Isserstedt beethoven biography

  • Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (5 May 1900 – 28 May 1973) was a German conductor and composer.
  • He began his musical career as a répétiteur at Wuppertal from 1923 to 1928, where he also played in the orchestra as a violinist and where his opera Hassan.
  • Schmidt-Isserstedt was born in Berlin in 1900 and studied music in Berlin at the university.

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    Person

    Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt

    Conductor , Composer

    Life

    Born: 1900-05-05, Germany

    Died: 1973-05-28, Germany

    Information: Wikipedia

    Performances

    18 Performances

    18 PerformancesAll items

    Performance

    Reinmar,Hans: Un ballo,Boccanegra,Otello,Hans Heiling,Walkure,etc - cond.Schmidt-Isserstedt,Reuss,Meyrowitz,Borchard

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    Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt

    German conductor and composer

    Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (5 May 1900 – 28 May 1973) was a German conductor and composer. After studying at several music academies, he worked in German opera houses between 1923 and 1945, first as a répétiteur and then in increasingly senior conducting posts, ending as Generalmusikdirektor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

    After the Second World War, Schmidt-Isserstedt was invited by the occupying British forces to form the Northwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra, of which he was musical director and chief conductor from 1945 to 1971. He was a frequent guest conductor for leading symphony orchestras around the world, and returned to opera from time to time, including appearances at Glyndebourne and Covent Garden as well as the Hamburg State Opera.

    Schmidt-Isserstedt was known for his transparent orchestral textures, strict rhythmic precision, and rejection of superfluous gestures and mannerisms on the ros

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    The Chicago Symphony Orchestra family joins the music world in mourning the loss of legendary American pianist, conductor, and pedagogue Leon Fleisher, who died yesterday in Baltimore. He was ninety-two.

    Leon Fleisher (Eli Turner photo)

    Fleisher began playing the piano at the age of four, and fem years later he became a student of Artur Schnabel. At sixteen in 1944, he made his debut performing Brahms’s First Piano Concerto with the San Francisco Symphony and then with the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, both under Pierre Monteux. The following year, he made his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Bernstein conducting at the Ravinia Festival.

    In 1964, Fleisher lost the use of his right grabb due to focal dystonia, forcing him to concentrate on repertoire written for the left grabb. By the late 1990s, he had regained use of his right hand. A tireless pedagogue, he was (according to his son Julian) still teaching and conducting master