Johannes Bastiaan

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Johannes "Hans" Bastiaan (born February 1, 1911 in Nuremberg ; † October 11, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German violinist . He was a member of the Berlin Philharmonic for over 40 years . From 1945 to 1970 he was the first violinist of the Bastiaan Quartet .

Life

Bastiaan was born in Nuremberg in 1911 as the son of the Dutch musician Gerrit Bastiaan. He attended the elementary school in Berlin. At the age of eight he received violin lessons from his father. From 1920 to 1924 he was tutored by Robert Zeidler in Berlin. From 1925 to 1928 he attended the orchestral school in Berlin, where Carl Seidel was one of his teachers.

From 1928 he studied violin and chamber music with Rudolf Deman at the State Academic University of Music . From 1931 to 1933 he attended Max Rostal's violin class , after which he was briefly his private student. Max Strub then continued to teach him from 1933 at the music college.

Bastiaan joined Edwin Fischer's chamber orchestra as a permanent member in 1932 . In the 1932/33 season he played in the Berlin Radio Orchestra . In 1933/34 he helped out with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra until he became a permanent member of the orchestra under Wilhelm Furtwängler on October 1, 1934 . In 1939 he received the position of 3rd concert master. In the course of the “raids” of the Nazis, he was loaned a precious Guadagnini violin. During the denazification in 1945 he acted as an advocate for violinist friend Hans Gieseler . After World War II he served as repetiteur and deputy section leader of the first violins of the Berlin Philharmonic. In addition to Furtwängler, he also experienced Leo Borchard , Sergiu Celibidache and Herbert von Karajan as a leading conductor . In 1965 Bastiaan became a member of the five-man council and in 1967 of the orchestra's staff council. In 1968 he took over the deputy chairmanship. In 1964 he was awarded the Golden Ring of Honor of the Berlin Philharmonic. On August 31, 1976, he left the orchestra.

From 1939 to 1945 he played chamber music in the Pozniak Trio in Breslau. In 1945 he founded the Bastiaan Quartet in Berlin, which he headed as primary violinist until 1970. Concert tours have taken the string quartet to Germany and abroad. In 1963 he received the honorary title of Berlin Chamber Virtuoso .

From 1962 he taught violin at the Berlin Conservatory. After the Conservatory's transformation into the Julius Stern Institute , he was a member of the teaching staff at the Berlin University of Music. In 1971 he became a professor .

Bastiaan was a member of the International Society for New Music .

In 2007 he took part in the documentary Das Reichsorchester on the history of the Berlin Philharmonic. An interview with Bastiaan can be found in the booklet accompanying the CD edition Berliner Philharmoniker - in step with the times .

Bastiaan was married and had two children. He died in 2012 at the age of 100 in Berlin.

Discographic notes

literature

  • Hedwig and Erich Hermann Mueller von Asow (eds.): Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954 . 2nd edition of the German Musicians' Lexicon, de Gruyter, Berlin 1954.
  • Gerassimos Avgerinos: artist biographies: the members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from 1882–1972 . Self-published, Berlin 1972, p. 21f.
  • Who's who in Germany . 5th edition, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Ottobrunn 1974, ISBN 3-921220-06-8 , p. 67.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in Tagesspiegel from October 21, 2012.
  2. ↑ Misha Aster: "The Reich Orchestra". The Berlin Philharmonic and National Socialism . Siedler, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88680-876-2 , p. 123.
  3. ↑ Misha Aster: "The Reich Orchestra". The Berlin Philharmonic and National Socialism . Siedler, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88680-876-2 , p. 127.
  4. ↑ Misha Aster: "The Reich Orchestra". The Berlin Philharmonic and National Socialism . Siedler, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88680-876-2 , pp. 334f.
  5. ^ Peter Muck : One Hundred Years of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra . Volume 3: The members of the orchestra, the programs, the concert tours, first and world premieres . Schneider, Tutzing 1982, ISBN 3-7952-0341-4 , p. 4.
  6. ^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 71.
  7. ^ Kai Luehrs-Kaiser : A serenade for Hitler . In: Die Welt , No. 255, November 1, 2007, p. 29.
  8. ↑ Carola Pompetzki: Berliner Philharmoniker: "In the rhythm of time" . In: Welt am Sonntag , No. 49, December 9, 2007, p. 84.
personal data
SURNAME Bastiaan, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bastiaan, Hans (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 2012
Place of death Berlin