Bernard Haitink
Bernard Johan Herman Haitink ( born March 4, 1929 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch conductor.
Life
Haitink is the son of Willem Haitink and Anna. Willem Haitink was an official who was ultimately responsible for managing one power station. During the German occupation, his father was taken hostage because of a stop for several months in a German concentration camp.
Bernard Haitink studied in his native city at the conservatory. After that he played as a violinist in a number of orchestras. 1954 and 1955 he studied under Ferdinand Leitner to conduct. In 1955 he was second conductor of the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Netherlands Radio Orchestra).
In 1956, he was standing in for Carlo Maria Giulini with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, initially received some invitations from now and then led the orchestra on a tour of England in 1959., After the sudden death of Eduard van Beinum 1959 we transferred Haitink the office of the first conductor. Its international reputation is Haitink 1961 when he was appointed together with Eugen Jochum joint chief conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra. 1964, when the Office Jochum gave up, he became its sole principal conductor and artistic director.
In 1967 he was appointed principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, which he led until 1979. Between 1978 and 1988, Haitink was musical director of the opera at Glyndebourne Festival. His contract with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1988 no longer extended, which Haitink resented the orchestra and then no longer occurred almost five years with this. 1999 he was appointed the orchestra but Honorary Conductor.
From 1977 to 1987 Haitink conducted every Christmas, the Concertgebouw Orchestra in the matinees Kerst (Christmas matinees ). There were only played works by Gustav Mahler and transmit the concerts internationally in the Euro vision.
Between 1987 and 1998, Haitink held the musical director of the Royal Opera House in London, and from 1995 to 2004, he was also principal guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 2002 he took the post of chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden. Due to alleged discrepancies in the election of his successor Haitink resigned his post in 2004 prematurely.
2006 appointed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Haitink principal conductor, because the office of the director of music was no longer busy this year since Daniel Barenboim's retreat. In 2008 he worked with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe exclusively for the Lucerne Festival a Beethoven cycle on the basis of the new Critical Edition, 2010/2011 at the same location with the same sound body has a cycle with the orchestral works of Brahms.
Haitink was married since 1956 with Marjolein Snijder, with whom he has three daughters and two sons. Since 1994 he has been married to his second wife Patricia Bloomfield. Haitink now lives with his wife Patricia in Chestnut Tree at Lake Lucerne LU.
Works
Haitink conducted a wide repertoire during his artistic career. Among his recordings are among other things the complete symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven ( three cycles, with the London Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw and the London Symphony Orchestra ), Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms ( three cycles: Concertgebouw, Boston Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra ), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Anton Bruckner (many multiple times), Gustav Mahler (up to the Eighth multiple) and Dimitri Shostakovich. In addition, Haitink began operations in opera houses einzuspielen operas, complete, among other Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung.