Bruno Seidler-Winkler

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Bruno Seidler-Winkler

Karl Ludwig Bruno Seidler-Winkler (born July 18, 1880 in Berlin ; † October 19, 1960 there ) was a German conductor , pianist and arranger .

Life

Bruno Seidler-Winkler was born as the son of a musician in Berlin and already appeared musically in his youth. He received his first training at the Stern Conservatory on the piano with Ernst Jedliczka. He sang in the choir of the Berlin Cathedral . At the age of ten he also played the violin and was considered a gifted pianist; four years later he conducted in a small theater in Berlin. As the artistic recording manager of the German Edison Society, he got to know and master the possibilities of sound recording as early as the 1890s .

He was then able to contribute his experience to the newly founded Deutsche Grammophon . From 1903 to 1923 he was their artistic director responsible for a large number of sound recordings. He directed recordings for the opera ensembles of Berlin, Dresden, Munich and Vienna and organized the necessary recording facilities and rooms. The acoustic recording technology used in the early years of record recording was fraught with many technical problems and limitations. With the arrangements he chose, Bruno Seidler-Winkler achieved the effect desired by the individual composers extremely well. He was one of the first house conductors to lead the Deutsche Grammophon orchestra. In 1908, under his direction, he made the first complete record of the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet (with Emmy Destinn in the leading role) and in 1923, when he left Deutsche Grammophon, the first complete recording of Beethoven's 9th Symphony . He was also active as a conductor from 1903 to 1932. From 1923 to 1925 he worked as an orchestra conductor in Chicago and from 1926 to September 1932, as the predecessor of Eugen Jochum, he conducted the radio symphony orchestra of the Funk-Hour Berlin .

He also accompanied recordings of well-known artists - singers and instrumentalists - on the piano. Numerous recordings have been preserved that were made with the singer Otto Reutter from 1902 until shortly after the First World War and Váša Příhoda. From the beginning of the 1930s he was engaged at the Berlin University of Music in the training of young artists for the musical design of the radio program. He worked as arranger for the master sextet in the mid- 1930s . In 1938 he was involved in a first electrical recording of the opera Die Walküre by Richard Wagner, which had been planned since the early 1930s and then started in 1935 in Vienna by Bruno Walter and the Wiener Symphoniker , the missing parts of the second act under his direction in Berlin for Electrola ( His Master's Voice ) were recorded. Also in 1938 he accompanied the young French violinist Ginette Neveu on her first recordings.

In addition to classical music, his repertoire also included light music such as operettas, chansons and hits. He arranged the recording of the song Lili Marleen with Lale Andersen in 1939. He also directed the instrumental ensemble that accompanied the recording.

The soprano Brigitta Seidler-Winkler , born in 1936, is his daughter. In 1913 he became a member of the Berlin Masonic Lodge Zum Widder .

A few months before his death, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1960 .

Bruno Seidler-Winkler was buried in the state's own cemetery in the Kisseln in the Berlin district of Spandau .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Blume, Ludwig Finscher: Music in the past and present: general encyclopedia of music, Volume 2 , Edition 2, p. 1761, Bärenreiter, 2006.
  2. ↑ a b c Biography and sample recordings at the Center for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM) at King's College London , accessed October 25, 2010 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Description of the 1938 recording of the opera Die Walküre on naxos.com, by Mark Obert-Thorn (English).
  4. ↑ Pekka Gronow, Ilpo Saunio: An international history of the recording industry , Continuum International Publishing Group, 1999, p. 195, online at books.google.com, accessed on October 25, 2010 (English).
  5. ↑ 1922: New Sinfonierorchester Berlin, Chor der Staatsoper Berlin, Bruno Seidler-Winkler, Ethel Hausea, Eleanor Schlosshauer, Eugen Transky, Albert Fischer. In: UNESCO . Archived from the original on December 15, 2015 ; accessed on August 8, 2018 .
  6. ↑ War years on otto-reutter.de, accessed September 8, 2014.
  7. ↑ Dietmar Schenk: The Berlin University of Music: Prussian Conservatory between Romantic Classicism and New Music, 1869–1932 / 33 , Franz Steiner Verlag, Berlin 2004, pp. 266–268, online at books.google.com, accessed on 25 October 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Seidler-Winkler, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seidler-Winkler, Karl Ludwig Bruno (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, arranger and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1960
Place of death Berlin