Caspar Richter

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Caspar Richter (born September 16, 1944 in Lübeck ) is a German conductor .

biography

Richter was born as the son of the pastor of the main church St. Aegidien and received piano lessons at the age of 5. He sang in Lübeck Knabenkantorei and received organ lessons with Manfred Kluge . In 1964 he passed the Abitur at the Katharineum high school .

He studied conducting, piano, drums and composition at the Hamburg University of Music and initiated the ensembles for new music and the Hamburg Chamber Opera. In 1969 he was signed to the Deutsche Oper Berlin by Lorin Maazel . From 1972 he conducted primarily contemporary operas there, including composers such as Boris Blacher , Gottfried von Eine , Hans Werner Henze , Luigi Dallapiccola , Antonio Bibalo and Aribert Reimann . Richter also directed the world premiere of Toshirō Mayuzumi's opera Kinkakuji as well as modern classics such as Moses and Aron and Wozzeck . As a répétiteur and director of studies, he worked with Karl Böhm, Eugen Jochum, Bruno Maderna, Herbert von Karajan, Giuseppe Sinopoli and Michael Gielen, among others.

Richter also conducted the RIAS and the children's concerts of the Berliner Philharmoniker . He also brought out new arrangements of Jacques Offenbach's operettas . In 1982 he directed the German-language premiere of Leonard Bernsteins Mass , but was then engaged at the Vienna State Opera (General Music Director: Lorin Maazel).

There he conducted modern repertoire and often ballets, but also at the Volksoper . He then was chief conductor of the United Theaters in Vienna for 23 years , where he directed and premiered musicals.

At the same time, Richter appeared in the Czech Republic as a conductor of symphonic music and chief conductor of the Brno Opera . Richter also appeared as the conductor of Gustav Mahler's 6th Symphony in Toblach with the Brno Philharmonic .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jutta Kähler: From Lübeck into the world: Caspar Richter. In: Lübeckische Blätter 184 (2019), p. 26 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck