Horst Stein

Horst Walter Stone ( born 2 May 1928 in Elberfeld, † 27 July, 2008 Vandœuvres, Switzerland ) was a German concert and opera conductor.

Life

Horst Walter Stein (today a part of Wuppertal ) was born on 2 May 1928 in Elberfeld, the son of a mechanic. He attended high school in arts in Frankfurt (piano, oboe, percussion, vocals), and then studied at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. His teacher majoring in conducting was Günter Wand. He studied composition with Philipp Jarnach. His musical career began in 1947 as a coach at the Municipal Theater Wuppertal, where he remained until 1951. About Hamburg he came in 1955 to the following severe war damage newly opened Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. The internationally renowned conductor Erich Kleiber had hired the then 27 -year-olds. He began as a state Kapellmeister, but was appointed music director coordinated soon. In this role, Horst Stein worked until 1961. Besides his work on the opera he taught from 1959 to 1961 at the East Berlin Academy of Music. From 1961 to 1963 he held under the director Rolf Liebermann at the Hamburg State Opera, the position of deputy director of music. Subsequently he went from 1963 to 1970 as general music director and opera director at the National Theatre Mannheim. In parallel, he was from 1969 to 1972 principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera, where he conducted more than 500 performances, most recently on April 1, 1972, the new production of Daphne with Mimi Coertse. From 1972 to 1977 he was back in Hamburg, this time as a musical director. In the 1970s, he also often a guest at the Deutsche Oper Berlin va in Wagner performances. At the Hamburg Academy of Music he became a professor and trained young conductors from.

Early on, he showed great interest in the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth. Since 1952, he assisted in Keilberth, Hans Knappertsbusch, Clemens Krauss and Herbert von Karajan. From 1969 on, he conducted himself then, including the Ring of the Nibelungen, Parsifal, Meistersinger, Tannhäuser and Tristan und Isolde. Alone 1969-1986 he conducted 138 performances on the Green Hill. The Salzburg Festival as a highlight in the international music scene attracted Horst Stein. In the years 1985-89, he conducted a series of concerts and opera performances, including works by Strauss, Mozart and Beethoven.

From 1980 to 1985 he was Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva. This was followed by Horst Stein chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. He held honorary conductor in 1996 until the appointment of this position. In addition to his Bamberger position he held until 1994, the functions of the Artistic Director of the Basel Symphony Orchestra and Music Society, in Basel.

Horst Stein lived most recently in Vandœuvres in the Swiss canton of Geneva, where he died on 27 July 2008.

Importance

Horst Stein was considered extraordinarily experienced conductor who mastered a large repertoire, had outstanding technical skills and did a lot for young artists. He devoted himself equally to the operatic and concert literature. He had a penchant for the romantic and late romantic. Composers such as Carl Maria von Weber, Brahms, Wagner, Bruckner, Strauss and Reger who have always been his favorite. He was guest conductor of major orchestras, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo, which made ​​him an honorary conductor.

The Vienna Symphony Orchestra, where he performed regularly awarded him the 1996 Bruckner ring. Many honorary memberships underline the importance of Horst Stein. He also served as honorary member of the National Theatre Mannheim, the Friends of the Vienna State Opera and the Richard Wagner Association Linz. For his services Horst Stein has won several awards. In 1996 he was awarded by the Federal President of the Republic of Austria, the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art. 2003, the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, he was awarded.

Horst Stein has produced a variety of records. The focus here is again the concert and operatic literature of the 19th and early 20th century. Also, radio recordings and television broadcasts are available.

Discography

(Selection, alphabetically by composer )

  • Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos ( Gulda / Wiener Philharmoniker / 1970 /71)
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ( Bamberger Symphoniker )
  • Bizet: Carmen ( complete recording, German / Ludwig, shock, Prey, Muszely, Schirrmacher, Mercker, peoples and Others / Berliner Symphoniker / 1961)
  • Brahms: The Symphonies ( Bamberger Symphoniker / 1997)
  • Cherubini: Medea ( complete recording / Rysanek, Popp, Gruberova, Lilowa, Prevedi, Bunger, Ghiuselev and Others / Vienna State Opera / Live recording of 31 January 1972)
  • Cilenšek: Symphony No. 5 ( Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / 1960 )
  • A: The Visit of the Old Lady ( total recording / Ludwig, Waechter, Beirer, Loose, Hotter, Terkal, Zednik, Jungwirth / Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / premiere recording of 23 May 1971)
  • Gerster: Festival Overture ( Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra / 1959 )
  • Glazunov: Violin Concerto ( Joseph Sivo / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / 1971)
  • Kelterborn: Symphony No. 4 ( Bamberger Symphoniker / 1987)
  • Khachaturian: Masquerade Gajaneh, suites ( Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / 1959)
  • Kienzl: The Evangelimann (cross section / Kónya, Ericsdotter, Boese, Stewart / Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / 1965)
  • Leoncavallo: Pagliacci ( total intake, German / Kónya, Muszely, Schmidt, Metternich, Cordes et al / Chorus of the Staatsoper Berlin / Berlin Staatskapelle / 1959 )
  • Bartholdy: Piano Concerto in G minor, Op 25 and Overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op 27 (Wiener Symphoniker / 1997)
  • Mozart: The Magic Flute ( total recording / Director: Ustinov / Gedda, Mathis Sotin, Deutekom and Others / State Orchestra Hamburg / Chorus of the Hamburg State Opera / 1972)
  • Puccini: Tosca ( complete recording, German / Woytowicz, Kónya, Borg, body, Enders et al / Staatskapelle Berlin / 1960)
  • Reger: 9 CDs with numerous major orchestras and choral orchestral works ( Brown, Oppitz, Forchert, Bamberger Symphoniker / 1988-95 )
  • Schmidt: The Book with Seven Seals ( Fontana, rear Meier, Azesberger, Buchner, Holl, Vienna Symphony Orchestra / 1996)
  • Schubert: Symphony No. 9 and Overture to Rosamunde ( Vienna Symphony and NHK SO / 1984 )
  • Schumann: Symphony No. 3 (Wiener Symphoniker / 1997)
  • Sibelius: 8 CDs ( Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / 1971-80 )
  • Strauss: Capriccio ( total recording / Tomowa - Sintow, Schmidt, Büchner, ground lift, Beautiful, Jungwirth et al / Wiener Philharmoniker / live recording of the premiere at the Salzburg Festival on August 7, 1985)
  • Strauss: Festive Prelude Op 61 ( Bamberger Symphoniker / 1987)
  • Verdi: Don Carlo ( total recording / Corelli, Janowitz, Verrett, Waechter, Gjaurow, Talvela, Gruberová ) and Others / Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Live recording of 25 October 1970)
  • Verdi: Nabucco (extracts, German / Stewart, Synek, Lear, Kónya, Talvela and Others / Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin / 1965 )
  • Verdi: Rigoletto (extracts, German / Fischer- Dieskau, Vivarelli, Kozub et al / Berliner Philharmoniker / 1962)
  • Vibert: Symphonie funebre and Lux et Pax ( Orchestre de la Suisse Romande )
  • Wagner: Siegfried Idyll ( Bamberger Symphoniker / 1986)
  • Wagner: Overture and Bacchanal from Tannhäuser ( Bamberger Symphoniker / 1987)
  • Wagner: Overture to Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes ( Bamberger Symphoniker / 1986)
  • Wagner: The Flying Dutchman ( total recording / Roar, Slatinaru, Ridder Busch, Schunk, Budai, Suttheimer / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / 1980 )
  • Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg ( total recording / Director: Wolfgang Wagner / Jerusalem, Weikl, Prey, Häggander, Clark, Schiml, Schenk, Molnar et al / Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival / 1984 )
  • Wagner: Parsifal ( total recording / Director: Wolfgang Wagner / Jerusalem, Randová, Weikl, Sotin, Roar, Salminen et al / Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival / 1984 )
  • Wagner: Tristan und Isolde ( total recording / Bjoner, Beirer Kreppel, Hesse, Wiener et al / Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Live recording c.1970 )
  • Wagner: Tristan und Isolde ( total recording / Nilsson, Vickers, Crass, Hoffman, middleman and Others / Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires / Live recording from Sept. 1971)
  • Wagner: Tristan und Isolde ( total recording / Nilsson, Vickers, Sotin, Hesse, Noecker, Dermota and Others / Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / live recording of December 5, 1976)
  • Weber: Symphony No. 1 in C major, Invitation to the Dance ( arr. Berlioz ), overtures to Euryanthe, Berherrscher of spirits, Abu Hassan (Wiener Philharmoniker / 1977)
  • Weber: Missa Solemnis No. 1 in E flat major ( Freischütz Fair) ( Laki, Schiml, Protschka, Rootering / Bamberger Symphoniker )
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