Ewald Körner
Ewald Körner (born January 20, 1926 in Bernau , Neudek district , Czechoslovakia ; † September 11, 2010 in Bern ) was a Czechoslovak-German- Swiss clarinetist and conductor .
Life
Körner was born in the Sudetenland and studied piano and clarinet at the German Academy of Music in Prague and conducting with Joseph Keilberth . After military service, he was clarinetist at the Magdeburg State Theater from 1946 to 1948 . From 1948 to 1950 he studied conducting in Hanover . From 1951 to 1960 he was solo repetiteur and later second Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Braunschweig . In 1956 he founded the Jeunesses Musicales Orchestra in Braunschweig. He came to Bern as an operetta conductor in 1960 and worked as the first conductor at the city theater from 1963 to 1991 . During this time he conducted more than 103 premieres; u. a. 1991 the premiere of The Judge by François Pantillon . Körner was a permanent guest conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic . For many years he also directed the Lausanne International Opera Studio and the conducting course at the Bern University of Music . His students include Ludwig Wicki , Christian Henking and Kaspar Zehnder .
Awards
- 1984: Honorary doctorate from the University of Bern
- 1992: Art Prize of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft
literature
- Ingrid Bigler-Marschall: Ewald Körner . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1022.
Individual evidence
- ^ Sudetenland. Volume 34 (1992), p. 145.
- ↑ Ewald Körner has died. In: Berner Zeitung . Updated September 13, 2010, accessed January 6, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Körner, Ewald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak-German-Swiss clarinetist and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bernau |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 2010 |
| Place of death | Bern |