Alois Springer

This article deals with the conductor and violinist Alois Springer. For the painter see Alois J. Springer .

Alois Springer (born December 20, 1935 in Groß Olkowitz , Czechoslovakia ) is a German conductor and violinist.

Life

Alois Springer began taking violin lessons at the age of six. After he was expelled from his homeland, the Sudetenland , and after an abandoned commercial apprenticeship, the director of the Fulda Chamber Orchestra, Heinz von Schumann, discovered his talent on the violin. He made Springer his concertmaster at the age of 15 . On January 18, 1953, Springer made his debut in the Hessischer Rundfunk as a violin soloist with the Fulda Chamber Orchestra . He then studied violin and piano at the Frankfurt University of Music from 1954 to 1956 . Subsequently, he took up conducting studies with Martin Stephanie at the Bergisches Landeskonservatorium in Wuppertal. In the same year he became first violinist and assistant conductor in the Zurich Chamber Orchestra .

In 1959 Springer was appointed first concertmaster at the Trier Opera . From 1965 to 1969 he was employed as a violin soloist and second conductor with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Luxembourg. In 1966 Erich Leinsdorf brought Springer to Tanglewood , where he worked with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as assistant to Leinsdorf and Adrian Boult . Leonard Bernstein and Alois Springer met in Tanglewood, at the International Berkshire Music Festival 1965, after which Springer worked from 1967 to 1968 as Bernstein's personal assistant and Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic . On January 27, 1968, he introduced the 14-year-old cellist Lawrence Foster as conductor of the New York Philharmonic in the TV series “Young people's concerts”. Springer left New York in 1968 when he received an offer to become chief conductor of the Philharmonia Hungarica . With this orchestra he celebrated great success and went on tour around the world.

Springer also played a. a. with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra , the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra , the Stuttgart Philharmonic , the Sofia State Philharmonic, the Sofia Soloist Ensemble, the Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra, the Plovdiv State Philharmonic, the Moscow Festival Orchestra, the RIAS Symphony Orchestra Berlin , the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg , the Heidelberg Chamber Orchestra and the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim .

In 2000 Springer conducted one of the last concerts of the Philharmonia Hungarica Orchestra in Germany, which was disbanded in 2001. For the last time he conducted the Neue Philharmonia Hungarica, which has now been restructured for festivals, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian uprising and the founding of the Philharmonia Hungarica in October 2006 in the theater of the city of Marl iW The concert was recorded by Deutschlandfunk as the concert document of the week and on Aired November 12, 2006.

In 2003 Springer was also a juror at an international composition competition in Greece.

Honors

• 1963: 1st prize at the renowned conducting competition Concours international de jeunes chefs d'orchestre in Besançon, France
• 1964: 1st prize at the German music competition Federal selection of concerts of young artists , Hanover
• 1965: Eleonore R. Crane Memorial Conducting Prize in Tanglewood, Massachusetts
• 1965: Koussevitzky Conducting Prize at the International Berkshire Music Festival
• 1967: 1st prize and gold medal at the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition in New York

Web links

• Alois Springer at Discogs (English)
• Alois Springer at Allmusic (English)
• Alois Springer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Alois Springer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Alois Springer on the website of the concert agency PrimArte
• Alois Springer's website

Publications

• Alois Springer: ... and Olkowitz is by the sea. Beauty is the devil , autobiography, ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-012-2

Individual evidence

1. ^ Catalog of the German National Library
2. ^ Program of the New York Philharmonic from 1967 ( Memento from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Lawrence Foster at www.cello.org , accessed September 2, 2016
4. ↑ Chronicle of the Philharmonia Hungarica ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ International composition competition. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .