Uhlig
Lothar is a Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish masculine given name, while Lotár is a Hungarian masculine given name. Both names are modern forms of the Germanic Chlothar (which is a blended form of ''Hlūdaz'', meaning "fame", and ''Harjaz'', meaning "army"). Notable people with this name include: Surname * Ernst Lothar (1890–1974), Moravian-Austrian writer * Hanns Lothar or Hanns Lothar Neutze (1929–1967), German actor * Mark Lothar (1902–1985), German composer * Rudolf Lothar (1865–1943), Hungarian-born Austrian writer * Susanne Lothar (1960–2012), German actress Given name * Lothar Ahrendt (born 1936), former interior minister of the German Democratic Republic * Lothar Albrich (1905–1978), Romanian hurdler * Lothar Baumgarten (1944–2018), German artist * Lothar Berg (1930–2015), German mathematician * Lothar Bolz (1903–1986), East German politician * Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918–2007), German author * Lothar Collatz (1910–1990), Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Degenerate Music
Degenerate music (german: Entartete Musik, link=no, ) was a label applied in the 1930s by the government of Nazi Germany to certain forms of music that it considered harmful or decadent. The Nazi government's concerns about degenerate music were a part of its larger and better-known campaign against degenerate art (german: Entartete Kunst, link=no). In both cases, the government attempted to isolate, discredit, discourage, or ban the works. Racial emphasis Jewish composers such as Felix Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler were disparaged and condemned by the Nazis. In Leipzig, a bronze statue of Mendelssohn was removed. The regime commissioned music to replace his incidental music to '' A Midsummer Night's Dream''. Though the Nazis wanted to discredit Jewish artists because of their ethnicity, they also wanted to have a better reason . The excuse was that some music was "anti-German" and that was why some songs needed to be banned . The certainty of this philosophy was contrasted by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Geburtstag Der Infantin
''Der Geburtstag der Infantin'' is a “dance-pantomime” in one act by Austrian composer Franz Schreker, based on the Oscar Wilde novella ''The Birthday of the Infanta''. Background The work was commissioned by the sisters Elsa and Grete Wiesenthal, two former apprentice dancers from the Vienna Court Opera.Christopher Hailey: 'Franz Schreker: A cultural biography' (Cambridge University Press, 1993) The work was composed in just ten days and first performed in Vienna on 27 June 1908 as part of the ‘Kunstschau’ organised by the group of artists around Gustav Klimt. It brought Schreker widespread recognition and led to the offer of a publishing contract with Universal Edition.Christopher Hailey: introduction to published score (UE 31426) The composer revised the score in 1910, adding an extra scene near the beginning (‘Die Infantin’) and rewriting the final scene. Instrumentation The ballet is scored for a chamber orchestra of two flutes (second doubling piccolo), two oboe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Gezeichneten
' (''The Branded'' or ''The Stigmatized'') is an opera in three acts by Franz Schreker with a German-language libretto by the composer. Composition history Schreker wrote the libretto in 1911 at the request of composer Alexander Zemlinsky based on the 1904 play ''Hidalla'' by German playwright Frank Wedekind. However, Schreker decided to set the text himself, and completed the opera in 1915. The score was first published by Universal Edition Vienna. Performance history An expanded concert version of the overture to the opera, entitled "", was performed at the Vienna Musikverein on 8 February 1914 by the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Felix Weingartner. The complete opera was first performed on 25 April 1918 by the Oper Frankfurt, conducted by Ludwig Rottenberg. It established Schreker as the pre-eminent opera composer of his generation and won him the support of Germany's foremost music critic Paul Bekker. Before the composer's music was banned in 1933, due to his Jewi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Schreker
Franz Schreker (originally ''Schrecker''; 23 March 1878 – 21 March 1934) was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, Schreker developed a style characterized by aesthetic plurality (a mixture of Romanticism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit), timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and conception of total music theatre into the narrative of 20th-century music. Formative years He was born as Franz Schrecker in Monaco, the eldest son of the Bohemian Jewish court photographer Ignaz Schrecker, and his wife, Eleonore von Clossmann, who was a member of the Catholic aristocracy of Styria. He grew up during travels across half of Europe and, after the early death of his father, the family moved from Linz to Vienna (1888) where in 1892, with the help of a scholarship, Schreker entered the Vienna Conservatory. Starting with violin studies, with Sigismund Bachrich and Arnold R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Krenek
Ernst Heinrich Krenek (, 23 August 1900 – 22 December 1991) was an Austrian, later American, composer of Czech origin. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including ''Music Here and Now'' (1939), a study of Johannes Ockeghem (1953), and ''Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music'' (1974). Krenek wrote two pieces using the pseudonym Thornton Winsloe. Life Born Ernst Heinrich Křenek in Vienna (then in Austria-Hungary), he was the son of a Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army. He studied there and in Berlin with Franz Schreker before working in a number of German opera houses as conductor. During World War I, Krenek was drafted into the Austrian army, but he was stationed in Vienna, allowing him to go on with his musical studies. In 1922 he met Alma Mahler, widow of Gustav Mahler, and her daughter, Anna, to whom he dedicated his Symphony No. 2, and whom he married in January 1924. That marriage ended in divorce before its first anni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verlobung Im Traum
''Verlobung im Traum'' (Betrothal in a Dream) (1928–30) is a German-language opera in two acts by Czech composer Hans Krása with a libretto by Rudolf Fuchs and Rudolf Thomas after the novel Uncle's Dream by Feodor Dostoyevsky. Performance history The opera was premiered on 18 May 1933 at the Neues deutsches Theater in Prague under George Szell. Later that year, the work was awarded the Czechoslovak State Prize.Paula Kennedy: booklet notes to Decca recording in 'Entartete Musik' series, 1996. Synopsis The action takes place in Mordasov, a small Russian town, around 1850. Prologue The archivist of Mordasov relates how writer Feodor Dostoevsky has recently paid a visit, researching the life of a certain Zina, a beautiful girl who once lived in the town, for a forthcoming novel. Act I Zina is in love with Fedya, a political revolutionary who is on the run from the authorities. Her overbearing mother, Maria Alexandrowna, learns than an aging Prince is visiting the town and sees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Krása
Hans Krása (30 November 1899 – 17 October 1944) was a Czech composer, murdered during the Holocaust at Auschwitz. He helped to organize cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp. Life Hans Krása was born in Prague, the son of Anna (Steiner) and Karl Krasa, a lawyer. His father was a Czech Jew and his mother was German Jewish. He studied both the piano and violin as a child and went on to study composition at the German Music Academy in Prague. After graduating, he went on to become a répétiteur at the Neues Deutsches Theater, where he met the composer and conductor Alexander von Zemlinsky, who had a major influence on Krása's career. In 1927 he followed Zemlinsky to Berlin, where he was introduced to Albert Roussel. Krása, whose primary influences were Mahler, Schoenberg and Zemlinsky, also felt an affinity with French music, especially the group of composers known as ''Les Six'' and made a number of trips to France to study under Roussel while he lived in B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Dämon
Der or DER may refer to: Places * Darkənd, Azerbaijan * Dearborn (Amtrak station) (station code), in Michigan, US * Der (Sumer), an ancient city located in modern-day Iraq * d'Entrecasteaux Ridge, an oceanic ridge in the south-west Pacific Ocean Science and technology * Derivative chromosome, a structurally rearranged chromosome * Distinguished Encoding Rules, a method for encoding a data object, including public key infrastructure certificates and keys * Distributed Energy Resources * ∂, the partial derivative symbol *Deep energy retrofit, an energy conservation measure Organizations * Digital Education Revolution, former Australian Government-funded educational reform program * DER rental (Domestic Electric Rentals Ltd), a UK television rentals company * Documentary Educational Resources, a non-profit film producer and distributor Other uses *Defence (Emergency) Regulations, legal regulations promulgated by the British in Mandatory Palestine in 1945 *Department of Environ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith (; 16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advocate of the ''Neue Sachlichkeit'' (new objectivity) style of music in the 1920s, with compositions such as '' Kammermusik'', including works with viola and viola d'amore as solo instruments in a neo-Bachian spirit. Other notable compositions include his song cycle ''Das Marienleben'' (1923), ''Der Schwanendreher'' for viola and orchestra (1935), the opera ''Mathis der Maler'' (1938), the '' Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber'' (1943), and the oratorio ''When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd'', a requiem based on Walt Whitman's poem (1946). Life and career Hindemith was born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, the eldest child of the painter and decorator Robert Hindemith from Lower Silesia and his wife Marie Hindemith, née Warnecke. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Gewaltige Hahnrei
''Der gewaltige Hahnrei'' is an opera by German composer Berthold Goldschmidt based on ''Le Cocu Magnifique'' by Fernand Crommelynck. The opera was premiered 14 February 1932 at the Nationaltheater Mannheim.Gramophone - Volume 74 - Page 12 1996. His operas, Der gewaltige Hahnrei and Beatrice Cenci, both dealt with abuse of women thereby also symbolically dealing with the injustice of tyranny . Difficult edges could suddenly modulate into an explosion of heart - breaking melody " Recording *Goldschmidt: ''Der gewaltige Hahnrei'' - Helen Lawrence (mezzo-soprano), Claudio Otelli (bass), Robert Worle (tenor), Martin Petzold (tenor), Marita Posselt (soprano), Roberta Alexander (soprano), Michael Kraus (tenor) Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted Lothar Zagrosek Lothar Zagrosek (born 13 November 1942 in Otting, Germany) is a German conductor. As a youth, he sang in the Regensburg Cathedral choir, including performances as the First Boy in ''The Magic Flute'' at the 1954 Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berthold Goldschmidt
Berthold Goldschmidt (18 January 190317 October 1996) was a German Jewish composer who spent most of his life in England. The suppression of his work by Nazi Germany, as well as the disdain with which many Modernist critics elsewhere dismissed his "anachronistic" lyricism, stranded the composer in the wilderness for many years before he was given a revival in his final decade. Life Goldschmidt was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1903. His musical career began in earnest during the heyday of the Weimar Republic. While studying philosophy at the University of Hamburg, he was encouraged by the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni to write music. In 1922, Goldschmidt entered the Berlin Hochschule für Musik and joined Franz Schreker's composition class, where his fellow pupils included Ernst Krenek, Alois Hába, Felix Petryek, and Jascha Horenstein. He also studied conducting, played freelance for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 1923, coached the choir for the Berlin premiere of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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