Alois Kottmann

Alois Kottmann (* 1929 in Großauheim, Hesse ) is a German violinist, music educator, patron and high school teachers.

Life and work

Alois Kottmann grew up in the home of his family with two siblings, the son of a silversmith. In particular, his music-loving mother did everything to let her three children develop musically. His music teacher at the High State School (Gymnasium) in Hanau encouraged him to play the violin. After his graduation Kottmann took first in private violin lessons at home Hölscher, where he friendship with Gert Hölscher (1930 - 2010) was particularly encouraged musically. In this way he learned early the pianist Günter Ludwig know. At the Musikhochschule Frankfurt Kottmann eventually studied with Marie -Louise Graef - monk assistant Alma Moodie, and was trained by Carl Flesch. With her he had taken years before graduation classes.

In high school competition in Hamburg Kottmann was awarded violin. After his concert examination, he first worked as a violin teacher at the Odenwald School. From 1958 Kottmann worked as a university teacher at the prestigious Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. Later, he was also active as a lecturer at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt, at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. From 1977 to 1979 he was acting director of Dr. Hoch's Conservatory.

Kottmann identification with substantial music and its playback is largely due to the forces acting during his education at the University of personalities Walther Davisson, Kurt Hessenberg, Gustav Lenzewski, August Leopolder and Helmut Walcha, as well as his encounters with the family von Bethmann, Anton Biersack, Reinhold Finkbeiner, Erich Flinsch, Karl Friday, Karl Heinz Ludwig radio, Ludwig Hoelscher, Richard Rudolf Klein, Dieter Lindemann, Otmar Macha, Thomas Magyar, Yehudi Menuhin, Ginette Neveu, Elly Ney, Váša Příhoda, Max Rostal, Gerhard Taschner, Rüdiger Volhard, Bruno Vondenhoff and Friedrich Zipp due.

"Music is not a means of self-expression, but a medium of communication between people. "

Artistic Partnerships went Kottmann one with Karl Friday, Agnes Giebel, Peter -Lukas Graf, Ingo Goritzki, Rainer Hoffmann, Alois Ickstadt, Mary Hunter Young, Marietta Krutisch, Günter Ludwig, Albert Mangelsdorff, Heinz and Gisela Sott Teuchert.

Alois Kottmann became involved, among other things, for the multi- unquestioned continuity of the Hoch Conservatory, for regional promotion of musical culture in the Rhine -Main area, the promotion of international young talents who works Frankfurt composers and grounded in the Main metropolis fiddle tradition after Carl Flesch, the highest level of humanity as well as a lively international artistic and social exchange. This comprehensive commitment continues to this day almost unabated.

Lectureships

  • University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main
  • Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Initiatives and commitments

Radio

With the Hessischer Rundfunk and Norddeutscher Rundfunk a long-standing collaboration was through joint productions archive a variety of violin solo works. Recordings were beyond even the RIAS Berlin, for radio diffusion Paris, Swiss Radio DRS (Studio Basel) and the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) as well as acquisitions in the Czechoslovak Radio ( Československý rozhlas ). Together with the Figuralchor the Hessischer Rundfunk under the direction of Alois Ickstadt was created for the ARD a variety of radio programs, where the Collegium Instrumental Alois Kottmann and Alois Kottmann participated as soloist artistic.

TV

  • ZDF documentary Passion and Passion (1985 ), Adalbert Kraus, Ernst Gerold Schramm, Alois Kottmann Collegium Instrumental Soloist: Alois Kottmann (from left), Director: Meinolf Fritzen

Tour overseas

Alois Kottmann guested along with he founded the Collegium Instrumental Alois Kottmann among others in the United Kingdom, the United States and in Mexico.

Honors

  • Honorary member of the drug help 80 by the former President of the German Bundestag, Annemarie Renger
  • Honorary Professor of the artistic faculty of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main
  • August Gaul Medal of the City of Hanau (1999)
  • Honorary Medal of the City of Frankfurt am Main ( 2000)
  • Merit of the State of Hesse with Ribbon (2002)
  • Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2006)
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