Artur Rother
Artur Rother (born October 12, 1885 in Stettin ; † September 22, 1972 in Aschau im Chiemgau ) was a German conductor .
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As the son of the Stettin organist and music teacher Paul Rother, he attended a grammar school in his hometown Stettin and received his first lessons in piano, organ and composition from his father. Rother later studied with Hugo Kaun in Berlin, among others . From 1906 he was solo repetitor , choir director and first conductor in Wiesbaden and from 1907 to 1914 assistant at the Bayreuth Festival . From 1927 to 1934 he was General Music Director (GMD) in Dessau . After the “ seizure of power ” by the National Socialists , he joined the “ NSDAP ring of sacrifices ” in 1933 .
From 1934 Rother was a conductor at the German Opera House in Berlin , where he was appointed general music director on January 30, 1937. In 1941 he edited Mozart's opera Idomeneo and premiered the new version, which had been checked by Hans Joachim Moser , in 1942. After his replacement by Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt , Rother was guest conductor from 1943/44 to 1958 in the alternative quarters of the opera house, which was bombed in 1943. In addition, in 1943 he became director of the large radio orchestra.
After the end of the Second World War , he was chief conductor of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1946 to 1949 . He was then a guest conductor with the RIAS Symphony Orchestra and at the Städtische Oper Berlin . Between 1935 and 1964 Rother conducted 41 concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker, including in Paris and Spain.
His grave is in the cemetery in Aschau im Chiemgau .
Honors
- 1952: Berlin Art Prize
- 1953: Federal Cross of Merit
- 1955: Large Federal Cross of Merit
- 1965: Honorary member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
literature
- Erhard Augustat: The opera orchestra in Charlottenburg - 75 years from the German Opera House to the German Opera Berlin . Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-926412-05-4 .
- Arthur Rother , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 50/1972 of December 4, 1972, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Heiko Bockstiegel: Gentlemen, do you know the piece? Memories of German-speaking conductors of the 20th century . Volume 1. Wolfratshausen 1996, pp. 177-182.
- Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 389-390.
Web links
- Literature by and about Artur Rother in the catalog of the German National Library
- Artur Rother at Discogs (English)
- Artur Rother in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 5.917.
- ↑ a b Fred K. Prieberg: Handbuch , p. 5.918.
- ↑ Concert dates with Peter Muck: 100 Years of the Berlin Philharmonic . 1982. ISBN 37952 0341 4
Leo Blech (1923–1924, 1949–1953) | Bruno Walter (1925–1929) | Karl Dammer (1937–1939) | Artur Rother (1939-1943, 1953-1958) | Ferenc Fricsay (1949–1952) | Richard Kraus (1954–1961) | Lorin Maazel (1965–1971) | Jesús López Cobos (1981–1990) | Giuseppe Sinopoli (1990) | Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (1992–1997) | Christian Thielemann (1997-2004) | Renato Palumbo (2006-2008) | Donald Runnicles (since 2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rother, Artur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rother, Arthur; Rother, Artur Martin; Rother, Arthur Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22nd September 1972 |
| Place of death | Aschau im Chiemgau |