Burkhard Glaetzner

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Burkhard Glaetzner (on the right) at the 27th International Music Seminar in Weimar (1986)

Burkhard Glaetzner (born May 29, 1943 in Posen ) is a German oboe virtuoso and conductor . He is one of the leading oboe players in Germany.

Life

Burkhard Glaetzner's grandfather was the Goethe researcher Hermann August Korff , who last taught in Leipzig. He was born in Posen in 1943, the family moved to Falkenhain / Saxony in 1944 and to Leipzig in 1950. In 1953 he received his first recorder lessons, and two years later he made his first public appearance. After moving to Berlin (East) in 1957, he attended the special school for music on Rheinsberger Straße from 1958 to 1962 . He switched to the oboe and received his first piano lessons.

After graduating from school in 1962, he took up oboe studies with Hans Werner Wätzig at the German University of Music in Berlin . In 1963/64 he won first prizes at the GDR university competition for wind instruments. In 1965 he passed his state examination and became an aspirant at the Berlin Conservatory for one year . From 1966 to 1982 he was principal oboist in the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra under Herbert Kegel and Wolf-Dieter Hauschild . Since 1969 he has also been a lecturer for oboe at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music , to which he was appointed full professor in 1982 . In 1992 he went to the Berlin University of the Arts as professor of oboe, today's University of the Arts . His students include a. Matthias Bäcker , Kai Rapsch and Bernd Schober .

In 1990 he was one of the founding members of the Forum for Contemporary Music Leipzig . Two years later, as a member of the "Constituent Working Group", he was co-founder and vice-president of the Free Academy of the Arts in Leipzig , which was active until 2003. He also became a full member of the music class of the Saxon Academy of the Arts in Dresden. As part of the Handel Festival , he was a juror in the competition for the Handel Prize of the City of Halle . In 2013 he acted as chairman of the jury for chamber wind music at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation . In 2017 he was the patron of the instrument of the year (oboe) proclaimed by the Landesmusikrat Berlin . Glaetzner is a member of the board of trustees of the Friends of the MDR Sinfonieorchester e. V.

meaning

Frank Schneider counts him among the leading oboe virtuosos in the world. As the most important oboist in his country, he encouraged "the creation of an oboe repertoire in the GDR and Eastern Europe" (Emmanouil Vitakis): He brought more than 100 works, including oboe concerts by Reiner Bredemeyer , Georg Katzer , Friedrich Schenker , Christfried Schmidt and Friedrich Goldmann , Luca Lombardi , Gerhard Rosenfeld , Krzysztof Meyer and Toru Takemitsu for the premiere.

Awarded numerous prizes at international music competitions, Glaetzner founded the Auslos-Trio in 1968 together with Wolfgang Weber (violoncello) and Klaus Schlösser (bassoon). Later, Gerhard Erber (piano) took over for closer . With the trio he devoted himself to baroque music and increasingly also to contemporary music . Together with the composer and pianist Friedrich Schenker , he initiated the Hanns Eisler group for new music in 1970 .

Burkhard Glaetzner (GDR) performed in the oboe duo with Ingo Goritzki (FRG). Yun I-sang and Reiner Bredemeyer u. a. wrote duets for her. In addition, Glaetzner worked on solo pieces a. a. with Nicolaus A. Huber , Hans-Karsten Raecke , Karl Ottomar Treibmann and Max E. Keller .

In 1983 he also developed the Ensemble I Solisti Instrumentali Leipzig from many years of work with various specialists in baroque interpretation . From 1988 to 2003 Glaetzner was artistic director of the chamber orchestra Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum . Concert tours through Europe, Asia and America as well as numerous music productions that have received international awards complement his diverse activities as a soloist, conductor and teacher.

family

Burkhard Glaetzner is married and has a daughter. He lived in Berlin from 1992 to 2017 and has been back in Leipzig since then.

Honourings and prices

with the Eisler Group:

Discography

His discography amounts to more than 50 recordings with old and new music.

Fonts

  • Burkhard Glaetzner, Reiner Kontressowitz (ed.): Game horizons. New music group “Hanns Eisler” 1970–1990 . Leipzig 1990.

literature

  • Glaetzner, Burkhard. In: Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. 45th edition 2006/2007, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2006, ISBN 978-3-7950-2042-2 , p. 415.
  • Glaetzner, Burkhard. In: Alain Pâris: Classical music in the 20th century: instrumentalists, singers, conductors, orchestras, choirs . 2nd expanded, completely revised edition, dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-32501-1 , p. 302.
  • Glaetzner, Burkhard. In: Axel Schniederjürgen (Ed.): Kürschner's Musicians Handbook. 5th edition. Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3 , p. 142.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burkhard Glaetzner: Address. On my own behalf . In: MusikTexte , 37, 1990, p. 61.
  2. ↑ Ingrid Sonntag: The Free Academy of Arts in Leipzig 1992–2003 , bpb.de, May 18, 2011, accessed on February 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ Christoph Rink: Handel Sponsorship Award - Handel Research Award . In: Announcements of the Friends and Sponsors of the Handel House in Halle eV 1/2014, pp. 11–13, here: p. 12.
  4. ↑ Burkhard Glaetzner , fmb-hochschulwettbewerb.de, accessed on February 11, 2018.
  5. ↑ The Patrons of the Instruments of the Year , landesmusikrat-berlin.de, accessed on February 11, 2018.
  6. ↑ Board and Board of Trustees , mdr-orchesterfreunde.de, accessed on February 11 2018th
  7. ↑ Frank Schneider : A small miracle. The new music group “Hanns Eisler” Leipzig . In: MusikTexte 33/34 (1990), pp. 109–111, here: p. 109.
  8. ^ Geoffrey Burgess, Bruce Haynes: The Oboe (Yale Muical Instrumental Series), Yale University Pess, New Haven 2004, p. 204.
  9. ↑ Emmanouil Vitakis: instruments and interpreters, in: Jörn Peter Hiekel , Christian Utz (ed.), Lexikon Neue Musik, Stuttgart / Kassel 2016, pp. 292–305, here: p. 297.
  10. ↑ a b World premieres oboe concerts (PDF), accessed on February 11, 2018.
  11. ↑ Nina Noeske: Musical deconstruction. New instrumental music in the GDR . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 3-412-20045-X , p. 23.
  12. ↑ a b Nina Noeske: Musical deconstruction. New instrumental music in the GDR . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 3-412-20045-X , p. 336.
  13. ↑ Julien Singer: Oboe, IV.6. In: MGG Online, ed. by Laurenz Lütteken, Kassel, Stuttgart, New York 2016 ff., published 2015-10-06
  14. ↑ Instrumental Competition 1968 , competition.festival.cz, accessed on February 12, 2018.
  15. ^ Previous winners of the Georg Philipp Telemann Prize , magdeburg.de, accessed on February 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Glaetzner, Burkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oboist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses