Karl Ristenpart (26 January 1900 – 24 December 1967) was a German
conductor.
Career
Born in
Kiel
Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021).
Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the J ...
, Germany, he studied at the
Stern Conservatory The Stern Conservatory (''Stern'sches Konservatorium'') was a private music school in Berlin with many distinguished tutors and alumni. The school is now part of Berlin University of the Arts.
History
It was founded in 1850 as the ''Berliner Musi ...
in Berlin and in Vienna. He was heavily involved in creating three
orchestra
An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...
s in his lifetime, most notably the
Chamber Orchestra of the Saar. With this group he created one of the earliest
recorded collections of
Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard w ...
's orchestral
music
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. These recordings were made between 1954 and 1967 as
Les Discophiles Français,
Erato
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and Club Français du Disque
releases in France and appeared then under
license
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A license is granted by a party (licensor) to another party (licensee) as an element of an agreeme ...
with various
American
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** American ancestry, pe ...
labels
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(notably
Nonesuch __NOTOC__
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*Nonesuch, Kentucky
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*Nonesuch Palace, mis-spelling of ...
) on both
LP and
cassette
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.
Following an
out-of-print
__NOTOC__
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period, in 2000 the French Accord label, Universal released a six-
CD set comprising the entire set of Ristenpart recordings of Bach orchestral works. The conductor and his colleagues from
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...
also recorded performances of works by
Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his ra ...
and
Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led ...
, among others. The lasting fame he received for these interpretations of
Baroque
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and early
Classical music overshadowed the fact that with his
Saar
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*Saar Boubacar (born 1951), Senegalese professional football player
* Saar Ganor, Israeli archaeologist
*Saar Klein (born 1967), American film editor
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* Ain Saar (born 1968), Est ...
orchestra he actually recorded
works
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* Caddy Works (1896–1982), American college sports coach
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* ''Works'', a Gary Burton album ...
by approximately 230
composer
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Etymology and Defi ...
s, at least half of them belonging to the 20th century, for the
Saar radio. A possible influence in this direction was
Hermann Scherchen
Hermann Scherchen (21 June 1891 – 12 June 1966) was a German conductor.
Life
Scherchen was born in Berlin. Originally a violist, he played among the violas of the Bluthner Orchestra of Berlin while still in his teens. He conducted in Riga ...
, with whom Ristenpart's mother was acquainted before 1914 and to whom she was married between 1919 and 1920. (Hermann Scherchen was a politically active conductor responsible for the premiere performances of what were at the time
controversial
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pieces by composers such as
Berg Berg may refer to:
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*Berg (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
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*Berg (state), county and duchy of the Holy ...
and
Xenakis.)
In 1932 Ristenpart became the conductor of a little
string ensemble
Ensemble may refer to:
Art
* Architectural ensemble
* ''Ensemble'' (album), Kendji Girac 2015 album
* Ensemble (band), a project of Olivier Alary
* Ensemble cast (drama, comedy)
* Ensemble (musical theatre), also known as the chorus
* ''En ...
in Berlin, whose core was composed of women friends of his wife, the
pianist
A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...
and
harpsichordist
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Ruth Christensen. This ensemble came to be known as the Karl Ristenpart Chamber Orchestra and often played for the Berlin radio and the
Deutschlandsender
Deutschlandsender (, ''Radio Germany''), abbreviated DLS or DS, was one of the longest-established radio broadcasting stations in Germany. The name was used between 1926 and 1993 to denote a number of powerful stations designed to achieve all-Ger ...
, mostly for exhausting
live
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Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Live!'' (2007 film), 2007 American film
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*'' ''Live'' (Apocalyptica DVD)
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*Live (band), American alternative rock band
* List of albums ...
night broadcasts
abroad
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. But Ristenpart's career as a promising young conductor in Germany was hobbled by his refusal to join the
Nazi Party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...
.
Following
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, Ristenpart returned to devastated Berlin and put works by
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism ...
, his favorite composer, on the program of his first public concert in the Summer of 1945. With Berlin divided into several foreign
sectors
Sector may refer to:
Places
* Sector, West Virginia, U.S.
Geometry
* Circular sector, the portion of a disc enclosed by two radii and a circular arc
* Hyperbolic sector, a region enclosed by two radii and a hyperbolic arc
* Spherical sector, a p ...
, his unblemished political record allowed him to be named conductor for the
"Radio in the American Sector" of Berlin (RIAS). In 1946 he thus started to record music, from
Monteverdi
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered ...
to
Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor, later of French (from 1934) and American (from 1945) citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential 20th-century clas ...
, with the forces of his former Karl Ristenpart Chamber Orchestra, supplemented by vocal soloists and top musicians from other Berlin orchestras, under the label "RIAS-Choir and Chamber Orchestra". This constituted the second of his important periods of orchestra development and the beginning of his breakthrough to international fame as a conductor, which was mostly built on his ambitious J.S. Bach
concert
A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, choir, or band. Concerts are held in a wide variety a ...
cycle from March 1947 to December 1952. From this period dates the legendary Archiv production featuring
baritone
A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types. The term originates from the Greek (), meaning "heavy sounding". Composers typically write music for this voice in the r ...
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (28 May 1925 – 18 May 2012) was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music, one of the most famous Lieder (art song) performers of the post-war period, best known as a singer of Franz Schubert's Lieder, ...
and Hermann Töttcher playing
oboe
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A ...
and
oboe da caccia
The oboe da caccia (; literally "hunting oboe" in Italian), also sometimes referred to as an oboe da silva, is a double reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family, pitched a fifth below the oboe and used primarily in the Baroque period of Europe ...
in Bach's cantatas
Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56
(), 56, is a church cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach for the 19th Sunday after Trinity. It was first performed in Leipzig on 27 October, 1726. The composition is a solo cantata (german: Solokantate) because, apart from the ...
and
Ich habe genug, BWV 82
Ich may refer to:
* Ich, a German pronoun meaning ''I'', also a Middle English form of ''I''
* The Id, ego and super-ego#Ego, ego, one of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche
* Ich (album), ''Ich'' (albu ...
. But the worsening of the
post-war
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political situation in Germany in the early 1950s, particularly in Berlin where circulating between the various sectors became increasingly difficult, also created financial problems for
radio broadcasting
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. When it became clear at the end of 1952 that the RIAS could not go on
subsidizing
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all its orchestras, Ristenpart accepted an offer to create a new chamber orchestra for the Saar radio, with which he was also to
produce
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LPs for Les Discophiles français (an unusual arrangement linked to the fact that the "autonomous" Saar region was still under French
administration
Administration may refer to:
Management of organizations
* Management, the act of directing people towards accomplishing a goal
** Administrative assistant, Administrative Assistant, traditionally known as a Secretary, or also known as an admini ...
at the time).
Ristenpart began working in the Summer of 1953 as conductor of the
Saar Chamber Orchestra, which, out of an initial 16, included 10 young musicians who had come along with him from Berlin. Among them were the Hendel Quartet, whose leader, Georg Friedrich Hendel, became the orchestra's first
violin
The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...
soloist. The ensuing
collaboration
Collaboration (from Latin ''com-'' "with" + ''laborare'' "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most ...
with top French
instrumental
An instrumental is a recording normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting. Through semantic widening, a broader sense of the word song may refer to instru ...
soloists was especially fruitful, leading to many
tours
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, recordings and partnerships with soloists such as
flautist
The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal (7 January 1922 – 20 May 2000) was a French flautist. He has been personally "credited with returning to the flute the popularity as a solo classical instrument it had not held since the 18th century."
Biography
Ea ...
and the members of his wind ensemble Le Quintette à vent Français. Some 170 LP-records featuring Ristenpart and his Saar Chamber Orchestra have been marketed under license by various record companies all over the world. These include two complete sets of the
Brandenburg concertos
The ''Brandenburg Concertos'' by Johann Sebastian Bach (Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis, BWV 1046–1051), are a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg ...
, the
Orchestral Suites
An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, ce ...
and
The Art of Fugue
''The Art of Fugue'', or ''The Art of the Fugue'' (german: Die Kunst der Fuge, links=no), BWV 1080, is an incomplete musical work of unspecified instrumentation by Johann Sebastian Bach. Written in the last decade of his life, ''The Art of Fug ...
, several albums of Bach vocal cantatas, many
Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesh ...
,
Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread a ...
, many Mozart and Haydn works, but also award-winning records of
Britten
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,
Roussel and
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 ' ...
pieces.
![SB AlterFriedhofStJohann KarlRistenpart](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/SB_AlterFriedhofStJohann_KarlRistenpart.jpg)
In December 1967, Ristenpart suffered a
heart attack
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while on tour in Portugal with the chamber orchestra of the
Gulbenkian Foundation
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and died in a Lisbon
hospital
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on
Christmas Eve
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. The Chamber Orchestra of the Saar was unable to survive long the dimming of its guiding light. After four years under the baton of the reputable cellist
Antonio Janigro, and the death in a car accident of its core musicians, first-violin Georg Friedrich Hendel and his wife Betty Hindrichs-Hendel, first-cellist, it merged with the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1973.
Discography
Original LP recordings
Karl Ristenpart left :
- only one LP of his production with his Chamber Orchestra in Berlin (Archiv 14004 with Bach cantatas 56 and 82 interpreted by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Hermann Töttcher);
- 169 LPs with the Saar Chamber Orchestra, of which 2 were made in Germany (Archiv and
Elektrola) and 167 in France (2 Lumen, 4 Club National du Disque, 1
Harmonia Mundi
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Its Latin name ''ha ...
, 95 Les Discophiles Français, 24 Erato, 42 Club Français du Disque);
- 4 with the
Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart
The Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (German: ''Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR'') was a German radio orchestra based in Stuttgart in Germany.
History
The ensemble was founded in 1945 by American occupation authorities as the orchest ...
(Checkmate, USA).
Reissues as CDs
- Archiv 14004 with cantatas 56 and 82 was reissued by
Polydor International/DG Classics in 1997 and again since.
- several LPs of Club Français du Disque, Musidisc and Erato with Bach, Mozart and Haydn works were reissued as CDs in the 1980s and 1990s under the labels Accord or Erato (see www.amazon.fr);
- ACCORD/UNIVERSAL issued a 6-CD set with Bach orchestral works (including the Brandenburgs, the Suites and The Art of Fugue) in 2000; a 4-CD set entitled "L'art de
Teresa Stich-Randall
Teresa Stich-Randall ( Stich; 24 December 1927 17 July 2007) was a European-based American soprano opera singer. in which the
soprano
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is
accompanied by Ristenpart’s Saar Orchestra, in 2005; a double-CD set with cantatas 56, 82,
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140
('Awake, calls the voice to us'), 140, also known as ''Sleepers Wake'', is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded as one of his most mature and popular sacred cantatas. He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday ...
,
Gott soll allein mein Herze haben, BWV 169
Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata (God alone shall have my heart), 169, a solo cantata for an alto soloist, in Leipzig for the 18th Sunday after Trinity, and first performed it on 20 October 1726.
History and words
Bach wrote ...
,
Coffee Cantata
' (Be still, stop chattering), BWV 211, also known as the ''Coffee Cantata'', is a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it probably between 1732 and 1735. Although classified as a cantata, it is essentially a miniature comic ...
, and 212 in 2006.
- a wide selection of Ristenpart recordings which had been issued as LPs by Nonesuch can be ordered as CDs in the
USA
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from www.rediscovery.us;
- the Association Jean-Pierre Rampal has started reissuing most of the early Saar radio tapes (1954–1985) with Ristenpart’s orchestra and French soloists as CD sets under its label ''Premiers Horizons Disques'' (www.jprampal.com). Works of
Frank Martin,
Willy Burkhard
Willy Burkhard (17 April 1900 – 18 June 1955) was a Swiss composer and academic teacher, influential in both capacities. He taught music theory at the Berne Conservatory and the Zürich Conservatory. His works include an opera, oratorios, cantat ...
,
Peter Mieg
Peter Mieg (5 September 1906 – 7 December 1990) was a Swiss composer, painter and journalist.
Biography
Mieg was born in Lenzburg where he spent almost all his life. He studied art history, archaeology, music history as well as French and ...
,
Jean-Michel Damase
Jean-Michel Damase (27 January 1928 – 21 April 2013) was a French pianist, conductor and composer of classical music.
Career
Damase was born in Bordeaux, the son of harpist Micheline Kahn. He was studying with Marcel Samuel-Rousseau at the a ...
and others.
- "The RIAS Bach Cantatas Project" Audite 2141
is a 9-CD set issued in 2012 taken from the RIAS-Berlin archives (today with Deutschlandradio Kultur) of 29 Bach Cantatas among the 70 recorded by Karl Ristenpart in the period from 1949 to 1952 (planned initially as a complete recording). These studio recordings include J.S. Bach Cantatas
BWV 4
(also spelled ; "Christ lay in death's bonds" or "Christ lay in the snares of death"), 4, is a cantata for Easter by German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, one of his earliest church cantatas. It is agreed to be an early work partly for stylis ...
,
BWV 19
' (There arose a war), 19, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig in 1726 for the Feast of Saint Michael and first performed it on 29 September 1726. It is the second of his three extant cantatas for this feast.
...
,
21,
22,
31,
32,
37,
38,
39,
42,
47,
52,
56,
58,
73,
76,
79,
88,
106,
108 108 may refer to:
* 108 (number)
* AD 108, a year
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* 108 (artist) (born 1978), Italian street artist
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,
127,
140 140 may refer to:
* 140 (number), an integer
* AD 140, a year of the Julian calendar
* 140 BC, a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar
* ''140'' (video game), a 2013 platform game
* Tin King stop
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,
160
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,
164,
176
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,
178,
180
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,
199, and
202). KARL RISTENPART conducts the RIAS Kammerorchester, the
RIAS Kammerchor
The RIAS Kammerchor (RIAS Chamber Choir) is a German choir based in Berlin, Germany. It receives support from the Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre GmbH Berlin ("Berlin Radio Orchestra and Choirs"), a limited-liability company owned by the public bro ...
, the RIAS Knabenchor and the following soloists:
Helmut Krebs Helmut is a German name. Variants include Hellmut, Helmuth, and Hellmuth.
From old German, the first element deriving from either ''heil'' ("healthy") or ''hiltja'' ("battle"), and the second from ''muot'' ("spirit, mind, mood").
Helmut may refer ...
,
Agnes Giebel
Agnes Giebel (10 August 1921 – 24 April 2017) was a German classical soprano. She was born in Heerlen, in the Netherlands, where she lived the first years of her life. She studied at the Folkwangschule in Essen and made her first public appe ...
,
Ingrid Lorenzen ,
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (28 May 1925 – 18 May 2012) was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music, one of the most famous Lieder (art song) performers of the post-war period, best known as a singer of Franz Schubert's Lieder, ...
, Walter Hauck ,
Gunthild Weber , Annelies Westen , Johanna Behrend , Marie-Luise Denicke , Lorri Lail , Lilo Rolwes , Gerhard Niese , Edith Berger-Krebs , Gertrud Birmele , Charlotte Wolf-Matthäus ,
Gerda Lammers.
Sources
*
Charles W. Scheel. ''Karl Ristenpart: Die Werkstätten des Dirigenten: Berlin, Paris, Saarbrücken''. Saarbrücken, SDV, 1999 (www.amazon.de). This biography contains many photos, detailed charts of Ristenpart’s productions and a CD with 4 recordings of the Saar Chamber Orchestra under Ristenpart (Mozart,
''Sinfonia concertante for 4 winds and orchestra'' (
Pierre Pierlot, oboe;
Jacques Lancelot,
clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound.
Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...
;
Gilbert Coursier,
horn
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*Horn (acoustic), a conical or bell shaped aperture used to guide sound
** Horn (instrument), collective name for tube-shaped wind musical instruments
*Horn (anatomy), a pointed, bony projection on the head of various ...
;
Paul Hongne,
bassoon
The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges. It is composed of six pieces, and is usually made of wood. It is known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, versatility, and virtuo ...
), 1954;
Albert Roussel
Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (; 5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period. His ...
, ''Concert pour petit orchestre, op. 34'', 1955;
André Jolivet
André Jolivet (; 8 August 1905 – 20 December 1974) was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet drew on his interest in acoustics and atonality, as well as both ancient and modern musical influe ...
, ''Concerto for flute and string orchestra'' (
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal (7 January 1922 – 20 May 2000) was a French flautist. He has been personally "credited with returning to the flute the popularity as a solo classical instrument it had not held since the 18th century."
Biography
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flute
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), 1960; J.S. Bach, ''Brandenburg Concerto No. 4''
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* Charles W. Scheel and Damien Ehrhardt (ed.). ''Karl Ristenpart und das Saarländisches Kammerorchester, Saarländische Kammerorchester (1953-1967) = Karl Ristenpart et l’Orchestre de chambre de la Sarre (1953-1967)''. Bern and New York, Peter Lang (“Convergences” Series; 291 p., 20 illus.), 1999.
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Richard Freed
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. "Tsar of the Saarland", London, ''
Classic Record Collector
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'', Spring 2006, pp. 10–17.
* Charles W. Scheel (ed.). "Gustav Mahler in the correspondence between Karl Ristenpart and Richard Freed in 1967", special trilingual issue of the ''Cahiers de l’Amefa'', Saarbrücken, 2007. Texts edited and translated in German, French and English by Charles W. Scheel (72 p + CD with a 1959 recording of the Adagietto from Mahlers 5th Symphony, by the Saar Chamber Orchestra under Karl Ristenpart). See under:
https://univ-metz.academia.edu/CharlesScheel/Papers/766156/GUSTAV_MAHLER
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1900 births
1967 deaths
20th-century German conductors (music)
German male conductors (music)
German performers of early music
Musicians from Kiel
Bach conductors
20th-century German male musicians