Heinrich Keller (musician)
Heinrich Keller (born August 25, 1918 in Griesheim , † August 23, 1990 in Hamburg ) was a German horn player and university professor.
Life
Heinrich Keller received piano lessons from Ernst Reifenrath in his youth - and violin lessons from his father, also Heinrich Keller . From April 1, 1932 to Easter 1936, he then studied at the Mainz University of Music, majoring in French horn with Alfred Leisering and Brechtel, and piano and violin as minor subjects.
In 1936 he was a trainee for horn at the Hessian State Theater in Darmstadt . In the years 1936 and 1937 he played in his summer holidays from May to August as 1st horn player in the Schlangenbad spa orchestra. From 1937 to 1939 he was first horn player at the Stadttheater Gießen . During the summer holidays there, he played the 1st horn player in the Bad Nauheim State Spa Orchestra.
When war broke out in 1939, Heinrich Keller joined the Air Force Music Corps as 1st horn player. In 1943, after the dissolution of all music corps, he became a military driver. After the end of the war in 1945 he became the first horn player at the Mannheim National Theater and lectured at the Mannheim University of Music .
From 1950 to September 1, 1979 Heinrich Keller was 1st principal horn in the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg a . a. under Joseph Keilberth , who made a lot of recordings with the orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Horst Stein . Keller gave u. a. Hermann Baumann private horn lessons. As he was also an excellent pianist who could play even inexperienced pieces from sight, he was happy to use this skill in his lessons.
From 1958 to 1961 he worked as a solo horn player at the Bayreuth Festival , where he a. a. played the Siegfriedruf under Hans Knappertsbusch , and performed from 1959 to 1982 as solo horn player with works by Mozart, Strauss and Britten in Germany (Hamburg, Trier, Kiel) and Japan (Tokyo) and as a chamber musician in Germany, Denmark, Iceland and Japan.
On May 28, 1968, he was awarded the title “Chamber Musician” by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
From April 1, 1958 to March 31, 1982 he was teaching at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . With him studied u. a. Walter Lexut, Jan Schroeder , Joachim Bänsch ( Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra ), Reinhold Möller a . v. a. m. In 1973 he was appointed professor.
In 1988 he was a visiting professor at the Musashino Academia Musicae ( 武 蔵 野 音 楽 大学 , Musashino Ongaku Daigaku) in Tokyo and gave master classes there.
literature
- Chihiro Ozawa: "Ongaku o motomete" ( 音 楽 を 求 め て , music as passion), No. 99: Heinrich Keller, Band Journal 4/1982, Tokyo.
Web links
- Heinrich Keller at the International Horn Society
- Audio samples at the International Horn Society
- The horn solo from Act 2 of Richard Wagner's opera Siegfried
- Heinrich Keller blows the victory cry in Bayreuth 1958 ( WMA ; 1.1 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keller, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German horn player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd August 1990 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |