Georg Ludwig Jochum

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Georg Ludwig Jochum (born December 10, 1909 in Babenhausen , † November 1, 1970 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; sometimes also written Georg-Ludwig Jochum ) was a German conductor and brother of Otto and the better-known Eugene , with whom he established his ties to Anton Bruckner's music shared.

Life

The son of a Catholic teacher, organist, choir regent and director of the orchestra and theater association studied at the Leopold Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg and at the State Academy of Music in Munich with Joseph Pembaur , Siegmund von Hausegger and Joseph Haas . As early as 1932, at the age of 23, he was appointed music director of the city of Münster , where he appeared in the Städtischen-Lortzing-Theater and directed the Münster Symphony Orchestra . In 1934 he moved to Frankfurt a. M., where he conducted the opera and museum concerts. In 1937 he became the municipal music director of Plauen and musical director of the Plauen city ​​theater . On May 1, 1937, at his request, he was admitted to the NSDAP ( membership number 5,794,680), but in January 1941 he was canceled due to failure to pay contributions.

From 1940 to 1945 he was general music director in Linz and opera conductor at the city ​​theater . He directed the Municipal Symphony Orchestra , which he from 1943 in Hitler's order to "Reichs-Bruckner Orchestra" reshaped the Greater German Radio and with whom he made his debut in April 1944 during a concert Hitler's birthday. With this orchestra he then also organized the Bruckner Festival in St. Florian .

After the war he was briefly on the “black lists” of the occupying powers. In 1946 he became general music director of the Duisburger Sinfoniker for life , with whom he performed in the Mercatorhalle until he retired in 1968 and which he formed into a brilliant ensemble with a high profile. At the Duisburg Theater he performed with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and was director of the Duisburg Conservatory until 1958.

From 1948–50 he also conducted the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra , and in the early 1950s he also directed the RIAS Symphony Orchestra in Berlin; Guest appearances have taken him through Europe, Japan and South America.

literature

  • Stefan Jaeger (ed.): The conductors' book of Atlantis. An encyclopedia. Atlantis, Zurich 1986, p. 182, ISBN 3-254-00106-0 .
  • Hanns Kreczi: The Bruckner-Stift St. Florian and the Linzer Reichs-Bruckner-Orchester (1942–1945) . Anton Bruckner Documents and Studies. Academic printing and Publishing house, Graz 1986, ISBN 3-201-01319-6 .
  • Brockhaus-Riemann music lexicon . Edited by Carl Dahlhaus, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht. Atlantis and Schott, Zurich Mainz 1995, Volume 2, p. 261, ISBN 3-254-08397-0
  • Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945 . Kiel 2004, p. 3425f. (CD-ROM dictionary).

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ^ Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 . Kiel 2004, p. 3425. (CD-ROM lexicon)
personal data
SURNAME Jochum, Georg Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jochum, Georg-Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Babenhausen (Swabia)
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1970
Place of death Mülheim an der Ruhr