Daniel Nazareth

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Daniel Nazareth (born June 8, 1948 in Bombay ; † June 19, 2014 in Vienna ) was an Austrian conductor and composer of Indian origin. From 1992 to 1996 he was chief conductor of the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig.

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Daniel Nazareth, Catholic, was born in 1948 as the son of the rhetoric professor Edgar Nazareth and his wife Enid, nee. Pereira, born in Bombay. He received his first violin lessons at the age of seven. From 1964 he studied economics at the University of Bombay ( Bachelor's Degree in Commerce and Economics 1968). He then took up piano and music theory studies, and in 1969 he received a licentiate from the Royal School of Music London in piano. From 1972 he studied composition and conducting a. a. with Hans Swarowsky and Karl Österreicher at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (diploma with distinction in orchestral conducting 1975). After his competition success in Denmark in 1974, Igor Markevitch brought him to Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne in the south of France as a private student .

Nazareth made his conducting debut with the chamber orchestra in Bombay. In 1975/76 he was an assistant conductor at the Wiener Musikverein . In 1976 he was invited by the Boston Symphony Orchestra to the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, Massachusetts, where he worked with Leonard Bernstein , Sir Colin Davis and Seiji Ozawa . His conducting performance caught the eye of Gian Carlo Menotti , who hired him in 1977 as the opera conductor for the new production of Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Spoleto Festival in Italy. In 1978 he conducted Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro , Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia and Verdi's La traviata for the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto.

He then worked as a guest conductor. Nazareth conducted in the course of his career a. a. with the Berliner Philharmoniker , the Wiener Symphoniker , the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks , the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden , the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg , the Orchester de Paris , the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia , the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Hilversum, and the Frankfurter Opera and museum orchestras , with the Orquestra Gulbenkian Lisbon and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.

From 1982 to 1985 he was the permanent conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra (West), which has been called the Berlin Symphony Orchestra since 1990 . In 1988 he assisted Lorin Maazel in Verdi's Requiem at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. In 1988 he became music director himself. He conducted a. a. Verdi's Un ballo in maschera and La traviata , Puccini's Madama Butterfly and La rondine , Britten's The Rape of Lucretia and Orff's Carmina Burana . From 1990 to 1992 he was music director of the summer festival in the Verona Arena , where he made his debut in 1982 with a new production of Britten's The Rape of Lucretia . He worked there with stars of the opera scene and conducted Bizet's Carmen , Puccini's Turandot and Tosca and Verdi's Aida .

From 1992 he worked as chief conductor of the MDR Symphony Orchestra , with which he had made his debut ten years earlier. On the occasion of Pope John Paul II's 15th year in office , he and the radio orchestra performed in the Vatican in 1993. In the same year he premiered the joint composition Laudatio Pacis by Sofia Gubaidulina , Paul-Heinz Dittrich and Marek Kopelent in the Berlin Philharmonic . In 1996 the triumvirate Marcello Viotti , Fabio Luisi and Manfred Honeck succeeded him in Leipzig.

In 2000 he conducted a Tosca production at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in the Olympic Stadium in Rome and at the Expo 2000 in Hanover. In 2002, he brought with the Vienna Symphony at the Bregenz Festival by the International Gustav Mahler Society Vienna in order given new critical edition of Mahler's Symphony No. 5 premiered. In 2011 he was appointed chief conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica in San José, which premiered Nazareth's compositions from the 2000s.

He was married to Wiebke Nazareth since 1988 and has three children. A few weeks after a liver transplant , he died in Vienna in 2014.

Awards

  • 1969: Sir Adrian Boult Cup in London
  • 1974: Winner of the Nikolai Malko conducting competition in Copenhagen
  • 1975: Second prize at the 1st International Ernest Ansermet Competition in Geneva
  • 1976: Leonard Bernstein Fellowship and Koussevitzky Music Foundation Conductor's Award in Tanglewood / Massachusetts

Works (selection)

Universal Edition :

  • Moksha for string orchestra (2001)

Sikorski Music Publishers :

  • Piano Trio No. 2 (2006)
  • Evolution symphony for baritone, 2 children's voices, choir and orchestra (2009)
  • The Leonardo Bridge . Singspiel in 3 acts (2009)
  • Mahler-Lieder for baritone and orchestra (2010)
  • Stadium Fanfares for mixed choir and orchestra (2010)
  • La Canzone di Leonardo for baritone and piano (2010)
  • The Leonardo Bridge: Overture for Orchestra (2011)

Discography (selection)

literature

  • Daniel Nazareth and the MDR Symphony Orchestra 1992 to 1996 . In: Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth (eds.): Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The history of the symphony orchestra . Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-930550-09-1 , pp. 149-154.
  • Nazareth, Daniel. In: Brockhaus-Riemann Musiklexikon. CD-Rom, Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89853-438-3 , p. 13719.
  • Walter Habel (ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . XLII. Edition (2003/04), Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2003, ISBN 3-7950-2036-0 , p. 1005.
  • 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. 554.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ex-MDR chief conductor Daniel Nazareth dead . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , June 24, 2014, p. 10.
  2. ↑ Edwin Baumgartner : The great teacher . In: Wiener Zeitung , No. 2, January 3, 2003, p. 10.
  3. ↑ Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth (ed.): Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The history of the symphony orchestra . Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-930550-09-1 , p. 188.
  4. ↑ Three new chief conductors for MDR orchestra . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 18, 1996, p. 21.
  5. ↑ Tosca 2000 Stadio Olimpico , archiviostorico.operaroma.it, accessed on January 3, 2018.
  6. ↑ The history of the Bregenz Festival: The online archive from 1946 to the present , chronik.bregenzerfestspiele.net, accessed on November 3, 2018.
  7. ↑ Works by Daniel Nazareth , universaledition.com, November 3, 2018.
  8. ↑ List of works: Nazareth, Daniel , sikorski.de, accessed on November 3, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Nazareth, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor and composer of Indian origin
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bombay
DATE OF DEATH 19th June 2014
Place of death Vienna