Georg Ludwig Jochum
Georg Ludwig Jochum ( born December 10, 1909 in Babenhausen, † November 1, 1970 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, sometimes Georg -Ludwig Jochum written ) was a German conductor and brother of Otto and Eugen more familiar with which he for his attachment music of Anton Bruckner informed.
Life
The son of a Catholic teacher, organist, choirmaster and conductor of orchestral and theater club studied at Augsburg, Leopold Mozart Conservatory in Munich and at the State Academy of Music with Joseph Pembaur, Siegmund von Haus Egger and Joseph Haas. As early as 1932, at age 23, he was appointed music director of the city of Münster where he performed at the Municipal - Lortzingstraße Theatre and directed the Symphony Orchestra Münster. In 1934 he became Kapellmeister to Frankfurt am Main, where he conducted the opera and the museum concerts. In 1937, he became municipal music director of Plauen and Music Director of the City Theater Plauen. On 1 May 1937 he was at his request, the NSDAP was added ( Membership Number: 5.79468 million ), but deleted again in January 1941 for failure to post payments.
From 1940 to 1945 he was music director in Linz and opera conductor at the Stadttheater. He headed the Municipal Symphony Orchestra, which he reshaped from 1943 in Hitler's order to " Empire Bruckner Orchestra " of the Greater German Radio and with whom he made his debut in April 1944 with a concert to Hitler's birthday. With this orchestra he created then the Bruckner festivals in St. Florian.
After the war, in the short term " black lists " of the occupying powers, he was in 1946 for lifetime General Music Director of the Duisburg Symphony Orchestra, with whom he performed and he formed a brilliant and high-profile ensemble in the Mercatorhalle up to his conversion to retire in 1968. At the Theater Duisburg, he performed with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and was until 1958 head of Duisburg Conservatory.
1948-50 he conducted next to the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, early 1950s he also conducted the RIAS - Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; He has performed throughout Europe, Japan and South America.