Herbert Blomstedt
Herbert Blomstedt ( pronunciation: [ ˌ hæɹ ː ː bəʈ blʊm stɛt ], born July 11, 1927 in Springfield, USA ) is a Swedish- American conductor. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
Biography
Herbert Blomstedt was born to Swedish parents in the United States. His father was a Seventh-day Adventist pastor. Blomstedt received his first musical training at the Royal Conservatory in Stockholm and Uppsala University. He studied conducting at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, contemporary music in Darmstadt and renaissance and baroque music at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, he also worked with Igor Markevitch in Salzburg and Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood.
1954 made his debut as a conductor Herbert Blomstedt with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Stockholm and then worked as chief conductor of major Scandinavian orchestras, including in Norrköping. By 1963, he led the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. From 1975 to 1985 he was chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden from 1985 to 1995 and Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. From 1996 to 1998 he was chief conductor of the NDR Symphony Orchestra, with whom he also works regularly as a guest conductor. 1998-2005 he was the successor of Kurt Masur, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
Herbert Blomstedt works with many major orchestras as guest conductor, including the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic and not least the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
The Gewandhaus Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra appointed him honorary conductor. In 2003 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.
Herbert Blomstedt, whose wife Traute Blomstedt died in February 2003, has four daughters and lives in Lucerne since 1984. He is a professed Seventh-day Adventist.
CD recordings
Blomstedt has recorded a wealth of works, alone with the Staatskapelle Dresden exist 130 different shots. Completely took Blomstedt including the symphonies of Beethoven, Schubert, Sibelius, and a number of orchestral works by Paul Hindemith on, as well as the complete symphonies of Carl Nielsen with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, recognized as the benchmark recording. With the Gewandhaus Orchestra are from the past few years, inter alia, recordings of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner, but also the high degree of Sweden Sven- David Sandström. Blomstedt took on most recordings for Decca.