Gerd Seifert (musician)

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Gerd Seifert at the Horn Symposium in Trossingen 1980

Gerd Seifert (born October 17, 1931 in Hamburg ; † February 28, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German horn player.

Life

Gerd Seifert started playing the horn at the age of twelve . He learned from Albert Doescher in Hamburg. At the age of 15 he was already playing at the Hamburg State Opera . At that time he performed as a soloist with Richard Strauss' 1st Concerto .

At the age of 17 he became principal horn player with the Düsseldorf Municipal Orchestra . He worked here from 1949 to 1964. In 1956 he won first prize at the International Music Competition in Munich ( ARD ). He also taught at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf.

From 1964 to 1996 Seifert was principal horn player with the Berliner Philharmoniker . In 1969 he recorded Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's horn concertos with the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan. Since 1961, as a member of the orchestra of the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, he has played Siegfried's horn call over a hundred times .

From 1970 to 2003 Gerd Seifert taught at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic . After his retirement he played as principal horn in the orchestra of the Grand Liceo in Barcelona and as honorary solo horn in the Singapore Symphony.

As a member of the musical orchestra in Berlin , he played Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Webber's Cats . He played as principal horn player at the Liceu Theater in Barcelona from 2005 to 2006 .

Gerd Seifert died on February 28, 2019 in Berlin, the funeral service in his honor took place on March 15, 2019 at the Dahlem forest cemetery in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district of Berlin .

literature

  • Berliner Philharmoniker: Variations with Orchestra - 125 Years of the Berliner Philharmoniker , Volume 2, Biographies and Concerts, Verlag Henschel, May 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-568-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ pizzicato.lu , accessed on March 4, 2019
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Horn Concerts 1-4 (complete recording), Deutsche Grammophon Production (Universal Music) 1969, new edition 1986
  3. ↑ Gerd Seifert on Doksite , accessed on February 17, 2016
  4. ↑ Gerd Seifert on Wienerhorn Forum , accessed on February 17, 2016
  5. ↑ Obituaries at tagesspiegel.de
personal data
SURNAME Seifert, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German horn player
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 2019
Place of death Berlin