Alfred Sous (24 November 1925 – 6 April 2011) was a German classical

oboist An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including the oboe d'amore, cor anglais or English horn, bass oboe and piccolo oboe or oboe musette. The following is a list of notable past and pres ...

, University

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and writer.

Life

Born in

Rheydt Rheydt () is a borough of the Germany, German city Mönchengladbach, located in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia. Until 1918 and then again from 1933 (due to a split from Mönchengladbach arranged by Joseph Goebbels, who was born there) through ...

, at the age of 14 Sous began his

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at the . In 1942 he was drafted. After his training as a soldier he was sent to the Eastern Front and in 1943 to Soviet war captivity. After seven years as a prisoner of war, where he was "intendant" of a camp theatre group, he finished his music studies with Winschermann. His first engagement was in

Darmstadt Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...

. Afterwards, in 1952, he went to Frankfurt as a solo oboist for the

hr-Sinfonieorchester The Frankfurt Radio Symphony (german: hr-Sinfonieorchester) is the radio orchestra of Hessischer Rundfunk, the public broadcasting network of the German state of Hesse. From 1929 to 1950 it was named ''Frankfurter Rundfunk-Symphonie-Orchester''. F ...

of the

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. He was also a member of the ''

Cappella Coloniensis Cappella Coloniensis is a German orchestra founded by the West German Radio in Cologne in 1954 for the purpose of introducing historically informed performance of Baroque music to the listening public. In 1998 the orchestra received the Georg Phil ...

'' and the Bayreuth

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Orchestra. Sous was oboe professor at the

Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts The Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (german: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, italic=no, link=no, HfMDK) is a state Hochschule for music, theatre and dance in Frankfurt and is the only one of its k ...

. He has published works on the history of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and the

. He became known with his

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''Tosca'' and the satire ''Broderich komponiert schwarze Löcher''(Broderich composes black holes). After his retirement, Sous lived in southern Spain for 12 years before returning to Germany and spending the last years of his life in Weilheim and Munich where he died at age 85.

Work

* ''Neue Oboenschule. Unter Einbeziehung der Elementarschule für Oboe von Gustav Hinke''.

Edition Peters Edition Peters is a classical music publisher founded in Leipzig, Germany in 1800. History The company came into being on 1 December 1800 when the Viennese composer Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812) and the local organist Ambrosius Kühnel ( ...

, * ''Das Bayreuther Festspielorchester: Geschichte und Gegenwart''. Ansporn-Verlag, 1988, * ''Tosca''.''Tosca Kriminalroman''
on Worldcat Buch&Media Verlag, 2006

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sous, Alfred German classical oboists Academic staff of the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts German male writers 1925 births 2011 deaths People from Mönchengladbach 20th-century classical musicians