Heinz Bongartz (conductor)
Heinz Bongartz (born July 31, 1894 in Krefeld , † May 2, 1978 in Dresden ) was a German conductor and composer .
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Bongartz studied music from 1908 to 1914 at the conservatory in his hometown Krefeld and with Elly Ney , Otto Neitzel and Fritz Steinbach . In 1919 his professional career began as a choir conductor; In 1923 he became the opera director of the Mönchengladbach City Theater . From 1924 to 1926, Bongartz was Kapellmeister at the Berlin Symphony Orchestra , then until 1930 director of the Meiningen regional orchestra , then until 1933 musical director in Gotha . From 1933 to 1937 he held the post of 1st Staatskapellmeister in Kassel and was General Music Director in Saarbrücken from 1939 to 1944 . In 1941 he joined the NSDAP .
Afterwards, after years of working as an opera conductor, Bongartz devoted himself increasingly to concerts and became General Music Director of the Dresden Philharmonic , which he headed from 1947 to 1963 as chief conductor. In the early days of these years, Bongartz was a professor of conducting at the Leipzig University of Music (1946 and 1947). In 1969 he became a corresponding member of the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin (East).
As a conductor, he was primarily committed to works by contemporary composers (e.g. Paul Hindemith ) and made a name for himself above all with his interpretations of the works of Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner . He left behind recordings of works by Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Reger, Hindemith and works by contemporary composers from the GDR.
Bongartz was a member of the Saxon State Parliament (SED) from 1950 to 1952.
Honors
Heinz Bongartz has been commemorated by a street in the Nickern district of Dresden since the late 1990s . There is also a memorial plaque on his former home at Oeserstraße 5 in Dresden-Loschwitz . His grave is in the Loschwitz cemetery .
Compositions and recordings
- Two suites for orchestra (1940 and 1949)
- Metamorphoses and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart (1942)
- Orchestral songs "Japanese Spring"; for soprano and orchestra (1943)
- Burlesque and Scherzo (1957)
- Patria o muerte (1961)
- Symphony (1964)
- Rembrandt Suite (1967)
estate
The compositional estate of Heinz Bongartz is kept in the music department of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library.
literature
- Horst Seeger : Musiklexikon, Leipzig 1981.
- Horst Seeger: Opera Lexicon . 4th edition. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-362-00014-2 , p. 100 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinz Bongartz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Heinz Bongartz's estate in the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 47.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bongartz, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krefeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1978 |
| Place of death | Dresden |