Günter Blumhagen

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Günter Blumhagen (* 1930 ; † 1996 ) was an orchestra and choir conductor and professor at the music academies in Weimar and Leipzig .

Blumhagen studied at the "Carl Maria von Weber" University of Music in Dresden . His first engagement took him to the Dresden State Opera in 1952 , after which he was first conductor at the Schwerin State Theater and conductor at the Karl-Marx-Stadt Municipal Theaters . This was followed by his first chief conductor position from 1965 to 1967 at the IG Wismut orchestra in Karl-Marx-Stadt, from 1967 to 1982 he was chief conductor of the Jena Philharmonic . From 1982 to 1987 he was again chief conductor of the orchestra of IG Wismut and from 1994 to 1996 chief conductor of the West Saxon Philharmonic .

During his engagement in Jena, he founded and directed several choirs that still exist today: In 1968 he founded the Jena Madrigal Circle as a lover's choir to cultivate madrigal and motet art , followed by the Jena Philharmonic Choir in 1970. The founding of the boys' choir of the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra in 1976 also goes back to his initiative. From 1974 on he directed the United Male Choirs Apolda.

Blumhagen taught at the Liszt School of Music Weimar and then at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig , first as a lecturer and later as a professor of conducting, while at the same time leading the university orchestra in Leipzig. For several semesters he also taught as a visiting professor at the Freiburg University of Music .

In 1975 he conducted a recording of Graham Whettam's symphony "contra timore" with the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra .

His son is the sculptor Michael Blumhagen .

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  1. ↑ 1st Usedom Music Festival, concert guide, 1994
personal data
SURNAME Blumhagen, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orchestra and choir director, musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1930
DATE OF DEATH 1996