Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau ( born May 28, 1925 in Berlin, † 18 May, 2012 Berg) was a German singer (baritone ), conductor, painter, music writer and reciter.

Fischer- Dieskau is considered one of the most important song and opera singers of the 20th century. With more than 400 records he is the singer, whose interpretations of the most recorded should exist on recordings ever.

Life

In his family music had a great tradition, already in 1742, he focused his ancestor, the Elector of Saxony Chamber Mr. Carl Heinrich von Dieskau, who was Peasant Cantata BWV 212 His grandfather, the pastor and Hymnologe Albert Fischer. The parents, the father of classical scholar, his mother a teacher, encouraged the talent of the son, by an 16 - Years' vocal studies with Georg A. Walter, then from 1942 with Hermann Weissenborn at the Berlin Academy of Music, enabled him. His brother was the church musician Klaus Fischer-Dieskau.

Fischer- Dieskau was drafted into the army and got into Italy in American captivity, during which he further pursued his vocal studies autodidact. His first concerts he gave in the American prison camp in Italy. After the return from captivity, he made his debut in 1947 in the German Requiem by Brahms at a performance in Badenweiler, after the baritone soloist could not occur because of a disease.

Fischer- Dieskau's real career began in January 1948, when he - still a student at Hermann Weissenborn - started singing Schubert's Winterreise for the RIAS. In the same year he was engaged at the Städtische Oper Berlin, where he sang in Tannhäuser in Don Carlos and the tungsten including the Marquis Posa. In 1949 the first recording session took place: Four Serious Songs Brahms. In the same year he appeared on the opera stages in Munich and Vienna. More Stations: 1951 Songs of a Wayfarer by Gustav Mahler at the Salzburg Festival under the baton of Wilhelm Furtwängler. That same year, Fischer-Dieskau had its festival debut in Edinburgh with the Brahms songs. In 1952, he was for the first time in the U.S. on tour, 1954, he had at the Bayreuth Festival debut as Wolfram in Tannhäuser. On May 30, 1962 Fischer- Dieskau participated in the dedication of the new Coventry Cathedral in the world premiere of the War Requiem by Benjamin Britten. He sang on the side of the British tenor Peter Pears. Fischer- Dieskau is also regarded as a promoter of 20th-century music, so by Hans Werner Henze and Aribert Reimann. Fischer- Dieskau's longtime companion and most important song on the piano was especially Gerald Moore, with whom he recorded several times Schubert's song cycle Winterreise. Even with Wolfgang Sawallisch at the piano, he gave many concerts and took with him several records on.

Its main stations were then appearances at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Royal Opera House in London. His repertoire consisted of about three thousand songs of a hundred different composers.

1949 Fischer-Dieskau married the cellist Irmgard first marriage Poppen. She died in 1963 at the third son's birth. This was followed (1965-1967) marriage to actress Ruth Leuwerik, then a third marriage (1968-1975) with Christina Pugel School, the daughter of an American singing teachers. Since 1977, Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau was married in fourth marriage with singer Julia Várady.

Since 1983, Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau was a professor at the University of Arts in Berlin, and since 1991 a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg. On December 31, 1992, he finished in Munich with a New Year's Eve, as the last piece of the final fugue Tutto nel mondo è burla from Verdi's Falstaff rang, his active career as a singer.

After his death, his colleague René Kollo Fischer-Dieskau praised as " vocally simply predestined for the song" and by nature as "very lovely, very helpful, very friendly ." Brigitte Fassbaender said the singer was "a highly sensitive man of great mental clarity " was. " For all those who have worked with him, he was always a model to a high degree. He was just a natural, great authority. "

Honors

Works

Headlines:

  • In the footsteps of Schubert songs. If, nature, effect. Brockhaus, Wiesbaden 1971, ISBN 3-7653-0244-9.
  • Wagner and Nietzsche: the mystagogue and his apostate. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-421-01692-8 ( ISBN formally wrong ).
  • Robert Schumann: words and music. The vocal work. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-421-06068-1.
  • Aftertaste. Views and memories. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-421-06368-0.
  • If music be the food of love. Artist fates in the 19th century. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-421-06571-3.
  • Remote the action of the Faun. Claude Debussy and his world. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-421-06651-5.
  • Schubert and his songs. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-421-05051-1 ( paperback: Franz Schubert and his songs island, Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-458-34219-2. ).
  • Carl Friedrich Zelter and Berlin's musical life of his time. A Biography. Nicolai, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87584-652-4.
  • The world of singing. Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01638-2.
  • Time of life. In tracking search. German publishing house, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-421-05368-5.
  • Music in the conversation. Forays into classical music with Eleonore Büning. Propylaea, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-549-07178-7.
  • Goethe as a director. Theatre passions in classical Weimar. dtv, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-423-24581-6.
  • Johannes Brahms. Life and Songs. List, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-548-60828-0.
  • Jupiter and myself. Encounters with Furtwängler. Berlin Univ. Press, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940432-66-7.
  • The German piano song. Berlin University Press, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86280-021-6.

As the editor:

  • German texts of songs. dtv, Munich 1968, ISBN 978-3-423-30095-7.
  • The night 's ear. Poems by Edward Moerike. Settings by Hugo Wolf. A reading book. Hanser, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-446-19524-6.
  • On Wings of Song. The hundred most beautiful music poems. Building, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-351-03246-3.

Clips

  • Fischer- Dieskau sings Gustav Mahler " Kindertotenlieder ".

Now I see well why such dark flames

Often I think, they 've only gone

In this weather, in this windy storm

  • Youtube playlist Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau
May 18 Recitation Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Falstaff (opera) Grammy Award Brahmspreis Praemium Imperiale Goethe-Gesellschaft Wolfgang Gratzer Rudolf Serkin Elliott Carter Gidon Kremer Peter Schreier Heinz Holliger H. C. Robbins Landon Harrison Birtwistle Maurizio Pollini Helmut Lachenmann Mauricio Kagel Reinhold Brinkmann Alfred Brendel Henri Dutilleux Daniel Barenboim Brian Ferneyhough Klaus Huber Michael Gielen Dieter Zechlin Olivier Alain Dmitry Bashkirov Amadeus Webersinke Eliso Virsaladze Rudolf Kehrer Kurt Masur Rudolf Fischer (musician) Altenberg Trio Steven Isserlis Juliane Banse Edgar Krapp Albert Mangelsdorff Carl Dahlhaus Chick Corea Georg Solti Harry Kupfer Brian Eno Tabea Zimmermann Wolfgang Niedecken Hans Zender Peter Herbolzheimer Klaus Doldinger Walter Levin Keith Emerson Anne Sofie von Otter John McLaughlin (musician) Integrated Authority File
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