Heinz Unger (conductor)
Heinz Unger (born December 14, 1895 in Berlin , † February 25, 1965 in Toronto ) was a German conductor.
Life
Unger had completed his law studies in 1917 with a legal traineeship and a doctorate and studied until 1919 a. a. at Fritz Stiedry Musik.
From 1919 to 1921 he was one of the guest conductors with the Berliner Philharmoniker and, at the same time, from 1921 to 1933 he led the Cäcilienchor in Berlin, which he founded. From 1923 he was director of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Berlin and in 1928 performed the Symphony of a Thousand in the Great Theater.
From 1933 to 1947 he lived in Leeds / England, where he conducted the Northern Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1934 to 1936 he also conducted the Leningrad Radio Orchestra , about which he published a book under the title Hammer, Sickle and Baton (1939).
In 1948 he moved to Canada, where he made guest appearances with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra .
literature
- John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 822.
- Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 , p. 341.
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-01204-1 (reprint of the Czernowitz edition 1925). Volume 6, p. 161 f
- Hernan Tesler-Mabe: Mahler's Forgotten Conductor. Heinz Unger and his Search for Jewish Meaning, 1895–1965 , Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2020 ISBN 9781487505165 .
Web links
- Short biography and the “Heinz Unger Award” of the “York Concert Society” at the Ontario Arts Council , Ontario .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Unger, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1965 |
| Place of death | Toronto |