Hans Rosbaud

Hans Rosbaud ( born July 22, 1895 in Graz, Austria, † December 29, 1962 in Lugano, Switzerland ) was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist.

Life

He came from a family of musicians. His mother, an estimated pianist, already gave him very early piano lessons. Later he studied composition with Bernhard Sekles and piano with Alfred Hoehn Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. 1920 he was appointed as Director of the Municipal School of Music in Mainz, until he was principal conductor of the newly founded Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 1929. In 1937 he was appointed to Münster, where he worked as musical director for four years. Nevertheless, he managed in 1938 in Frankfurt concerts and took in February Leopold of village taverns anthem God bless our leaders with the choir and orchestra of the Frankfurt Radio on. Following a three-year term at the head of the Strasbourg Philharmonic after the war, the Munich Philharmonic, the newly formed Symphony Orchestra Baden -Baden and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich were more stations of the conductors. After 1950, Hans Rosbaud was involved as a director of the Symphony Orchestra of the Southwest Radio instrumental in the rebirth of Donaueschingen Music Days. He made in 1954 at a concert in 1957 and earned the first staged performance of Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron. In 1955 he brought Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau sans maitre in Baden -Baden with soloists of the SWF Symphony Orchestra premiered.

Rosbaud was the first major " radio - conductor". He knew as early as 1929 in Frankfurt, in politically increasingly difficult times, to use all opportunities of the new medium. In addition to the reported high artistic qualities, he was also involved educational. So he told the radio listeners about the instruments and tried again and again, contemporary music " broadcast quality " recycle. Premieres of works by Hindemith, Krenek, Penderecki, Stravinsky and Schoenberg were for him in his time as a day's work as the performance of works of the past. Notable was Rosbaud collaboration with Arnold Schoenberg, but also his ability to adapt to the new circumstances in the period of National Socialism.

Works

  • Piano Trio ( Novelletten )
  • Concert Piece for Tuba and Orchestra ( 1936)
  • Concert Piece for Violin and Orchestra ( 1918)
  • Overture to Grillparzer's The Sea and the waves of love (1916 )
  • Six Songs for Voice and Piano Dawning is the summer evening
  • In my sleeping Zuleima
  • Litt once a troop ( A Short History )
  • Invitation to Sleep
  • Hail, thou faithful servant
Westdeutscher Rundfunk Baden-Baden Donaueschingen Festival Musical instrument Paul Hindemith Ernst Krenek Theaterlexikon der Schweiz Hans Winderstein Hermann Zumpe Fritz Rieger Rudolf Kempe James Levine Christian Thielemann Lorin Maazel Integrated Authority File
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