Heinz Bongartz
Heinz Bongartz ( born July 31, 1894 in Krefeld, † May 5, 1978 in Dresden ) was a German conductor and composer.
Life and work
Bongartz studied 1908-1914 at the Music Conservatory in his home town of Krefeld and Elly Ney, Otto Neitzel and Fritz Steinbach. 1919 began his professional career as a choral conductor; 1923 already he was director of opera theater city Mönchengladbach. 1924-1926 was Bongartz Kapellmeister at the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, then to 1930 head of the country's Chapel Meiningen, then to 1933 Musical Oberleiter in Gotha. 1933 to 1937 he held the office of 1.Staatskapellmeisters in Kassel and was from 1939 to 1944 music director in Saarbrücken. In 1941, he joined the NSDAP.
After that, Bongartz dedicated after years of working as an opera conductor reinforces the concert and was chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic, of which he was chief conductor from 1947 to 1963. In the beginning of this year Bongartz was a professor of conducting at the Leipzig Academy of Music (1946 and 1947). In 1969 he became a corresponding member of the German Academy of Arts in Berlin (East).
As a conductor, he sat down principally for works by contemporary composers (such as Paul Hindemith ) and made himself especially with his interpretations of works by Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner a name. He left recordings of works by Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Reger, Hindemith and of works by contemporary composers of the GDR.
Bongartz was from 1950 to 1952 a member of the Saxon state parliament (SED ).
Compositions and recordings
- Two suites for orchestra (1940 and 1949)
- Transformations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart ( 1942)
- Orchestral Songs " Japanese Spring "; for soprano and orchestra (1943 )
- Burlesque and Scherzo ( 1957)
- Patria o muerte (1961 )
- Symphony (1964 )
- Rembrandt Suite ( 1967)
Discount
The compositional reduction by Heinz Bongartz is located in the Music Department of the SLUB Dresden: Signature: Mus.12237 ...