Anton Bruckner Ring
The Anton Bruckner Ring is an award from the “ Anton Bruckner Association of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra”. All orchestral musicians and friends of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra belong to this group. After 25 years of membership in an orchestra, the ring is awarded to musicians and important personalities from culture and politics.
The idea behind the award presumably goes back to the former first cellist of the symphony orchestra and president of the Bruckner Fund Lucian Horowitz (1879–1944). Horowitz, who lost his job after the “Anschluss” of Austria in 1938, was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942 and died in Auschwitz in 1944 .
The bearers of the Bruckner Ring include u. a. Volkmar Andreae (1925), Ludwig Werba (1933), Oswald Kabasta (1936), Felix Hurdes (1950), Karl Honay (1951), Ernst Bär (1961), Rudolf Gamsjäger (1961), Julius Wachter (1961), Karl Böhm (1962), Egon Hilbert (1962), Robert Stolz (1963), Bruno Marek (1967), Robert Kolisko (1964), Albert Mitringer (1964), Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner (1969), Karl Tizian (1970), Karl Trötzmüller (1970), Walter Rhomberg (1970), Herbert Keßler (1976), Fritz Mayer (1978), Carlo Maria Giulini (1978), Oscar Deleglise (1978), Fritz Delabro (1980), Eugen Jochum (1980), Wolfgang Sawallisch ( 1980), Ernst Knava (1981), Lovro von Matačić (1981), Jürg Schaeftlein (1984), Franz Mrkvicka (1987), Georges Prêtre (1990), Helmut Zilk (1991), Alfred Wopmann (1992), Siegfried Gasser (1996 ), Martin Purtscher (1996), Günter Rhomberg (1996), Rudolf Buchbinder (1996), Horst Stein (1996), Rainer Bischof (1997), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1999) and Fabio Luisi (2007).
literature
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Anton-Bruckner-Ring. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , pp. 123–123 ( digitized version , entry in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna).
Individual evidence
- ^ Manfred Permoser: The Vienna Symphony Orchestra in the Nazi state . Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-631-36827-5 , p. 96.