Carl Bamberger

Carl Bamberger (born February 21, 1902 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † July 18, 1987 in New York , NY ) was an American conductor and music teacher of Austrian origin.

Life

Bamberger studied music history and philosophy at the University of Vienna, and from 1920–24 music theory and piano with Heinrich Schenker and cello with Friedrich Buxbaum. 1924–27 he was engaged as a conductor at the Danzig City Theater and from 1927–31 at the Landestheater Darmstadt . From 1930 Bamberg was a guest conductor, including in Asia, Russia and Egypt, before he emigrated to the USA in 1937 , where he led various orchestras. In 1940 he founded the New York Choral Group of Manhattan and directed it until 1945. From 1943 to 1950 he was general music director of the Columbia Spring Festival. 1938–75 he taught composition and orchestral conducting at Mannes College of Music in New York, and from 1975/76 at Louisiana State University . In 1947/1948 and 1950/1951 he was chief conductor of The Little Symphony of Montreal / La Petite Symphonie de Montréal and from 1950 to 1952 General Music Director of the Montreal Symphony Chamber Concerts . In 1951 he conducted the stage premiere of Bohuslav Martinů's Comedy on the Bridge ( Comedy on the Bridge ) at Hunter College in New York. In the years 1957–74 he appeared again in Europe as a guest conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra . Engagements also took him to Cologne, Hamburg and Frankfurt.

His student circle included Marin Alsop , George Cleve, Armen Donelian , Richard Goode , Leonard Gregory Kastle, Ira Kraemer, Daniel Lipton, Murray Perahia , Eve Queler, Michael Jeffrey Shapiro, Henry Shek, Roy Sonne and Dina Soresi Winter.

He was married to the cellist Lotte (own Maria Charlotte; nee Hammerschlag), who after studying violin at the Vienna Music Academy worked as a violist. After emigrating, she played with the Palestine Symphony Orchestra in Tel Aviv from 1936–38 . After that she lived in New York. She also taught at the Mannes College of Music in New York and performed as a soloist in numerous concerts.

Fonts

• The Conductor's Art . Edited and with an introduction by Carl Bamberger. Illustrated by BF Dolbin .: McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York 1965.

Columbia University Press; New York 1989, (new edition) ISBN 0-231-07128-0

• The Viennese photogram archive . In: Musikblätter des Anbruch . Vorwärts-Verlag, Vienna 1936, issue 1, p. 6.
• The Schenker Institute at the New Vienna Conservatory . In: Musikblätter des Anbruch . Vorwärts-Verlag, Vienna 1936, issue 1, p. 7f.
• Three Mozart Overtures: Dramatic Aspect and Structure . In: Friends of Mozart Inc. Newsletter, New York 2001, pp. 1-3.

Discography

selection

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio . Erich Wenk (Don Fernando), Heinz Rehfuß (Don Pizarro), Julius Patzak (Florestan), Gladys Kuchta (Leonore), Melitta Muszely (Marzelline), Karl Kümmel (Rocco); Choir and orchestra of the NDR Hamburg, around 1958

Guilde Internationale du Disque SMS 2120 (2 LP) -STEREO-, Gala-CD GL-100772 -MONO-

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonoren Overture No. 3 . Frankfurt Opera Orchestra

Concert Hall-M944

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 . Frankfurt Opera Orchestra

Concert Hall AM-2040, publ. 1961, ReDiscovery Stereo CD RD 086

• Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 . Frankfurt Opera Orchestra

Musical Masterpiece Society MMS-2096, ReDiscovery RD 095/096 (2 CD set)

• Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 . Frankfurter Opernorchester
  Tragic Overture; North German Symphony Orchestra Hamburg

Musical Masterpiece Society MMS-2091, ReDiscovery Stereo CD RD 086

• Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 . Frankfurt Orchestra
  Alto Rhapsody; Grace Hoffman , North German Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra

Crowell-Collier CCRG 137, 1957

• Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto . Riccardo Odnoposoff, Frankfurt Opera Orchestra, ca.1954

Musical Masterpiece Society MMS-145, DHR-7874-9 (6 CD set)

• Joseph Haydn: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra . Herbert Bräuning, Frankfurt Chamber Orchestra, 1957

Musical Masterpiece Society M-2101

• Franz Liszt: Les Preludes . North German Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg

Musical Masterpiece Society MMS 166

• Franz Liszt: Hungarian Fantasy . Sondra Bianca (piano), North German Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg

Musical Masterpiece Society MMS 166

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 32. Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, approx. 1960

Musical Masterpiece Society M-5003, Gala CD GL-100802

• Franz Schubert: Symphony in B minor “Unfinished” . Pasdeloup Orchester Paris, ca.1960

Musical Masterpiece Society M-5003

• Richard Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg . Rudolf Gonszar (Hans Sachs), Karl Liebl (Walter v. Stolzing), Uta Graf (Eva), Jakob Rees (David), Gerhard Misske (Beckmesser); Orchestra of the Frankfurt Municipal Opera House, 1963

Musical Masterpiece Society M-2039

• Richard Wagner: Lohengrin (abridged version). Karl Liebl (Lohengrin), Uta Graf (Elsa), Anneliese Schlosshauer (Ortrud), Leonardo Wolovsky (King Heinrich), Roland Kunz (Telramund and Herold)

Musical Masterpiece Society (?)

• Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde. Prelude 1st act and love death. Frankfurt Opera Orchestra, ca.1959

Columbia HL 7172; Musical Masterpiece Society MMS 2093

• Tschaikowsky, PI: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor. Sondra Bianca (piano), Orchestra of the 'Concerts de Paris' Direction Bamberger, C., Musical Masterpiece Society MMS-177

literature

• Walter Pass , Gerhard Scheit , Wilhelm Svoboda : Orpheus in exile. The expulsion of Austrian music 1938–1945 . Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1995, p. 205; ISBN 3-85115-200-X .
• Stefan Jaeger (ed.): The conductors' book of Atlantis. An encyclopedia . Atlantis-Musikbuch Verlag, Zurich 1985, p. 60, ISBN 3-254-00106-0 .
• Austrian music lexicon . Volume 1. (Ed. Rudolf Flotzinger), Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, pp. 104f., ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
• Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , pp. 62f.

Web links

• Carl Bamberger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Obituary in the New York Times
• Audio document of an interview with the Bamberger couple on November 13, 1989 (English)
• Bamberger, detailed biography in LexM , University of Hamburg

Footnotes

1. ↑ Information in LexM, Lemma Bamberger
2. ↑ The first performance of Veselohra na mostě on March 18, 1937 only took place as a broadcast on the Czech radio.