Barbara Probst-Polášek

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Barbara Probst-Polášek (born March 8, 1939 in Reichenberg as Barbara Effenberger ; † April 15, 2019 ) was a German concert guitarist and lutenist .

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Barbara Probst-Polášek came from a family of musicians from Bohemia and began playing the guitar at the age of seven. From the age of four she received piano and violin lessons from her father, the conductor Ottomar Effenberger. She studied at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar with Ursula Peter and the Prague Conservatory with Stephan Urban .

Her international career began with winning important guitar competitions in Vienna in 1959 and in Paris in 1964 . She fled in 1960 with her two year old son and not a Weißgerber - classical guitar on Berlin from East Germany to West Germany. From 1961 she was a regular guest at the music weeks at Schloss Elmau . Andrés Segovia's master class student played with Julian Bream and Aurèle Nicolet , among others . In 1964 she won the First Prize of the Concours International de Guitare of French Radio. As an artist for the Dandelot concert agency in Paris, she performed two days after Arthur Rubinstein at the 30th International Festival in Strasbourg in 1968 .

In addition to numerous television appearances and radio recordings, two records were released with her. A release by RC A Victor contained works for concert guitar as well as works for concert guitar and cello in a duo with Jan Polášek . Works for lute, arranged for concert guitar, have been published by the French record company Erato.

She acquired the reputation of an excellent interpreter and recognized specialist in the arrangement and interpretation of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach . In addition, she interpreted works of contemporary music and often played the guitar parts in the orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

She was also committed to training the concert guitar. Since 1962 she has taught at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and founded an international guitar festival with competition in 1970, which became the International ARD Music Competition in 1976 . She was a frequent juror at international competitions for concert guitar, especially the ORTF competition in Paris. Since 1997 she has been a lecturer at the University of Music and Theater in Munich .

The mother of four children was married to the cellist Jan Polášek in her first marriage and to Michael Probst, a son of the resistance fighter Christoph Probst , in her second marriage .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice Barbara Probst-Polášek , Süddeutsche Zeitung from April 20, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Sudetendeutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste e. V.
  3. ^ Wolf Moser : 23rd "International Guitar Competition 1981" of the French radio in Paris. In: Guitar & Laute 2, 1980, 3, p. 20 f.
  4. ^ Website of Bach Cantatas
  5. ^ Report of a memorial service for Christoph Probst ( Memento from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Probst-Polášek, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Effenberger, Barbara (maiden name); Polášek, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert guitarist and lutenist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenberg
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 2019