Sixten Ehrling
Sixten Ehrling ( born April 3, 1918 in Malmö, Sweden, † 13 February 2005 in New York City ) was a Swedish conductor.
Ehrling studied from 1936 to 1941 at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm (piano, violin, composition, diplomas in music lessons, organ, conducting ). In 1941, he spent reasons of study for a year at the Semperoper in Dresden, where he assisted Karl Böhm.
Sixten Ehrling made his breakthrough as a conductor in 1950, where he conducted a concert in the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra Igor Stravinsky's " Sacre du Printemps ". The Swedish King Gustav VI. Adolf finally gave Ehrling the title of " principal conductor of the Royal Court ". From 1953 to 1960 Ehrling headed the Royal Opera in Stockholm as a director. During these years he worked closely with the singer Jussi Björling and Birgit Nilsson Stars.
1952/53, played Ehrling with the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra the first recording of the complete symphonies of Jean Sibelius ' one.
Ehrling was considered a premiere conductor. Caused a sensation, for example, the premiere of the opera " Ariana " by the Swedish composer Karl- Birger Blomdahl at the Stockholm Opera in 1959, a production that has appeared in Edinburgh in the same year.
1960 receipted Ehrling after disputes the position of Opera Director in Stockholm and professionally oriented towards the U.S., where he eventually in 1963 the conductor Paul Paray as chief conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra followed ( 1963-1973 ).
From 1973 to Ehrling lived permanently in New York. At the local Juilliard School of Music, he worked from 1973 to 1987 as head of the courses for conducting ( the most famous of his students include Myung- Whun Chung, JoAnn Falletta, Andrew Litton and Andreas Delfs ). 1973 was Ehrling made his debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera.
In addition Ehrling acted as musical advisor and principal guest conductor of the Denver Symphony Orchestra (1978-1985) and as artistic consultant to the San Diego Symphony Orchestra ( 1985-1988). 1993 Ehrling became chief conductor and musical advisor of the three orchestras in the Manhattan School of Music.
In the years 1974-1976 held Ehrling also the post of chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.