Gerd Albrecht

Gerd Albrecht was a respected German conductor. He was most widely known for his interpretations lately Intimate and 20th hundred years German repertory. His dad was Hans Albrecht (1902-1961), a well-known musicologist. He was a choral scholar at age 15 and started performing when he was 16. He researched on the Hamburg Musikhochschule (Hamburg Music Academy) from 1955 to 1958. There his performing instructor was Hans Brückner-Rüggeberg. He also researched musicology, philosophy, as well as the research of artwork in Hamburg and Kiel Colleges. In 1957, he earned the prize on the International Little Conductors Competition at Besançon, and in 1958 the Hilversum Conductors Competition. This resulted in his session in 1958 being a choir rehearsal movie director on the Stuttgart Condition Opera in 1958, an average entry-level placement for talented youthful conductors in Germany, where you’ll find so many state-supported opera homes. In 1961, Albrecht became Primary Conductor from the Mainz Town Opera until 1963. This is the start of constant advancement through the rates of opera main conductors in Germany. He was successively Music Movie director from the Buhnen Lübeck (1962-1966) — the youngest German conductor of this home –and the Kassel Staatsoper (Music Movie director, 1966-1972) and in 1972 was appointed Primary Conductor from the Berlin Deutsche Opera, Western Berlin’s opera home and among the leading operatic locations in Germany, being successful Lorin Maazel. While at Kassel, he started presenting Television broadcasts designed to acquaint youthful and aged with traditional and operatic music. He continuing this practice in his later on articles. In 1974, Albrecht received the German Tv Grimm Reward for his accomplishments in children’s broadcasting, as well as for devising and creating “Device Museums” where kids can find out about musical devices. In 1975, furthermore to his placement in Berlin, he became the main Conductor from the Tonhalle-Orchestra of Zurich, a respected Swiss ensemble, being successful Rudolf Kempe. In both Zurich and Berlin, he became called an exacting conductor who call for extra rehearsals when required, as regarding a Mahler’s Third Symphony overall performance in Zurich that needed twelve rehearsals. He remaining the Berlin Deutsche Opera in 1977 as well as the Tonhalle in 1980. During this time period, he guest carried out broadly. He became popular for reviving the music of Intimate German composers Ludwig Spohr, Hans Zemlinsky, and Utmost Reger, as well as for shows of music of Schumann and Dvorák and various other Romantic experts. He also became from the leading German and Austrian composers from the first area of the twentieth hundred years (Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, and Hindemith), the composers Viktor Ullman, Gideon Klein, and Pavel Haas (most of whom where murdered in Nazi loss of life camps), and newer composers such as for example Fortner, Ligeti, Reimann, Penderecki, and Schnittke, a lot of whose functions he premiered either at Berlin or in his afterwards placement as Music Movie director from the Hamburg Condition Opera and Philharmonic Condition Opera of Hamburg (1888-1997). In 1993, the Czech Philharmonic, Prague’s leading orchestra, having reorganized itself being a self-governing orchestra, voted by an overpowering majority to activate Albrecht as their Primary Conductor. He used that post in Sept 1993. Nevertheless, his placement as the initial German conductor of this orchestra was broadly attacked in the papers and in politics circles, leading Albrecht to resign, departing in January 1996. In 1998, he used the positioning of Primary Conductor from the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, and in the beginning of the 2000 period, Chief conductor from the Danish Country wide Radio Symphony Orchestra. He kept these content until 2007 and 2004 respectively. Albrecht earned numerous awards and reputation for his performing, tv productions, and writings, including books on music and selections of fairy stories for children.