Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (born May 28, 1925 in Berlin ; † May 18, 2012 in Berg ) was a German singer ( baritone ), conductor , painter , music writer and reciter . Fischer-Dieskau is one of the most important song and opera singers of the 20th century. With over 400 records, he is the singer whose interpretations most of the recordings should even exist on sound carriers.
Life
His grandfather was the pastor and hymnologist Albert Fischer . The parents - the father a classical philologist, the mother a teacher - encouraged the son's talent by enabling him to study singing at the age of 16, first with Georg A. Walter , then from 1942 with Hermann Weißenborn at the Berlin Music Academy . His brother was the church musician Klaus Fischer-Dieskau .
Fischer-Dieskau was drafted into the Wehrmacht and fell into American captivity in Italy , during which he continued his vocal studies as an autodidact . He gave his first concerts in the American prison camp in Italy. After returning home from captivity , he made his debut in Brahms' German Requiem in 1947 at a performance in Badenweiler , after the originally planned baritone soloist was unable to perform due to illness.
Fischer-Dieskau's actual career began in January 1948, when he - still a student with Hermann Weissenborn - sang Schubert's Winterreise for the first time for RIAS . In the same year he was engaged at the Städtische Oper Berlin , where he played the Marquis Posa in Don Carlos and Wolfram in Tannhäuser . The following year the first record took place: Four serious chants by Brahms . In the same year he made guest appearances on the opera stages in Munich and Vienna . Another station was in 1951 the rendition of the songs of a traveling journeyman by Gustav Mahler at the Salzburg Festival under the direction of Wilhelm Furtwängler . In the same year Fischer-Dieskau made his festival debut in Edinburgh with the Brahms songs. In 1952 he went on tour in the USA for the first time, two years later he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Wolfram im Tannhäuser . On May 30, 1962, Fischer-Dieskau took part in the inauguration of the new Coventry Cathedral at the world premiere of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem . He sang alongside the British tenor Peter Pears . Fischer-Dieskau is also considered a patron of the music of the 20th century, for example by Hans Werner Henze and Aribert Reimann . Fischer-Dieskau's longstanding and most important song accompanist on the piano was Gerald Moore , with whom he recorded several times Schubert's song cycle Winterreise . He also gave many concerts with Wolfgang Sawallisch at the piano and recorded several records with him.
His main stations were then appearances at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Vienna State Opera , the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and at the Royal Opera House in London. His repertoire comprised around three thousand songs by around a hundred different composers.
Since 1983 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin. He had been a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin since 1956 , of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1984 and of the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg since 1991 . On December 31, 1992, he ended his active career as a singer in Munich with a New Year's Eve gala, the last piece of which was the final fugue Tutto nel mondo è burla from Verdi's Falstaff .
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau died just ten days before his 87th birthday on May 18, 2012 in his house in Berg am Starnberger See (Himbselweg 16), where he had lived alternately with a villa in Berlin-Westend . The burial took place on May 25, 2012 in the closest family circle at the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin-Westend. The final resting place of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is dedicated to the State of Berlin as an honorary grave . Since Fischer-Dieskau had been an honorary citizen of Berlin since 2000 , the dedication - in contrast to the large majority of Berlin's honorary graves - is not limited in time.
- Private
In 1949 Fischer-Dieskau married the cellist Irmgard Poppen for the first time . Three children come from this connection who are also artistically active: the set designer Mathias Fischer-Dieskau (* 1951), the conductor Martin Fischer-Dieskau (* 1954) and the cellist Manuel Fischer-Dieskau (* 1963). Irmgard Poppen died giving birth to their son Manuel. This was followed (1965-1967) by a marriage between Fischer-Dieskau and the actress Ruth Leuwerik , then a third marriage (1968-1975) with Kristina Pugell, the daughter of an American singing teacher. From 1977 until his death in 2012 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was married to the singer Julia Varady for the fourth time .
His heirs sold his house in Berlin, the Villa Buchthal in Westend (Lindenallee 22).
reception
After his death, his colleague René Kollo praised Fischer-Dieskau as "vocally simply predestined for the song" and in essence as "very charming, very helpful, very friendly". Brigitte Fassbaender said that the singer was "a highly sensitive person of great spiritual clarity". “For everyone who worked with him, he was always to a great extent a role model. He was just a natural, great authority. "
Honors
- 1958: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 1963: Mozart Medal from the Mozart Community in Vienna
- 1966: Grammy
- 1974: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1975: Léonie Sonning Music Prize
- 1980: Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
- 1984: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 1984: Pour le mérite for science and the arts
- 1986: Star for the Great Federal Cross of Merit
- 1987: Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau
- 1988: Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
- 1993: Ernst Reuter badge
- 1994: Wilhelm Pitz Prize, Bayreuth
- 1998: Brahms Prize from the Brahms Society Schleswig-Holstein
- 2000: Honorary citizen of Berlin
- 2001: Frankfurt Music Prize
- 2002: Praemium Imperiale for his life's work
- 2003: Name giver for the asteroid (42482) Fischer-Dieskau
- 2005: Polar Music Prize , comparable to a Nobel Prize in Music
- 2006: Berlin Bear (BZ Culture Prize)
- 2007: Music Prize of the City of Duisburg
- 2008: Cultural Prize of Honor from the City of Munich
- 2008: Hugo Wolf Medal
- 2009: Golden Goethe Medal from the Goethe Society Weimar
- several awards for his recordings, including two Grammys
- Appointment as chamber singer in Munich and Berlin
- Honorary doctorates from the universities of Oxford , Yale , Sorbonne and Heidelberg .
Works
Fonts:
- On the trail of the Schubert songs. Becoming, essence, effect. Brockhaus, Wiesbaden 1971, ISBN 3-7653-0244-9 .
- Wagner and Nietzsche: the mystagogue and its apostate. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-423-01429-6 .
- Robert Schumann: Word and Music. The vocal work. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-421-06068-1 .
- Aftertaste. Views and memories. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-421-06368-0 .
- When music is food for love. The fate of artists in the 19th century. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-421-06571-3 .
- Far away the Faun's lament. Claude Debussy and his world. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-421-06651-5 .
- Schubert and his songs. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-421-05051-1 (paperback edition: Franz Schubert and his songs. Insel, Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-458-34219-2 ).
- Carl Friedrich Zelter and the Berlin musical life of his time. A biography. Nicolai, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87584-652-4 .
- The world of song. Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01638-2 .
- Time of a lifetime. On the trail search. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-421-05368-5 .
- Music in conversation. Forays through the classical period with Eleonore Büning. Propylaea, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-549-07178-7 .
- Goethe as director. Theater passions in classical Weimar. dtv, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-423-24581-6 .
- Johannes Brahms. Life and songs. List, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-548-60828-0 .
- Jupiter and me. Encounters with Furtwängler. Berlin Univ. Press, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940432-66-7 .
- The German piano song. Berlin University Press, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86280-021-6 .
As editor:
- Texts of German songs. dtv, Munich 1968, ISBN 978-3-423-30095-7 .
- In the ear of the night. Poems by Eduard Mörike. Settings by Hugo Wolf. A reader. Hanser, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-446-19524-6 .
- On the wings of song. The hundred most beautiful music poems. Structure, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-351-03246-3 .
Audio samples
If your mother
Now I can see why such dark flames
Often I think they just went out
In this weather, in this effervescence
literature
- Jörg Demus , Karla Höcker , Wolf-Eberhard von Lewinski , Werner Oehlmann : Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin 1966
- Wolf-Eberhard von Lewinski: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Interviews - facts - opinions. Piper, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-492-18266-6 .
- Monika Wolf: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Directory of sound recordings . Schneider, Tutzing 2000, ISBN 3-7952-0999-4 .
- Oswald Panagl: Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
- Hans A. Neunzig: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - A life in pictures. Henschel, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89487-499-6 .
- Wolfgang Gratzer (Ed.). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. On his development as a singer and music thinker (sound-talking 7). Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-7930-9691-7 .
- Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich. In: KJ Kutsch, L. Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon , Volume 2, KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 , pp. 1478-1479
- Homage to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. With contributions by Daniel Barenboim, Brigitte Fassbaender, Peter Gülke, Thomas Hampson, Hartmut Höll, Stephan Mösch, Aribert Reimann, Christine Schäfer and Christian Thielemann, in: Opernwelt 53 (2012), issue 7, ISSN 0030-3690
Web links
- Works by and about Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the German Digital Library
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Monika Wolf: Page to Fischer-Dieskau
- items
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: “I lived in vain” Interview on the subject of 400 years of opera, published in crescendo , May 15, 2007
- Christine Lemke-Matwey : Alone on the wide hall tagesspiegel.de, May 19, 2012
- Gerhard Rohde: The genius of high declamation faz.net, May 18, 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ Marquis Who's Who in the World , 2004
- ↑ Nadine Zeller: Career began in Badenweiler. Fischer-Dieskau's debut . In: Badische Zeitung . May 25, 2012 (printed edition). Retrieved May 30, 2012.
- ↑ Le grand baryton allemand Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau est mort ; Obituary on lemonde.fr of May 18, 2012; Retrieved May 18, 2012.
- ^ " Centenary ": Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is dead ; Obituary on spiegel.de from May 18, 2012; Retrieved May 18, 2012.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2011 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.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 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.
- ^ Kai Luehrs-Kaiser : Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - death of a century-longing man. In: The world . May 18, 2012. Accessed November 9, 2019. Manuel Brug: The legacy of the greatest song singer of all time. In: The world . August 13, 2015. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- ^ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was quietly buried in the forest cemetery. In: BZ May 30, 2012. Accessed November 9, 2019.
- ↑ Senate Department for Environment, Transport and Climate Protection: Honorary Graves of the State of Berlin (as of November 2018) (PDF, 413 kB), p. 21. Accessed on November 9, 2019. Recognition and further preservation of graves as honorary graves of the State of Berlin (PDF , 205 kB). Berlin House of Representatives, printed matter 17/3105 of July 13, 2016, p. 2. Accessed on November 9, 2019.
- ↑ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - death of a century-old man ; Obituary. In: DIE WELT of May 18, 2012. Accessed July 1, 2017
- ↑ Exhibition cat. "A crystal, hidden in a new objectivity: the discovery and renovation of Haus Buchthal in Berlin", AEDES Gallery, Berlin 2016
- ↑ Anke Schäfer: “Vocally simply predestined for the song”: René Kollo on the death of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau ; Interview on Deutschlandradio Kultur, broadcast Conclusion on May 18, 2012.
- ↑ Ulrike Timm: “A clever intellectual who was not satisfied with the opera stage”: fellow singer Brigitte Fassbaender on the death of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau ; Interview on Deutschlandradio Kultur, Radiofeuilleton, May 18, 2012.
- ^ Inscription Deutschordenshof, Singerstraße: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau 1963 (accessed June 10, 2014).
- ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 47303
- ^ Daniel Lewis: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 1925–2012: Lyrical and Powerful Baritone, and the Master of the Art Song ; Obituary for Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau on nytimes.com on May 18, 2012; Retrieved May 18, 2012.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer (baritone), conductor, painter, music writer and reciter |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1925 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 2012 |
Place of death | mountain |