Helmut Winschermann

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Helmut Winschermann (born March 22, 1920 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German oboist , university professor and conductor .

Oboist and professor

Helmut Winschermann, who was speech-impaired due to palatal paralysis, first studied violin at the Folkwang School in Essen from 1936, where he soon changed his subject and was taught by the important oboist Johann Baptist Schlee (1897–1975). After only one year, his first orchestra engagement followed in Witten , from 1939 with the Oberhausen Municipal Orchestra . Soon after the end of the war in 1945, Winschermann took over the post of 1st solo oboist in the Symphony Orchestra of Radio Frankfurt, later the Hessischer Rundfunk (HR). He carried out this activity until 1951, but was appointed as a lecturer at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold in 1948 . In 1951 he founded a master class for oboe and chamber music there and in 1956 took over the newly created professorship for oboe. A number of highly respected oboists emerged from his “oboe factory”, as Winschermann later called it, such as Hansjörg Schellenberger , Günther Passin, Fumiaki Miyamoto, Ingo Goritzki and Gernot Schmalfuß, Winschermann's later successor in the professorship in Detmold.

Together with the flautist Kurt Redel and the harpsichordist Irmgard Lechner, Winschermann founded the chamber music association Collegium Pro Arte , which he himself led in 1954 after being converted into the Collegium Instrumentale Detmold .

Helmut Winschermann went on many concert tours as a soloist and chamber musician and was a permanent participant in the Cappella Coloniensis , in the Saarland Chamber Orchestra under Karl Ristenpart and in the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra .

German Bach soloists

In 1960 Winschermann, himself also a specialist in the baroque oboe, founded a music group for the Frankfurt Bach Concerts, which was primarily to take on the music of the Baroque era - the German Bach Soloists. In the first few years Winschermann led his orchestra from the oboe, but later switched his instrument for the baton. Since then the ensemble has made music all over the world. In 1995 it was enthusiastically celebrated on its 14th tour of Japan for its performances of all six Brandenburg Concerts by Johann Sebastian Bach .

On the occasion of the "50 Years of German Bach Soloists" anniversary, the now 90-year-old Winschermann gave a concert with his chamber orchestra on October 17, 2010 in the Beethoven House in Bonn. The program contained the "Goldberg Variations" by JS Bach in the instrumentation of Helmut Winschermann.

Around 100 records and CDs bear witness to the work of Helmut Winschermann and his Bach soloists.

Awards

Quote

In an interview on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1990, Winschermann said: In the 1950s I was referred to as the "singer on the oboe". Back then I was a very courageous wind player and tried an espressivo on the oboe, which hadn't really existed before. - With the demands of the modern orchestra, however, the ideal of sound has changed again. Today you play with a rounder, darker and fuller oboe tone.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Web archive / German Bach Soloists ( Memento from January 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Winschermann, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oboist , university professor and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr