Heinz Wallberg

Heinz Wallberg ( born March 16, 1923 in Herringen (today Hamm ), † 29 September 2004 in Essen) was a German conductor.

Biography

Wallenberg studied music in Dortmund and Cologne, was then with orchestras in Cologne and Darmstadt acquire practice, and this is unusual, one after the other on two instruments: As a violinist and as a solo trumpeter. His career as a conductor began with traditional positions at smaller German theaters in Münster, Trier and Hagen.

After the Second World War, he played a leading role in the cultural reconstruction. He was from 1953 to 1961 General Music Director in Bremen and from 1961 to 1974 in Wiesbaden. He ran in parallel from 1964 to 1975 and the Lower Austrian Musicians Orchestra in Vienna. From 1975 to 1991 he was chief conductor of the Essen Philharmonic from 1975 to 1982 and at the same time of the Munich Radio Orchestra.

Throughout his career, Wallenberg has stood on the podium of major opera houses around the world, just as he passed as a concert conductor the major orchestras; these include the major performing the former Soviet Union in Moscow and Leningrad. Alone at the Vienna State Opera, he has more than 450 ideas and the Vienna Musikverein conducted almost 500 concerts. In the major European festival cities Heinz Wallberg was as always a welcome guest conductor and for nearly four decades with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo.

Wallenberg's interpretation of art is documented on more than 100 recordings, including 16 complete opera recordings, and in over 100 television productions. In 1959 he conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Singing Club and soloists of the Vienna State Opera in a gala concert before Pope John XXIII. St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, which was transferred from 25 TV stations around the world.

The repertoire of the conductors included not only the works of the great tradition; in the second half of the 20th century, he led premieres of operas by Werner Egk, Frank Martin and Rudolf Wagner- Régeny. From the older repertoire, he sat down again and again for rarely performed and unduly forgotten works like a La Bohème by Ruggiero Leoncavallo and Jaromir Weinberger Schwanda the Bagpiper, whose total recording was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1982.

Wallenberg was during four decades as one of the most successful conductors of his generation. Unforgettable stay his interpretations of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner.

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