Günther Schlund

Günther Schlund (born July 2, 1928 in Schwerin ; † November 2, 2004 in Egliswil ) was a German-Swiss horn player . He came from a family of doctors and musicians.

biography

After studying at the music academies in Schwerin and Munich, Schlund first worked as principal horn in the Winterthur City Orchestra (now the Winterthur Music College ) under Hermann Scherchen . At the beginning of the 1950s he moved to the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich , also as a solo horn player, and held this position for four decades until his retirement in 1993. As a solo horn player he also worked for many years in the Lucerne Festival Orchestra . He also practiced an intensive chamber music activity.

Schlund was not only an instrumentalist, but also a music teacher. During his time at the Tonhalle, he held a professorship for horn at the Zurich Conservatory (later Zurich University of Music and Theater, today Zurich University of the Arts ) and trained several well-known musicians. His students include the former Tonhalle horn players Matthias Kofmehl and Jakob Hefti . as well as the current Tonhalle horn player Karl Fässler.

Günther Schlund was married and had a son. He lived in Zurich-Wollishofen , Uetikon am See and Egliswil.

Discography

• The work of Johann Sebastian Bach: Series K. Instrumental Concerts. In: Deezer
• Johann Sebastian Bach: 6 Brandenburg concerts, Rudolf Baumgartner / Festival Strings Lucerne , archive production, 1960
• Joseph Haydn, Michael Haydn: Cheery Serenade, Chamber Music Ensemble Zurich , Ex Libris, 1969
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento No. 15 (14) “Second Lodronian Night Music”, KV 271H; 287; 271b, Zurich Chamber Music Ensemble , 1969
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni - wind arrangement by Josef Triebensee (1772–1846), Zurich wind octet, ex libris, 1984
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Septet in E flat major, op.20 , Zurich Chamber Music Ensemble, Ex Libris
• Franz Schubert: Octet in F major, op. 166 , Zurich Chamber Music Ensemble, Ex Libris
• Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95 "From the New World" , Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Rudolf Kempe, Ex Libris, 1971

Web links

• Günther Schlund at Discogs (English)
• Jakob Hefti at Wikipedia
• Matthias Kofmehl at Wikipedia
• Biography of Matthias Kofmehl
• Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Karl Fässler
• Karl Fässler's biography
• Aargau Symphony Orchestra, Hans-Ulrich Wopmann
• Mark Gebhart at ArtistTrove
• Arion Quintet, Lorenz Raths
• Urs Länzlinger , Police Music Graubünden

Literature, newspaper articles and archive materials

• Hans Martin Ulbrich: "Your paws were great ...". Musician anecdotes and quotes. With a foreword by Bernard Haitink . Orell Füssli, Zurich 2005, ISBN 978-3-280-06063-6 .
• Heinrich Aerni, Felix Michel: «Zurich Theater Crisis» - A scandal with considerable consequences. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 15, 2012.
• Zurich Chamber Octet in Recital For Pro Musica Society. In: The Montreal Gazette. February 26, 1968.
• From: Stadtarchiv Zurich VII. 151, archive of the Tonhalle Society Zurich 1868–2005 .
• Walter Baer: Concerto for 6 wind instruments and 2 orchestras .
• Zurich Central Library, Music Department: Willy Hess estate directory (1906–1997) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Our conductor - Matthias Kofmehl. In: Website of the mixed choir Otelfingen
2. ^ Hefti Jakob (September 12, 1947). Biography. ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2016 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. In: Musinfo.  
3. ^ Tonhalle Society Zurich: Fässler, Karl. In: Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich, July 30, 2013, accessed October 4, 2016 .