Dieter Rexroth

Dieter Rexroth (* 1941 in Dresden ) is a German musicologist and dramaturge .

Live and act

Dieter Rexroth studied composition , conducting , musicology, German and philosophy at the Universities of Cologne , Vienna and Bonn . In 1969 he was in Bonn with a thesis on Arnold Schoenberg doctorate .

From 1974 to 1991 he was the founding director of the Hindemith Institute in Frankfurt am Main. From 1980 to 1994 he was also dramaturge at the Alte Oper Frankfurt am Main and co-founder of the “Frankfurter Feste”, of which he was artistic director from 1986 to 1994. In 1995/1996, as director of the Lower Austrian cultural scene for St. Pölten, he developed an artistic event concept.

From 1996 to 2006 he was director of the “Rundfunkorchester und Chöre GmbH” in the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin . In 2000 he brought the American conductor Kent Nagano to Berlin and became his dramaturgical advisor. In 2000 he also became the artistic director of the Young Euro Classic festival in Berlin and headed the Kassel Music Days from 2005 to 2015 . Since 2013 he has been artistic director of the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy University Competition, for which he conceptually focuses on promoting the prize winners, and chairman of the jury for composition.

Dieter Rexroth is the author and editor of publications on classical composers such as Ludwig van Beethoven , Anton Webern and Paul Hindemith as well as on contemporary composers such as Hans Werner Henze and Wolfgang Rihm .

Fonts

• Arnold Schönberg as theoretician of tonal harmony. Dissertation. University of Bonn 1969.
• Beethoven. Schott, Mainz a. a. 1982, ISBN 3-7957-2300-0 . Paperback edition: Goldmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-442-33019-X .
• Museum. 175 years of the Frankfurter Museums-Gesellschaft eV Frankfurter Museums-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main 1984.
• with Andres Briner , Giselher Schubert : Paul Hindemith. Life and work in pictures and text. Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-0204-6 .
  Italian: Paul Hindemith. Vita e opere. DeFerrari, Genoa 1995, ISBN 88-7172-033-4 .
• Beethoven's symphonies. A musical factory guide. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-44809-7 .

Editing:

• Trials and experiences. On Paul Hindemith's work in the twenties. Schott, Mainz 1978, ISBN 3-7957-0112-0 .
• Between the borders. On the aspect of the national in new music. Schott, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-7957-0113-9 .
• Paul Hindemith: Letters. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-596-22146-3 .
• Opus Anton Webern. Quadriga, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-88679-101-7 .
• The composer Wolfgang Rihm. Schott, Mainz a. a. 1985, ISBN 3-7957-2460-0 .
• The composer Hans Werner Henze. Schott, Mainz a. a. 1986, ISBN 3-7957-2354-X .

Web links

• Works by Dieter Rexroth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dieter Rexroth on the website of the Young Euro Classic festival
• Dieter Rexroth on the website of the Körber Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The history of the Festspielhaus ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at festspielhaus.at  
2. ↑ New surprises in a united Berlin ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on dso-berlin.de 
3. ↑ Manuel Brug: His poisoned farewell to Munich's opera. In: The world . July 30, 2013
4. ↑ Members of the jury 2013: Rexroth, Dr. Dieter on fmb-hochschulwettbewerb.de