Heinz Hofmann (conductor)

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Heinz Hofmann (* 1917 in Breslau ; † after 1967) is a German conductor . After artistic positions in Halle (Saale) and Konstanz , he was most recently permanent conductor of the Tokyo Prefecture Symphony Orchestra .

Life

Heinz Hofmann was born in 1917 as the son of a chamber musician in Breslau and grew up in Halle (Saale) and Dresden . After graduating from high school , he attended the orchestra school of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden . There he was a student of Hermann Kutzschbach . In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht Air Force . He was taken prisoner in the United States , where he remained until 1946.

After the Second World War he worked on the stages in Zwickau and Zeitz. Under Walter Schartner in 1949/50 he was initially deputy chief conductor and, after his departure in 1950, provisional chief conductor of the Landes-Volksorchester Sachsen-Anhalt . Werner Gößling became the official successor of Schartner .

In 1953 Hofmann moved to the FRG “because of political danger”, as he stated. After he had been selected from a group of guest conductors, he succeeded music director Richard Driver at the Constance City Orchestra (from 1962 Bodensee Symphony Orchestra ), whose position had been advertised since 1956. According to Robert Heinze , “a personal feud ” between a concert pianist who had been passed over and the music director led to a scandal. Hofmann was accused of incorrectly using the title of general music director , which he had never received in the GDR. A cautious city and the realities of intra-German relations did not help to clarify the matter quickly.

After his call for Tokyo Hofmann announced in Konstanz and worked from 1965 to 1967 as a permanent two conductors ( Permanent Conductor ) of the newly formed Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra .

Discography (selection)

literature

  • Susanne Baselt: Chronicle of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . Part I: 1946 to 1964 . Edited by the management of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle, Halle (Saale) 1999, p. 36.
  • Robert Heinze: From theater orchestra to international orchestra. For the 75th anniversary of the Southwest German Philharmonic (= small series of publications by the Konstanz City Archives . Vol. 6). UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2007, ISBN 978-3-89669-641-0 , p. 57 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Robert Heinze: From theater orchestra to international orchestra. For the 75th anniversary of the Southwest German Philharmonic (= small series of publications by the Konstanz City Archives . Vol. 6). UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2007, ISBN 978-3-89669-641-0 , p. 57 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ^ A b Susanne Baselt: Chronicle of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . Part I: 1946 to 1964 . Edited by the management of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle, Halle (Saale) 1999, p. 36.
  3. ↑ a b Gisela Heine: Tradition and Modernity. 50 years of the Halle State Orchestra . In: the orchestra 1/1997, p. 44.
  4. ↑ a b c d Robert Heinze: From theater orchestra to international orchestra. For the 75th anniversary of the Southwest German Philharmonic (= small series of publications by the Konstanz City Archives . Vol. 6). UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2007, ISBN 978-3-89669-641-0 , p. 61 f.
  5. ↑ Main conductors of TMSO , tmso.or.jp, accessed April 17, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH after 1967