Gustav check
Gustav Scheck (born October 22, 1901 in Munich , † April 19, 1984 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German flautist and from 1946 to 1964 rector of the Freiburg University of Music .
Life
Gustav Scheck studied in Freiburg a. a. Flute with Richard Röhler and musicology with Joseph Müller-Blattau , Wilibald Gurlitt and Hermann Erpf . In 1924 he became a flautist in the Freiburg Municipal Orchestra and then moved to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . Further stations were Kiel, Bremen and in 1928 the Königsberg radio under Hermann Scherchen . In 1929 he came to the Hamburg State Opera . In 1930 he founded the "Chamber Music Circle Scheck-Wenzinger" together with August Wenzinger . He made important contributions to the revival of baroque music through numerous concerts as well as recordings for radio and record . In the Nazi state , Scheck was a member of the Reich Chamber of Music despite the lack of proof of parentage . From 1934 to 1945 Scheck taught at the Berlin Music Academy , from 1942 as a professor.
After the Second World War, he co-founded the Freiburg University of Music with Wilibald Gurlitt and was its rector from 1946 to 1964. The internationally renowned soloist Scheck became the teacher of numerous flautists, including Hans-Martin Linde . Harald Genzmer , whom Scheck had called to Freiburg, wrote two flute concertos and two flute sonatas for Scheck. Scheck also includes the Sonata for Flute and Piano by Wolfgang Fortner , the 2nd Flute Sonata op.38 by Kurt Hessenberg and the Flute Sonata op.106 by Heinrich Kaspar Schmid (premiered in March 1939 by Gustav Scheck with the composer at the piano in Munich ). In 1961, Scheck accepted Hortense von Gelmini, who would later become conductor, only 14 years old .
Gustav Scheck's book The Flute and its Music , published in 1975, is still one of the standard works in literature on the flute.
His son Florian Scheck became a physics professor.
literature
- Friedrich Blume (Ed.): Music in the past and present . 1st edition, 1949-1986.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustav Scheck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information from the German Broadcasting Archive
Individual evidence
- ^ Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945. CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 9.094.
- ↑ Priv. HK Schmid Archive by Walter Homolka, Landau adIsar
- ↑ Correspondence archive of the Libertas Foundation per Veritatem, Horben
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Check, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German flautist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1984 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |