Heinrich Keilholz
Heinrich Keilholz (born December 21, 1908 in Hanover , † April 21, 1981 in Salzburg ) was a German room acoustician and stage technician .
biography
Heinrich Keilholz studied telecommunications technology and electroacoustics in Hamburg and Berlin. He was then as a manager for the German Grammophon operates. Later he founded the engineering office for space u. Building acoustics, theater architecture and stage technology .
His breakthrough as a room acoustician came in Vienna, where he acoustically optimized the Vienna State Opera , the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Burgtheater . One of his early works as a room acoustician was the auditorium of the Great Festival Hall in Salzburg.
Other halls that he improved included a. the hall of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Tel-Aviv, the Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, the Hanover Opera House and the Alte Oper Frankfurt. The great hall of the Megaron in Athens with the organ by Klais was planned entirely by Keilholz, but was only built posthumously .
Allegedly, no world-class maestro entered a hall in the 1980s that had not been optimized by Keilholz.
literature
- Der Baumeister: Journal for Architecture, Planning, Environment, Volume 78. Callwey, Munich, 1981, p. 575.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keilholz, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German acoustician and stage technician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1981 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |