Egon Morbitzer

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Egon Morbitzer (born February 6, 1927 in Nirklowitz near Olomouc ; † March 14, 1989 in Berlin ) was a German violinist.

Life

Morbitzer received his first, only sporadic lessons in Olomouc. From 1939 the family lived in Wiener Neustadt , at whose conservatory he now received regular violin lessons, which the then director Fritz Heindl gave him. In 1940 he made his debut there with Pierre Rode's A major violin concerto . In 1941 he moved to the Vienna Academy of Music , but was dissatisfied with the training there, so that in 1943 he came to the Thuringian State Conservatory in Erfurt , where he was taught by the renowned violin teacher Prof. Walter Hansmann (1875–1963). Shortly before the end of the war, Morbitzer was called up and wounded in April 1945. From May 1945 he was able to continue and finish his studies in Erfurt.

Among his fellow students in Erfurt was the pianist Dieter Zechlin , who accompanied him in 1946 to a rehearsal with the Staatskapelle Weimar , which was then directed by Hermann Abendroth , who immediately engaged Morbitzer as first concertmaster . In 1948 he also became a lecturer at the Weimar Academy of Music , which appointed him professor in 1949. At the age of 22, Morbitzer was the youngest professor in the GDR .

From 1951 until his death he was concertmaster of the Staatskapelle Berlin . In 1953 he also founded the string quartet of the German State Opera , which was funded by the GDR Ministry of Culture . Other members were Bernd Müller (2nd violin), Alfred Lipka ( viola ) and Karl-Heinz Schröter ( violoncello ). The quartet not only played classical literature, but was also committed to contemporary composers, especially Dmitri Shostakovich .

Through Dieter Zechlin, Morbitzer also met his wife, the composer Ruth Zechlin , in 1951, who dedicated four of her six string quartets to his ensemble.

Morbitzer was one of the most famous violinists in the GDR . He made frequent guest appearances abroad and made numerous records , both as a soloist and with his string quartet.

In 1975 he was made an honorary member of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra .

He died of cancer at the age of 62. After his death he also became an honorary member of the Staatskapelle.

family

Morbitzer was born with Christina Morbitzer. Bürgmann married, a daughter of the tenor Ferdinand Bürgmann (1904–1987), who made a name for himself in particular in Richard Wagner's operas . Their son Wolfgang Morbitzer (born February 7, 1965 in Berlin) has been the solo drummer of the North German Philharmonic Rostock since August 1988 .

Discography (selection)

literature

  • Ernst Krause , Egon Morbitzer. 25 years concertmaster in Berlin (1976), in: ders., Writing about music. Essays, reports, reviews , Berlin: Henschelverlag 1981, p. 99f. ( Digitized version )
  • Matthias Frede, cloakroom talk with Egon Morbitzer , in: Theater der Zeit , vol. 41 (1986), issue 8, pp. 48–50 ( digitized version )
  • Wolfgang Pintzka , From Siberia to the Synagogue. Memories from two worlds , Berlin 2002, pp. 298–301

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Egon Morbitzer on Ruth Zechlin, in: Ruth Zechlin, Situations, Reflections , ed. by Annelore and Jürgen Mainka, Berlin: Verlag Neue Musik 1986, p. 121f.
  2. ^ Staatskapelle Berlin, members
  3. ^ Wolfgang Morbitzer on the website of the Philharmonic Society Rostock e. V.
personal data
SURNAME Morbitzer, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Nirklowitz near Olomouc
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1989
Place of death Berlin