Georg Roth (conductor)

Georg Roth (born November 1, 1919 , † June 22, 2008 ) was a German conductor and music writer.

biography

Georg Roth studied piano from 1935 to 1940 in Weimar with Alfred Hoehn and later in Kronberg im Taunus , Hoehn's residence. He was unable to pursue a career as a concert pianist due to an injury to his left hand. He studied orchestral conducting in Stuttgart and after the war he worked as Kapellmeister at the theater in Wismar and later as director of the Stralsund theater . Even before the political change, he left the GDR at the end of the 1980s and settled in Tremsbüttel (Schleswig-Holstein).

After Alfred Hoehn's death, Roth clearly described his method down to the smallest detail and thus recorded the practice method of one of the most important German pianists of the first half of the 20th century for posterity. This is all the more important as Hoehn saw his technology and the ways to do it as a secret that was not intended for the public. Roth enjoyed Hoehn's special trust and was allowed to listen when Hoehn was working on the piano. In this way he was able to observe details that other students in class could not be conveyed with such clarity.

Works (selection)

• Methodology of virtuoso piano playing. Alfred Hoehn's method. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1949. 2nd edition 1953. A substantially expanded version under the same title was published in 1995 by Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven. ISBN 3-7959-0683-0 .
• The way to Belcanto. Handouts and instructions for practice. Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1993, ISBN 3-7959-0625-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Roth: Methodology of the virtuoso piano playing. Alfred Hoehn's method. F. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1995, p. 87.
2. ↑ http://www.giselasott.de/