Rake de Roos
Harke de Roos (born December 24, 1942 in Hellevoetsluis ) is a Dutch conductor , pianist and music researcher.
life and work
After attending school in Goes and Rotterdam , de Roos studied concert conducting and solo piano at the music academy het muzieklyceum (today: Conservatorium van Amsterdam ) in Amsterdam . His professional career began from 1968 to 1971 as a solo coach at the opera studio of the Netherlands Opera Foundation Amsterdam and as director of the choir and orchestra of the Amsterdam Municipal University. In the following years de Roos took part in various courses for conductors, among others with Herbert von Karajan and Hans Swarowsky .
From 1971 to 1973 he worked as the deputy choir director at the Graz Opera , from 1973 to 1977 as a solo coach with conducting duties at the Opera in Cologne , from 1977 to 1982 as a solo coach at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , from 1982 to 1985 as Kapellmeister at the Landestheater Detmold and from 1992 to 1995 as general music director at the State Theater in Eisenach .
His research deals with the Viennese classical period , the focus of which is on the one hand the question of the controversial death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and on the other hand the questioning of Ludwig van Beethoven's tempo indications .
De Roos writes about his findings in the books Das Wunder Mozart and Der Andere Beethoven , which were published by Katharos Verlag in 2010. In the first, he advocates the thesis that Mozart was deliberately killed by incorrect medical treatment, and here he goes into political and personal levels that could explain the composer's murder. In particular, his examination of political aspects at the time of the Viennese Classicism in connection with Mozart's death is rather unusual and a largely neglected approach for music research.
Another thesis of the Dutchman is that Beethoven mostly distorted his work by means of encrypted metronome markings in order to present it to his surroundings as a puzzle. He assumes that no tempo specification was created due to a mistake by the composer, but that every number or every note value for the number is a deliberate deception and the puzzle can be resolved, which would result in more conclusive relations of the movements . Here, too, de Roos goes into political and personal backgrounds, including illuminating Beethoven's relationship with the inventor of the metronome, Johann Nepomuk Mälzel .
To illustrate this tempo, there was a recording of Beethoven's Second Symphony with the Vienna Symphony in 2010 and a performance of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and his violin concerto with the Vienna Chamber Philharmonic and the soloist Fanny Clamagirand during the Carinthian Summer , which de Roos directed and followed in 2014 let play the tempos that he feels are the right ones.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official website
- ↑ Katharos Publishing House
- ↑ DPA-Starline: Music: Conductor de Roos is on the trail of Beethoven's tempos. In: Focus Online . July 24, 2010, accessed October 14, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roos, Harke de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch conductor, pianist and music researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hellevoetsluis |