Erwin Milzkott

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Erwin Milzkott, around 1954

Erwin Milzkott (born June 1, 1913 in Hagen (Westphalia), † July 2, 1986 in Berlin ) was a German musician.

Life

Erwin Milzkott grew up in the merchant family of Wilhelm and Elise Milzkott in Hagen with his sister Grete. He was considered a musical child prodigy, and in 1925 he played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Hagen Symphony Orchestra.

From 1930 to 1934 he studied flute, piano and harpsichord at the University of Music in Cologne . He had his first orchestral engagements in Bremen , Hanover and Lübeck . 1936–1938 he was solo flutist at the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig .

Between 1938 and 1942 he was a member of the Berlin Philharmonic and made concert tours to Paris, Madrid and Lisbon. Because of his refusal to join the SS music corps , he was sent to pioneer units on the Eastern Front in 1942. 1945–1948 he played again with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sergiu Celibidache . From 1949 he had an engagement with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra as a solo flutist. In 1950 he founded the wind quintet of the Berliner Rundfunk . In 1950 he was appointed chamber virtuoso . In 1950 he took up the first professorship for flute at the newly founded German University of Music in East Berlin . Among his students was Eberhard Grünenthal, who later became professor for flute in Rostock . At the German University of Music, his sister Grete Herwig, b. Milzkott, who has also been professor of piano since 1950.

As a soloist he made music under conductors such as Hermann Abendroth , whom he had met while studying in Cologne, Sergiu Celibidache , Franz Konwitschny , Helmut Koch , Antal Doráti and Robert Stolz . As a companion he worked with the violinist Max Michailow and the cellist Paul Tortelier as well as the singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Anny Schlemm and Anna Moffo .

Erwin Milzkott's grave in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

The construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 abruptly ended the activities of the musician, who lived in West Berlin , as an orchestral and chamber musician and as a university professor in East Berlin. Erwin Milzkott taught flutists and saxophonists privately, including jazz, until 1980.

Erwin Milzkott died on July 2, 1986 at the age of 73 in Berlin. His grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 18-AG).

Recordings

In the late 1960s he played the harpsichord continuo with Antal Doráti in the complete recording of the 101 Haydn symphonies in Marl for Decca . To today played even by radio stations recordings of Erwin Milzkott include the Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in D Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , K. 136 in 1958, by Johann Sebastian Bach , the Concerto for Flute, Violin, Harpsichord and Strings in A minor BWV 1044 (Triple Concerto), by Georg Philipp Telemann the Triple Concerto for flute, oboe d'amore, viola d'amore, strings and basso continuo in E major , the recording of Georg Friedrich Handel's Messiah in German under Helmut Koch, for Erwin Milzkott played the continuo.

Recordings by Erwin Milzkott with works written for him by contemporary composers such as Max Butting , Fidelio F. Finke and Rudolf Wagner-Régeny can be found on editions of the German Music Council.

Web links

Commons : Erwin Milzkott  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Orchestral Principal Flutists . June 2018. Retrieved January 28, 2019
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 491.
  3. Music in Germany 1950-2000 Library of Stanford University . Retrieved February 28, 2019