Georg Hanstedt

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Georg Hanstedt (2nd from left) as a member of the Kirmse Quartet (1949)

Georg Hanstedt (born October 9, 1904 in Gelsenkirchen , † March 25, 1975 in Leipzig ) was a German violinist . He was a long-time member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and appeared in various string quartets . In 1934 he was appointed to the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra .

Life

Georg Hanstedt was born in 1904 as the son of a police sergeant Georg Hanstedt and his wife Elisabeth, b. Wahnes, born in Gelsenkirchen in Westphalia . After graduating from high school in his hometown, he studied violin (with Walther Davisson and Hans Bassermann ), theory and composition theory (with Max Ludwig ) at the State Conservatory of Music in Leipzig from 1923 to 1928 . In addition, he was enrolled in humanities subjects at the University of Leipzig . Already during his music studies he took part in the Gewandhaus concerts.

In 1929 he became a member of the second violins of the Theater and Gewandhaus Orchestra under the Gewandhauskapellmeister Bruno Walter . In the course of the emergency decree of Reich Chancellor Heinrich Brüning , he was dismissed in November 1931. From October 1934 he was active in the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra under Hans Weisbach . In the same year he was appointed to the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra . In April 1937 he was reinstated in the Gewandhaus Orchestra, which was now directed by Hermann Abendroth , but was then drafted into the Wehrmacht in February 1943 . Until his release in Fürstenwalde in August 1945, he was a Soviet prisoner of war . He then continued his work in the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Herbert Albert , Franz Konwitschny , Václav Neumann and Kurt Masur until 1971 . Most recently he was a member of the 1st violins; he also occasionally played the mandolin .

Hanstedt was active as a chamber musician in a variety of ways: from 1928 to 1938 he played the second violin in the Genzel Quartet, in 1943 in the Schachtebeck String Quartet and from 1945 in the Kirmse Quartet . Later he was a member of the Ludwig Schuster Quartet .

His students included u. a. the Gewandhaus musician Konrad Lepetit .

From 1936 he was married to Irene Melzer, with whom he had two children.

literature

  • Hans-Rainer Jung: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0 , p. 222.
  • Hedwig and Erich Hermann Mueller von Asow (eds.): Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954 . 2nd edition of the German Musicians Lexicon, de Gruyter, Berlin 1954, column 440.

Web links

Commons : Georg Hanstedt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Hans-Rainer Jung: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0 , p. 222.
  2. ↑ a b c d Hedwig and Erich Hermann Mueller von Asow (ed.): Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954 . 2nd edition of the German Musicians Lexicon, de Gruyter, Berlin 1954, column 440.
  3. ^ Alfred Sous : The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. History, stories and anecdotes from then to now . Lienau, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87484-125-1 , p. 138.
  4. ^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 112.
  5. ^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 209.
  6. ^ Hansjürgen Schaefer : Berliner Festtage 1957. Music by Ottmar Gerster . Berliner Zeitung , October 11, 1957, vol. 13, issue 238, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Hanstedt, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1975
Place of death Leipzig