Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (conductor)

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (born September 27, 1903 in Wattenscheid ; † July 6, 1975 in Munich ) was a German conductor and university professor .

Life

After graduating from high school, Lessing studied at the Hüttner Conservatory in Dortmund , and at times also in Hagen . In 1921 he passed the examination to become a music teacher and began his stage career as a solo coach and course director in Dortmund. From 1924 to 1929 he worked as a solo repetitor and Kapellmeister in Duisburg , from 1929 to 1933 as 1st Kapellmeister at the State Theater of Danzig and from 1933 to 1935 in the same function at the Landestheater Coburg . From 1935 to 1937 he was musical director at the city theater in Plauen . In 1937 Lessing became general music director of the Baden-Baden Symphony and Spa Orchestra , which in 1946 became the Great Orchestra of Südwestfunk . He remained its chief conductor until 1948. In 1948 he went to Lübeck as musical director for opera and concerts and in 1956 took over the master class for conducting at the Munich University of Music and Theater . From 1963 to 1971 he was chief conductor of the Turkish State Symphony Orchestra ( Cumhurbaşkanlığı Senfoni Orkestrası ). Gotthold E. Lessing was married to Anna Lessing for the first time and had two children: Verena and Peter Lessing. As a conductor, Lessing devoted himself primarily to new music . He left very few audio files. On 21 January 1970 he was German President Gustav Heinemann , the Federal Cross of Merit awarded.

Compositions

  • an opera
  • Songs
  • Piano works (only as manuscript)

Fonts

  • Manual of the operatic repertoire . Danzig: West Prussian Publishing House 1934.
  • Manual of the Opera Repertoire , 2nd, expanded edition. London: Boosey & Hawkes 1952.

literature

  • Self-disclosure in Kürschner's German musicians calendar 1954 . Berlin: de Gruyter 1954.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Schott Music, accessed May 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ History 1900–1999. Philharmonie Baden-Baden, accessed on May 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Brockhaus Riemann Musiklexikon vol. 3, page 32 ff., (1998), ISBN 3-254-08398-9
  4. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Wattenscheid
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1975
Place of death Munich