Hans Zanotelli
Hans Zanotelli (born August 23, 1927 in Cronenberg ; † July 12, 1993 in Stuttgart ) was a German conductor .
life and work
Hans Zanotelli learned to play the violin and piano as a child and was admitted to study music in Cologne at the age of fourteen. His conducting teacher was Hans Swarowsky .
Zanotelli began his career as a répétiteur at the Remscheid - Solingen theaters . At the age of 24 he became Kapellmeister in Düsseldorf , after which he moved to the houses in Bonn and Hamburg . In 1957 he was appointed general music director to Darmstadt . At the age of 30 he was one of the youngest GMDs in Germany. In 1963 he went to Augsburg as chief conductor and deputy director . In 1971 Zanotelli was appointed chief conductor of the Stuttgart Philharmonic (= GMD of the state capital Stuttgart). In addition, he conducted at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and at other theaters and festivals.
As a guest, Zanotelli also conducted concerts by the Lower Saxony Symphony Orchestra in Hanover in 1966 and 1967 . In 1977 Zanotelli was appointed professor and in 1984 he received the Federal Cross of Merit . From 1985 he was general music director of the state capital Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein and thus responsible for the Kiel Opera and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the city of Kiel.
Zanotelli had to end his career in 1987 for health reasons. He died in Stuttgart in 1993 and is buried in Wuppertal-Cronenberg.
Honor
In Wuppertal-Cronenberg a street was named after Hans Zanotelli.
Trivia
The producer Alfred Scholz published countless sound recordings with an orchestra he named the South German Philharmonic Orchestra, including many with fictional conductor names, but also those with the name of the conductor Zanotelli. It is sometimes doubted whether the recordings in question by the Süddeutsche Philharmonie were actually conducted by Zanotelli. Secured record recording: Ludwig van Beethoven, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in G major op. 58 (Saphir, Intercord Classical Discotheque INT 120.933). Ernst Gröschel, piano; Philharmonic Orchestra Bamberg, conductor: Hans Zanotelli (© 1980).
Individual evidence
Web links
- Works by and about Hans Zanotelli in the catalog of the German National Library
Hans Zanotelli (1972–1985) | Wolf-Dieter Hauschild (1985–1991) | Carlos Kalmar (1991-1995) | Jörg-Peter Weigle (1995–2002) | Gabriel Feltz (2004–2013) | Dan Ettinger (since 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zanotelli, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cronenberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 1993 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |