Joachim Carlos Martini
Joachim Carlos Martini ( born May 4, 1931 in Valdivia, Chile ) is a German musicologist and conductor. He founded in the 1960's, to 2013 he directed the choir " boy choir " and together with his wife, violinist Judith Freise, and fellow musicians Baroque Orchestra Frankfurt. Under his leadership emerged 20 recordings on LP and CD.
Life and work
Joachim Martini was born to German parents in Chile. After the return of the family in 1938, he spent the school years in Berlin, West Prussia, and Schleswig -Holstein. Inspired by his parents' home, he discovered his passion for early music.
He studied German and History in Göttingen and Frankfurt am Main and was interested in in addition to philosophy, art history and musicology. At Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno Martini heard lectures on music aesthetics and sociology of music, with Kurt Thomas, he studied choral conducting and oratorios practice at Hellmuth Franz orchestral conducting and opera practice. After the First and Second State Examination he joined the teaching at secondary schools.
The love of music and the influence of Adorno, with whom he was acquainted during their studies and beyond, Martini left next to the teaching profession continue to work on his musical education. He put the cantor exam from the Frankfurt School of Church Music and completed his musical education by conducting courses at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Dean Dixon and Hermann Scherchen.
From 1958 on he headed the student choir of the Johann -Wolfgang- Goethe -University, Frankfurt am Main and established its reputation through performances of sacred works, notably the romance. In 1961 he founded together with Fritz Eitel, then state youth pastor of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau, the " Hessian student choir ." She went as well as the student choir in 1968 in the boys choir whose leadership, Martini to 2013 devoted full-time. In 1986, Martini together with musician friends Baroque Orchestra Frankfurt and presented so that the boys choir an ensemble their programs adequate to the side.
Together with Judith Freise, the concertmaster of the Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, Joachim Carlos Martini directed the Frankfurt Archive » Tracked musical life in the Nazi era ," a. In this context, he explores biographies and works of Jewish musicians during the time of Nazi terror. This work was reflected in a number of publications and three exhibitions, including " Music as a form of spiritual resistance. Jewish musicians, from 1933 to 1945 - the example of Frankfurt ". The exhibitions were, inter alia,, Chicago shown in the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church, in the Wiesbaden State Parliament, in the universities of Frankfurt, Leipzig and Erfurt, in Strasbourg. In this context, prepared on Martini lost compositions by Jewish composers, which he performed with the boys choir.
One focus of the musical work Martinis is on his works of George Frideric Handel. So he reconstructed according to the part unpublished original manuscripts, the scores of several oratorios, which were performed in the traditional Whitsun Concerts in Kloster Eberbach, Bonn and Heidelberg. In the years 2000 to 2003 witnessed the pastiche - oratorio " Nabal ", " Gideon " and " Tobit ," the putting together of the Handel and student - assistant John Christopher Smith Jr. of music of the master, her first performance since around 240 years.
Even with the series " In Search of the Lost Sound " has entered Martini uncharted territory: Here were largely unknown works by composers of the late Renaissance and early Baroque on the program, each with a focus on Italy, France, England, Spain and Portugal.
Awards
- December 2002: Order of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Publications
- Music as a form of spiritual resistance. Brandes Apsel, Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86099-622-5.