Gerhard Bosse
Gerhard Bosse (born January 23, 1922 in Wurzen ; † February 1, 2012 in Takatsuki , Japan ) was a German violinist and conductor .
Life
Gerhard Bosse was born in 1922 as the son of the military musician Oskar Bosse (1893–1979) and grew up in Greiz . At the age of six he received his first violin lessons from his father. From 1930 he was instructed by the concertmaster of the Reussische Hofkapelle. He went to Leipzig in 1936 and received lessons from Edgar Wollgandt . After graduating from high school in 1940, he studied violin with Walther Davisson at the Leipzig Conservatory . During his studies he was already employed as a substitute for the Gewandhaus Orchestra . In 1943 he was appointed to the Reichs-Bruckner-Orchester in Linz and played under conductors like Karl Böhm , Wilhelm Furtwängler , Carl Schuricht , Herbert von Karajan , Oswald Kabasta and Joseph Keilberth . He also studied singing at the Linz Conservatory.
From 1948 to 1951 he was concertmaster in the Small Radio Orchestra Weimar. In 1949 Bosse became professor at the Liszt School of Music Weimar and in 1951 first concertmaster of the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra under Hermann Abendroth . He also received a professorship at the Leipzig University of Music. From 1955 to 1987 Bosse was concert master of the Gewandhaus Orchestra under the conductors Franz Konwitschny , Václav Neumann and Kurt Masur . From 1955 to 1977 he was the first violinist of the Gewandhaus Quartet . In 1963, Bosse founded the Leipzig Gewandhaus Bach Orchestra , which he himself directed until 1987.
In 1980, Bosse founded the Kirishima International Music Festival in Japan. He was also guest conductor of the New Japan Philharmonic and visiting professor at Tokyo University of the Arts . In 2000 he became music director of the Kobe City Chamber Orchestra and two years later adviser to the New Japan Philharmonic.
Since 2000 he lived in Takatsuki with his third wife Michiko.
student
His large group of students includes a. Hans-Christian Bartel , Dietmar Hallmann and Karl Suske .
Honors, prizes and awards
- National Prize of the GDR for Art and Literature, III. Class in the collective Gewandhaus-Quartet (1962)
- Arthur Nikisch Prize (1972)
- Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1972)
- Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold (1974)
- City of Leipzig Art Prize (1980)
- National Prize of the GDR for Art and Literature, Second Class (1986)
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1998)
- Kobe City Cultural Award (2005, 2008)
- ExxonMobil Music Award (2008)
- Honorary member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra (2011)
literature
- Hans-Rainer Jung, Claudius Böhm: The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-936618-86-0 , p. 259.
- Steffen Lieberwirth : Gerhard Bosse. A life at the first desk. Edition Peters, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-369-00037-7 .
- Bosses, Gerhard. In: Brockhaus-Riemann Musiklexikon. CD-Rom, Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89853-438-3 , p. 1329.
Web links
- Biography of Gerhard Bosse (English) with Bach Cantatas
Individual evidence
- ↑ lvz-trauer.de ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Steffen Lieberwirth: Gerhard Bosse. A life at the first desk. Leipzig 1987, p. 8.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bosses, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violinist and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Spice up |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 2012 |
| Place of death | Takatsuki , Japan |