Carl Bartuzat

Carl Bartuzat (born March 20, 1882 in Berlin , † January 16, 1959 in Leipzig ) was a German flautist .

Life

Carl Bartuzat grave in the south cemetery in Leipzig

At the age of 16 Carl Bartuzat left Berlin and became a flute student of Maximilian Schwedler in Leipzig. Bartuzat was trained in the spirit of the German flute school of the 19th century. He received the decisive impetus for his further musical development from Arthur Nikisch , who hired him in 1904 as second flutist in the Gewandhaus Orchestra . Bartuzat's life was inextricably linked with the orchestra. He was a member there for 47 years (1904–1951), including 32 years as a solo flutist.

In addition to his concert activities, Bartuzat hit the headlines around 1915 when he campaigned for the spread of Theobald Böhm 's flute . Despite sometimes bitter resistance, he prevailed. This deeply angered his former teacher Schwedler, whose reform flute had been used so far. Another merit was his blowing technique. He actively used articulation, vibrato and diaphragmatic work in his playing. It was soon followed by the entire wood composition of the orchestra.

In 1933 Bartuzat succeeded Schwedler as teacher of the flute class at the Leipzig Conservatory. This was only possible with the support of Lord Mayor Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , as Bartuzat could be proven to be a member of a Masonic lodge. A short time later Goerdeler himself fell victim to the political changes.

Bartuzat made radical changes in the playing tradition and thereby dissolved the regional differences in flute playing. Immediately after the Second World War, people valued his experience in building up the building. He was immediately reinstated as a university professor in Leipzig. In 1948 he was offered the professorship refused by the Nazis. In 1949 he published his cadenzas for the flute concertos in G major and D major by WA Mozart. In 1951 he was appointed as a lecturer at the musicological institute of the Karl Marx University . At the same time he resigned from the Gewandhaus Orchestra after 47 years of service. At the age of 73 he was also released as a university lecturer in retirement.

Bartuzat was an honorary member of the Leipzig University Choir of St. Pauli (today Leipzig University Choir of St. Pauli in Mainz ( German Choir )).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alwin Wollinger, Carl Bartuzat, A Contemporary Appreciation - Flute currently 3/1992.
2. ^ Seidel, Walter / Sichler, Willmar: Directory of the members of the Association of the Old Paulines in Leipzig 1937, p. 58.