Helmut Winschermann

Helmut Winschermann ( born March 22, 1920 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German oboist, university teacher and conductor.

Oboist and high school teachers

Helmut Winschermann studied in Essen and in Paris and in 1939 in the Municipal Orchestra oboist Oberhausen. Soon after the war ended in 1945, he took over the post of first solo oboist in the Symphony Orchestra of Radio Frankfurt, later Hessischer Rundfunk (HR). Until 1951 he practiced from this activity, but was appointed in the year 1948 as a lecturer at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold. In 1951 he founded a master class for oboe and chamber music, and in 1956 took over the newly created Chair of the oboe. A number of highly respected oboist are from his " Oboe factory " as it has later called once Winschermann, emerged, such as Hansjörg Schellenberger, Günther Passin, Fumiaki Miyamoto, Ingo Goritzki and Gernot Schmalfuß, Winschermanns later successor in the professorship in Detmold.

Together with the flutist Kurt Redel and harpsichordist Irmgard Lechner founded Winschermann the chamber music ensemble Collegium Pro Arte, which he in 1954 after conversion to the Collegium Instrumental Detmold also led itself.

Helmut Winschermann undertook many concert tours as a soloist and chamber musician and was a regular contributor to the Cappella Coloniensis, in the Saarland Chamber Orchestra under Karl Ristenpart and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.

German Bach Soloists

In 1960 Winschermann himself also specialist founded on the baroque oboe, for the Frankfurt Bach concertos a Musiziergemeinschaft which should address in particular the music of the Baroque era - the German Bach Soloists. In the first years Winschermann led from the orchestra by the oboe, but later reversed his instrument with the baton. Since then, the ensemble makes music all over the world. 1995, it was enthusiastically received at its 14th tour of Japan for his performances of all six Brandenburg concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach.

On the occasion of the anniversary "50 Years of German Bach Soloists " concerted in its 90 -year-old Winschermann with his chamber orchestra 17 October 2010 in Bonn Beethoven-Haus. The program included the " Goldberg Variations" by JS Bach in the instrumentation of Helmut Winschermann.

Approximately 100 records and CDs testify to the work of Helmut Winschermanns and his Bach Soloists.

Awards

  • Twice Helmut Winschermann was awarded the Edison Prize.
  • 1995 Winschermann honorary member of the Royal Academy of London.
  • 2013 Georg Philipp Telemann Prize of the City of Magdeburg

Quote

In an interview on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1990 Winschermann said: It has apostrophized me in the 50s as a " singer on the oboe ." At that time I was a very brave wind and have a Espressivo tried on the oboe, which it had until then not actually yet exist. - With the requirements in the modern orchestra now the ideal sound however has changed again. You play today with a rounder, darker and heavier oboe tone.

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