Gerhard Pflüger

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Gerhard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger (born April 9, 1907 in Dresden ; † October 24, 1991 in Weimar ) was a German conductor .

Life

Pflüger attended the community school and a grammar school in Dresden from 1913 to 1924. He then studied with Kurt Striegler and Fritz Busch at the orchestral school of the Saxon State Orchestra in Dresden until 1927 . From 1927 to 1930 he was solo repetitor, Kapellmeister and choir conductor in Tilsit, East Prussia . From 1930 to 1932 he was first Kapellmeister in Stralsund and until 1935 in Gotha . From 1935 to 1938 he worked as musical director in Nordhausen . Until 1940 he was first conductor in Altenburg and then in Meiningen . In 1940 he joined the NSDAP .

From 1946 he was a member of the SED . From 1948 to 1955 he was general music director and artistic director at the Rostock Municipal Theaters . He also led the conducting class at the Rostock University of Music . From 1949 to 1957 he worked as permanent conductor with the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and from 1957 to 1973 with the Staatskapelle Weimar . In addition, since 1962 he was professor and head of the conducting class at the Liszt School of Music Weimar .

In 1972 he was awarded the GDR Art Prize.

literature

  • Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke, Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Edition 2, Böhlau, Weimar 1993, ISBN 3-7400-0807-5 , p. 351.
  • Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945 . CD-ROM Lexicon, Kiel 2004, p. 5244.
  • Bernd Meyer-Rähnitz, Frank Oehme, Joachim Schütte (eds.): The eternal friend. - From Lied der Zeit to VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin. A company discography of shellac records from AMIGA, ETERNA and LIED DER ZEIT, as well as REGINA and RADIOPHON . albis-international, Dresden-Ústí 2006, ISBN 80-86971-10-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . Berlin historica, Berlin 2009. ISBN 3-923137-00-1 , p. 471.
  2. ↑ Winner of the GDR Art Prize 1972 , In: Neues Deutschland , June 7, 1972, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Pflüger, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pflüger, Gerhard Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1991
Place of death Weimar