Karl Schütte (clarinetist)

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Karl Schütte (born April 1, 1891 in Obernkirchen near Bückeburg , † February 11, 1977 in Dresden ) was a German clarinet virtuoso .

Life

Karl Schütte was born in 1891 as the son of the miner Karl Schütte (born 1863) and his wife Ernestine Warnecke in Obernkirchen near Bückeburg in the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe . After primary school in his hometown, he attended the Schaumburg music school in Rinteln / Weser from 1905 to 1909 ; He also studied with Eduard Heyneck (clarinet) and Johannes Merkel (harmony and counterpoint) at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Leipzig .

In 1913/14 he worked at the Neue Oper and in 1914/15 at the Hamburg City Theater . From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. From 1918 to 1922 he was 1st clarinetist at the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra . He then moved to the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden , where he was principal clarinet from 1923 to 1964. There he was a member of the brass association. In 1924 he was also appointed to the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra .

He was also a teacher for clarinet and wind ensemble playing at the Dresden Orchestra School as well as a member of the Reich Association of German Tonkünstler and music teachers . At a young age, his students also included the future conductors Fritz Busch and Rolf Reuter .

Schütte, a Protestant, was married to Tilly Schuhmacher from 1923.

Awards

  • 1964: Honorary member of the Staatskapelle Dresden
  • 1971: Labor banner

literature

  • Erich H. Müller (Ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schütte, Karl in the database musiconn.performance of the specialist information service for musicology
  2. ↑ Ortrun Landmann : Directory of names of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden: own names, names of the administrators, the musical directors and the former members from 1548 to 2013, in systematic-chronological order . Presented in 2013, updated and corrected annually since then (status: August 2017), p. 27 ( PDF ).
  3. ^ Alfred Sous : The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. History, stories and anecdotes from then to now . Lienau, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87484-125-1 , p. 158.
  4. ^ Eberhard Steindorf: Fritz Busch and Dresden . In: Steffen Lieberwirth (Ed.): Fritz Busch. All Dresden recordings. 1923-1932. Including DVD biographical documentation . Edition Günter Hänssler, Neuhausen 2008 (= Edition Staatskapelle Dresden . Vol. 30). Booklet, p. 12.
  5. ↑ Georg Antosch: With inspiration and passion. The artist portrait: General Music Director Rolf Reuter . In: Neue Zeit , November 27, 1976, vol. 32, issue 283, p. 4.
  6. ↑ Cultural survey . In: Neue Zeit , September 10, 1964, vol. 20, issue 212, p. 4.
  7. ↑ Awarded for high performance . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 6, 1971, vol. 27, issue 276, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Schütte, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clarinetist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Obernkirchen near Bückeburg
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1977
Place of death Dresden