Hans-Christian Bartel

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Hans-Christian Bartel (born November 27, 1932 in Altenburg ; † December 27, 2014 in Leipzig ) was a German violist and composer .

Life

Bartel was the son of a teacher. He got his first violin lessons at the age of six. After graduating from high school, he studied violin and viola with Gerhard Bosse and composition with Ottmar Gerster at the Leipzig Music Academy from 1951 to 1956 . In 1954 he switched from violin to viola. He received further impulses in piano from Manfred Reinelt and music history from Ernst Hermann Meyer .

From 1956 to 1958 he was a lecturer in composition, music theory , form theory and ear training at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Zwickau . From 1958 to 1996 he was a member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra and its solo violist from 1959. In 1970 he co-founded and until 1978 a member of the group New Music Hanns Eisler of the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Leipzig .

Bartel worked as a composer a. a. with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt , Rafael Kubelík , Kurt Masur and Rolf Reuter . His concerto for small orchestra and solo viola was premiered in 1963 by the Gewandhausorchester under Václav Neumann in the Leipzig Gewandhaus. In 1967 the "Concerto for Orchestra" premiered. In 2003 the orchestral version of his piano piece "David und Goliath" was premiered under Herbert Blomstedt, who also launched the violin concerto with Thomas Zehetmair as a soloist.

In 1963/64 and 1964/65 he received the Mendelssohn scholarship .

Works (selection)

  • String Quartet (1953)
  • Variations (1953/93)
  • String Trio (1954/97)
  • Quartet (1955/97/02)
  • Concerto for small orchestra and solo viola (1963)
  • Concerto for orchestra (1967)
  • Music for violoncello and piano (1988)
  • Always Bach For A Violin (1996)
  • Sonatina (1998)
  • "David and Goliath" Scenes for Orchestra (2000)
  • "Laudato si, mi Signore" for mixed choir a cappella (2000)
  • Concert piece (2001)
  • The Sensible Tiger - piano piece (2005)
  • Eight songs for baritone and small orchestra (2002/2005)
  • Concerto for violin and orchestra (2008)
  • Vocal symphony "Lieder vom Menschen" for baritone, choir and orchestra (2012)

Discography

  • Chamber music and songs (AM 1997)
  • The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra plays works by Hans-Christian Bartel (ITM 1998)
  • Songs of Man - Vocal Symphony (transport music 2015)

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. 266.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burkhard Glaetzner , Reiner Kontressowitz (ed.): Group New Music “Hanns Eisler” 1970–1990. Game horizons . Leipzig 1990, p. 38.
personal data
SURNAME Bartel, Hans-Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and violist
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2014
Place of death Leipzig