Heinz Dressel (conductor)

Heinz Dressel (1957)

Heinz Dressel (born June 23, 1902 in Mainz , † June 1997 in Essen ) was a German conductor and musician.

Life

Heinz Dressel studied in Cologne with Hermann Abendroth , became Kapellmeister in Plauen , later in Lübeck and there in 1934 General Music Director. During the time of National Socialism , he conducted the world premiere of Hugo Distler's setting of the Thingspiel Ewiges Deutschland by Wolfram Brockmeier in 1934 .

From 1941/42 to 1951 he was general music director in Münster , then in Freiburg im Breisgau (1951–1956) and later in Essen . Dressel was also director of the Folkwang Schools in Essen from 1956 , where he himself took over the conducting class, the orchestra and the opera department (the opera department only until 1958). Dressel founded the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen in 1958 . From 1964 to 1968 he was President of the German Music Council .

Honors

1969: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1989: Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

literature

Bernd Haunfelder : North Rhine-Westphalia-Land and People 1946-2006: a biographical manual, Aschendorff Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-402-06615-7 . Page 129.
Heinz Dressel: Heinz Dressel. In: Karl Gustav Fellerer (Ed.): Rhenish musicians. 5th episode . A. Volk, Cologne 1967, pp. 38-39

Web links

Commons : Heinz Dressel - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ “The association appointed the concert conductor and from then on Lübeck became a springboard for young talents . On Ugo Afferni followed Hermann Abendroth , Wilhelm Furtwängler , who with Gustav Mahler befriended George Göhler and afterwards became Bayreuth -Dirigent Franz von Hoesslin , Karl Mannstaedt, Edwin Fischer , Eugen Jochum , Ludwig Leschetitzki and Heinz Dressel "Quote by:. Moving Orchestra History of Günter Zschacke , In: Die Tonkunst , October 2013, No. 4, Vol. 7 (2013), ISSN 1863-3536 , p. 498
^ On Dressel's activity in Lübeck: Jörg Fligge: "Schöne Lübeck Theaterwelt". The city theater during the Nazi dictatorship. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2018. ISBN 978-3-7950-5244-7 . Pp. 90-95, 284-286.
↑ 100 Years of Theater Freiburg ( Memento from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Dressel, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 23, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mainz
DATE OF DEATH	June 1997
Place of death	eat

[1] “The association appointed the concert conductor and from then on Lübeck became a springboard for young talents . On Ugo Afferni followed Hermann Abendroth , Wilhelm Furtwängler , who with Gustav Mahler befriended George Göhler and afterwards became Bayreuth -Dirigent Franz von Hoesslin , Karl Mannstaedt, Edwin Fischer , Eugen Jochum , Ludwig Leschetitzki and Heinz Dressel "Quote by:. Moving Orchestra History of Günter Zschacke , In: Die Tonkunst , October 2013, No. 4, Vol. 7 (2013), ISSN 1863-3536 , p. 498

[2] On Dressel's activity in Lübeck: Jörg Fligge: "Schöne Lübeck Theaterwelt". The city theater during the Nazi dictatorship. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2018. ISBN 978-3-7950-5244-7 . Pp. 90-95, 284-286.

[3] 100 Years of Theater Freiburg ( Memento from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[4] Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .