Ádám Fischer

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Ádám Fischer, 2008

Ádám Fischer (born September 9, 1949 in Budapest ) is an internationally active Hungarian conductor who has emerged as an expert on the works of Joseph Haydn , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Richard Wagner and Béla Bartók .

Life

Ádám Fischer's grandparents were victims of the Holocaust . He studied composition and conducting first in Budapest, then in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky . In 1973 he won first prize at the Cantelli Competition in Milan and then got his first position as a répétiteur at the Graz Opera . He then became first conductor at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki , at the State Theater in Karlsruhe and at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich . From 1981 to 1983 he was general music director at the Freiburg Theater in Freiburg im Breisgau, from 1987 to 1992 at the Kassel State Theater and from 2000 to 2005 at the Mannheim National Theater . In 2001 he took over the management of Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival at short notice , for which he was elected conductor of the year 2002 by the magazine Opernwelt . From 2007 to 2010 he was general music director of the Hungarian State Opera , he left the position due to political quarrels. With the beginning of the 2015/2016 season he will be the first concert conductor of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra .

His international career began very early. The beginning of his collaboration with the Vienna State Opera goes back to 1973. In 1984 he made his debut at the Paris Opera with Der Rosenkavalier , and in 1986 at La Scala in Milan with Die Zauberflöte . He made his debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London in 1989 with Die Fledermaus , which at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1994 with Verdi's Otello .

In September 2016 he conducted The Magic Flute again at La Scala in Milan . His debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker - on February 8, 2018 a. a. with the 9th symphony by Antonín Dvořák - was celebrated by the audience.

In addition to his opera engagements, he frequently conducts major symphony orchestras around the world as a guest conductor.

In 1987 he was co-initiator of the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt , Burgenland , for which he founded the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonic . In addition to concerts and opera performances in Esterházy Palace , he recorded all of Joseph Haydn's symphonies with this orchestra between 1987 and 2001 in the palace's Haydn Hall, which the composer helped to design.

Since 1998 he has also been chief conductor of the Danish National Chamber Orchestra (formerly: Danish Radio-Sinfonietta) in Copenhagen , with which he recorded all of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera series until 2006 . Fischer is currently playing all of Mozart's symphonies on CD with this orchestra.

Fischer's complete recording of Béla Bartók's orchestral works , which he recorded from 1989–1992, was recognized by critics as a reference recording.

Ádám Fischer's brother Iván Fischer is also an internationally successful conductor.

Awards

literature

  • Andreas Oplatka: The whole world is an orchestra: The conductor Adam Fischer , Paul-Zsolnay-Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-552-05954-2

See also

Web links

Commons : Ádám Fischer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vanessa Mock: Hungary's artists take fury at media law to Brussels. In: The Independent . January 12, 2011 (English).;
  2. ↑ Sybill Mahlke: The power of fire is contagious. In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 9, 2018, accessed April 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Ádám Fischer becomes an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera . Article dated January 19, 2017, accessed January 20, 2017
  4. ↑ Wolf Prize 2018 goes to mdw graduate Ádám Fischer . Retrieved June 11, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Ádám
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest