Herbert Kegel

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Herbert Kegel (born July 29, 1920 in Großzschachwitz (near Dresden), † November 20, 1990 in Dresden ) was a German conductor and, along with Kurt Masur, was one of the most important orchestral conductors in the GDR .

In 1949 he came to Leipzig and directed the Radio Choir (1949–1978) and the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra (1958–1978) for 30 years , of which he subsequently became honorary conductor. In addition, he was honorary professor at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1975 to 1978 . Kegel advanced to become the most important " Orff specialist" in German-speaking countries. His commitment to contemporary composers made the music metropolis of Leipzig an "International Showcase of Modernism" (Dirk Stöve). From 1977 to 1985 he was chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic . He then worked as a guest conductor in Japan, where today he is perceived as one of the most important conductor personalities of the 20th century.

His extensive discography has won several awards by national and international experts, he received in 1986 for the world's first digital recordings of all Beethoven symphonies the Prize of the German Record Critics . He was u. a. National prize winner (1961) and holder of the badge of honor of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR (1980).

Life

Childhood and youth

Herbert Kegel was born as the son of Fritz Kegel and his wife Martha, née Missbach, in Großzschachwitz , which has been part of Dresden since 1950. At the time, his father was working as a chief mechanic at the mechanical engineering company Kelle & Hildebrandt in neighboring Großluga . Herbert's sister Ilse was born in 1925.

From 1927 to 1935 he attended the primary school "An der Aue" in Dresden and sang under Pastor Drechsel in the Evangelical Lutheran carolers of the Stephanuskirche in Kleinzschachwitz . He received piano lessons from Hanns Voigt. Later he presented to the Dresden Kreuzchor under Rudolf Mauersberger , who, however, turned him down for age reasons regardless of his singing talent. Instead, he was taught piano and cello at the Academy for Music and Theater in Dresden in preparation for his studies.

Studies and career beginnings

Originally, Kegel wanted to study with the conductor Karl Böhm , but he was busy as chief conductor of the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden . On April 1, 1935, Kegel enrolled as a major in piano with Diener von Schönberg at the orchestral school of the Staatskapelle (from 1937 Dresden Conservatory ). He also studied conducting with Ernst Hintze , choir conducting with Alfred Stier , composition and counterpoint as the last student of Boris Blacher and singing (tenor) with Karl Zinnert until 1940 . He passed the exam in choral conducting with a “very good”. In addition to his studies , he sat in with Böhm, who certified him in writing as having “excellent technical and musical disposition” as well as “technical dexterity and confident appearance in front of choir and orchestra”.

Herbert Kegel was drafted for military service in 1939. During the subsequent planning interview, he declined to work in the military music service. A year later he was drafted into military service in Bautzen . In 1943 he received military training as a radio operator . Until 1945 he served in the 56th Infantry Division , which u. a. was used in the Eastern campaign . During the war he composed some songs. However, he had to end a career as a pianist due to a gunshot wound to his left hand.

For this reason, after the war he took conducting lessons from Kurt Striegler , who recommended him as a conductor to Pirna during his training . In 1945 Kegel became a conductor at the Pirna Operetta Theater, where he worked with the singer Gretel Ferschinger , among others . From August 1, 1946, he was choirmaster and second conductor at the Rostock City Theater . In Rostock he met the influential composition teacher Rudolf Wagner-Régeny , who was the rector of the Rostock University of Music at the time . Some of Wagner-Régeny's works were performed by Kegel at the Rostock City Theater. In later years he conducted his works in Dresden and Berlin. His relationships with GDR composers from the very beginning led the musicologist Klaus Angermann to the conclusion that Kegel had come to terms with socialist realism .

Work in Leipzig

Head of the Leipzig Radio Choir

Program leaflet for the anniversary concert ten years of the Radio Choir and the Great Radio Orchestra Leipzig

In 1949, on the recommendation of the Rostock general music director Gerhard Pflüger, he became artistic director of the Leipzig Radio Choir (until 1978). He cooperated with the choirmasters Dietrich Knothe , Armin Oeser and Horst Neumann . The repertoire increasingly included contemporary choral works by Benjamin Britten , Hans Werner Henze and Rudolf Wagner-Régeny. Concert tours took the choir through Germany a. a. to the Berlin Philharmonic and the Dresden Kulturpalast as well as to Denmark, Finland and Sweden. Herbert Kegel conducted Britten's War Requiem in the Catholic Court Church in Dresden in 1980 , a cooperation between GDR television and the BBC to commemorate the destruction of Coventry Cathedral and the Dresden Court Church in World War II.

The Leipzig musicologist Werner Wolf remembered Kegel's “relentlessly strict choir education” in 1996 and the resulting “unique performances of great oratorical works and cantatas”.

Chief conductor of the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra

From 1949 to 1953, Herbert Kegel was also chief conductor of the Great Radio Orchestra. In 1958 he became first conductor and two years later chief conductor of the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra , whose honorary conductor he was later appointed. This made him Germany's youngest general music director . Both of Leipzig's great conductors, Herbert Kegel and the Gewandhaus Kapellmeister Kurt Masur (from 1970), held each other in high regard. Kegel developed the radio orchestra into one of the leading orchestras in the GDR by using a contemporary program compared to the Gewandhausorchester and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden , which appealed to the traditional musical tastes of the concert-goers.

Kegel cooperated intensively with Paul Dessau and other composers of new music . From 1960 to 1980 he engaged well-known composers such as Boris Blacher, Luigi Dallapiccola , Edisson Denissow , Paul-Heinz Dittrich , Werner Egk , Gottfried von Eine , Jean Françaix , Friedrich Goldmann , Cristóbal Halffter and Hans Werner Henze for the series “Composers as Conductors” , Wolfgang Fortner , Karl Amadeus Hartmann , Milko Kelemen , Rudolf Kelterborn , Ernst Krenek , René Leibowitz , Witold Lutosławski , Siegfried Matthus , Luigi Nono , Krzysztof Penderecki and Siegfried Thiele . During his term in office, Herbert Kegel campaigned for school concerts and the Leipzig City Hall concerts, which were first held in 1965 .

One of the highlights of his work was the double performance of the joint composition Jüdische Chronik by the composers Dessau, Hartmann , Henze and Wagner-Régeny with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra under Christoph von Dohnányi on January 14, 1966 in Cologne and on February 15, 1966 in Leipzig . He also brought Henze's Das Raft der Medusa to the GDR premiere on January 22, 1974 , which earned him criticism from East German cultural officials because of the Che Guevara depiction and Henze's compositional style. Kegel then resigned from the GDR's Association of Composers and Musicologists . He also played a key role in building up the chamber music ensemble Neue Musik Hanns Eisler led by Burkhard Glaetzner and Friedrich Schenker . The ensemble became the most important representative of progressive music in the GDR.

Kegel organized more than 100 concert opera performances with Walter Zimmer, who was then senior director of the Leipzig Opera . They put Wagner's Parsifal , Berg's Wozzeck and Schönberg's Moses und Aron on the program. The headline of the Leipziger Volkszeitung was : “Pioneering deeds for music theater”. In 1961, Kegel signed a guest contract with the German State Opera in Berlin. He became a sought-after interpreter of the works of Carl Orff, who himself favored him over all other conductors. A planned move to the Semperoper in Dresden could not be realized because the directorate and Staatskapelle could not agree.

From 1975 to 1978 he also worked as an honorary professor for conducting at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music in Leipzig .

Chief Conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic

Herbert Kegel was looking for more guest performances abroad that were difficult to convey with a radio orchestra. The conductor Heinz Bongartz campaigned for his appointment to Dresden in 1977. Until 1985, Kegel was Günther Herbig's successor chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic and thereafter permanent guest conductor until 1990, where he worked in Leipzig and Dresden in parallel in the 1977/78 season. From 1978 he appeared regularly at the international Dresden Music Festival, particularly with choral symphonies, such as in 1980 with Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges (Dresden premiere). With Wagner's Parsifal (1979), he revived the rediscovery of the controversial composer in Dresden after the Second World War. Foreign concerts with the Leipzig and Dresden orchestras have taken him to the Soviet Union, FRG, Switzerland, Great Britain, France, Italy, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Japan and the Middle East.

Herbert Kegel's grave

In the former Saxon residence city, in contrast to Leipzig, despite close artistic collaboration with the composers Mikis Theodorakis and Paul-Heinz Dittrich , he mainly interpreted classical works such as the Beethoven symphonies . The conservative taste in music of the Dresden audience and the city's traditional cultural policy left little room for the performance of new compositions. Due to insurmountable programmatic differences of opinion with the functionaries of the city and the orchestra, the city of Dresden dismissed him in honor on his 65th birthday. Melancholy he noted in 1985:

“65 is not an age. Nevertheless, my state puts me on old age [...] I am healthy, possibly dead in the year 2000. I never took the path of least resistance. Raised by teachers, here in Dresden Boris Blacher, later in Berlin Paul Dessau, I followed the thorny path of progress like them. It kept me young. True to the teaching: 2 steps forward, one step back (to be able to go back again) I accept the decision of the superiors of this city and go on time. "

In addition to his work as a conductor, he held a teaching position for “New Music and Symphonic Choral Literature for Orchestra” and, after 1980, held masterclasses in conducting at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden .

In the 1980s he was a guest conductor in Japan . Herbert Kegel gave his last concert with the Staatskapelle Halle in October 1990 on the occasion of the XX. Hallischen Musiktage , where he performed works by Blacher, Domhardt and Stravinsky. Herbert Kegel passed away on November 20, 1990 after a long depression by suicide . His grave is in the Stephanusfriedhof in Dresden- Meusslitz . The oboist Burkhard Glaetzner said about Kegel's fate: "He was never at peace with himself, and he was never at peace."

family

In 1944, Kegel married a childhood friend. He had three children with her. He was also the biological father of Uwe Hassbecker (* 1960), musician in the rock band Silly . His girlfriend at the time, the opera singer Eva Hassbecker , married the pianist and composer Thomas Müller in 1985 . From 1966 to 1983 Herbert Kegel was married to the Italian soprano Celestina Casapietra , who was 18 years his junior . The singer (tenor) and actor Björn Casapietra (* 1970) comes from this marriage.

meaning

The composer Friedrich Schenker, whom he strongly encouraged, saw in Kegel a conductor "with arms like a chronometer, who understands music primarily as work". His rehearsals were therefore respected and feared by musicians and choirs alike. For example, he conducted his orchestra for more than ten hours a day at rehearsals for Mahler's symphonies or Schönberg's Gurre songs . One attested him an "unpretentious way of conducting". The jurors of the German Record Critics' Prize recognized Kegel in 1986 as follows:

“Herbert Kegel is one of the most important contemporary conductors. He has made a big name for himself internationally. His tonal sense of style, the extraordinary rhythmic precision, and in general the technical perfection of his analytical, always music-inspired manner of interpretation, controlled by an energetic will, are particularly praised and valued. His intensive engagement with contemporary music has also shaped and shaped his rendition of classical masterpieces, which are often idiosyncratic but always refreshing, personal, spontaneous, distinguished and committed. "

As an experienced choir teacher, he developed the Rundfunkchor Leipzig into one of the best and most sought-after European choirs, capable of handling even the most complex modern works. His 1000 radio and 150 record productions are his legacy. They document 30 years of German music culture and, through the choice of repertoire, are at the same time an expression of humanistic sentiments and high artistic mastery. He made the world's first digital recording of the Beethoven cycle with the Dresden Philharmonic. His commitment to the composer Carl Orff resulted in several highly regarded recordings such as Trionfi , Die Kluge and Der Mond .

The magazine Das Orchester put it: "Kegel understood it masterfully - and here he is perhaps most similar to Hermann Scherchen  - to bring modern music into connection with classical heritage." Others compared him to his West German colleagues Michael Gielen and Hans Rosbaud . Occasionally he was also referred to as "Gielen of the GDR".

Many works by composers of the 20th century were premiered under his direction , such as works by Reiner Bredemeyer , Alan Bush , Max Butting , Edisson Denissow , Paul Dessau , Paul-Heinz Dittrich , Peter Dorn , Hanns Eisler , Fritz Geißler , Friedrich Goldmann , Georg Katzer , Günter Kochan , Fred Lohse , Siegfried Matthus , Ernst Hermann Meyer , Friedrich Schenker , Kurt Schwaen , Rudolf Wagner-Régeny , Helmut Zapf and Udo Zimmermann . He also campaigned for GDR premieres of works by internationally renowned composers - also against cultural and political resistance - such as B. by Olivier Messiaen ( Turangalîla Symphony ) , Bohuslav Martinů (Lidice) , Arnold Schönberg ( A Survivor from Warsaw ) , Hans Werner Henze ( The Raft of Medusa ) , Benjamin Britten (War Requiem) , Luigi Nono (epitaph to Federico García Lorca) , Isang Yun (double concerto for oboe and harp with small orchestra) and Krzysztof Penderecki (Dies irae) .

In Japan , in particular , he achieved extraordinary popularity with the Leipzig Radio Orchestra and the Dresden Philharmonic. Since the 1980s, he has been venerated alongside Herbert von Karajan as the greatest German-speaking conductor of the 20th century. As a guest conductor, he has headed the NHK Symphony Orchestra , the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra. It was included in the book "Great Musicians on Stage" by the Japanese photographer Kinoshita Akira . In 1988 he was u. a. with Seiji Ozawa and Gennadi Roschdestwenski juror at the "Tokyo International Music Competition for Conducting".

Herbert Kegel's conducting students included a. a. Max Pommer and Naoki Sugiyama .

Awards

Awards and honors

• 1959 Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic
• 1960 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• 1961 National Prize of the GDR for Art and Literature, III. class
• 1966 German Record Prize (for Paul Dessau: The Condemnation of Lucullus )
• 1967 Prize of the Chilean music critics as best foreign performer of the season
• 1968 Chilean Art Prize (for the interpretation of all of Beethoven's symphonies)
• 1968 Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy (for Kurt Weill: The seven deadly sins of the petty bourgeoisie)
• 1969 Premio della Critica Discografica Italiana (for Kurt Weill: The seven deadly sins of the petty bourgeoisie)
• 1969 two record awards from the magazine " Musik und Gesellschaft " (for Benjamin Britten: War Requiem / for Ernst Hermann Meyer: Toccata Appassionata)
• 1969 Critics' Prize of the Berliner Zeitung (for Benjamin Britten: War Requiem)
• 1974 Patriotic Order of Merit of the GDR in silver
• 1974 Arthur Nikisch Prize of the City of Leipzig
• 19 ?? Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy (for Carl Orff: Trionfi)
• 1980 Gold badge of honor of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR
• 1981 Golden Laurel of the GDR television station (for the great contribution to popularizing music through the medium of television)
• 1986 German Record Critics' Prize (for the production of all Beethoven symphonies in 1983 - as the first complete digital recording in the world)

Further appreciations

• The composer Friedrich Schenker dedicated his piece for virtuosos I for orchestra to him in 1970 , which Kegel premiered in 1971.
• In 2011, the Leipzig City Council decided to give a new street in the Probstheida district the name Kegelweg .

Compositions

• Towards the Sun (1935)
• The Waltz Song for Käthe (1939)
• Twelve Songs (1945)

Discography

Symphonies, concerts, masses, cantatas (selection)

• Addinsell : Warsaw Concerto for Piano & Orchestra , Dresdner Philharmonie , 1969.
• Bartók : Concerto for Orchestra , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra , 1972.
• Beethoven : Symphonies 1–9 , Dresden Philharmonic, Allison Hargan, Ute Walther, Eberhard Büchner , Kolos Kováts, 1984.
• Beethoven: Symphonies 2–4, 8, 9 , Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Celestina Casapietra , Anneliese Burmeister, Peter Schreier , Theo Adam , 1973–1975, 1982
• Beethoven: Overture to Egmont , Dresden Philharmonic, 1989
• Beethoven: Mass in C major , Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Hanne-Lore Kuhse , Annelies Burmeister, Peter Schreier, Theo Adam, 1969
• Beethoven: Fantasy for piano, choir and orchestra , Dresdner Philharmonie, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, 1987, text : Johannes R. Becher
• Beethoven: Triple Concerto , Dresden Philharmonic, Peter Rösel , Christian Funke , Jürnjakob Timm , 1987.
• Berlioz : Symphonie fantastique , Dresden Philharmonic, 1984.
• Blacher : Concertante music for orchestra , orchestral variations on a theme by Paganini , Dresden Philharmonic, 1982.
• Blacher: Second Piano Concerto , Dresden Philharmonic, Gerty Herzog, 1982.
• Brahms : Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2, B flat major , Dresden Philharmonic, Annerose Schmidt , 1979.
• Brahms: Symphony No. 1 , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, 1973.
• Brahms: Symphony No. 2 , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, 1990.
• Brahms: Symphony No. 4 , NHK Symphony Orchestra , 1983.
• Brahms: A German Requiem , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Radio Choir, Mari Ann Häggander, Siegfried Lorenz , 1987.
• Britten : War Requiem , Dresden Philharmonic, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Dresdner Kapellknaben, Kari Lövaas, Anthony Roden, Theo Adam, 1989.
• Bruckner : Symphony No. 3 (Version 1888/89) , Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, 1986.
• Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, 1975.
• Bruckner: Te Deum , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Radio Choir, Eva Andor, Anneliese Burmeister, Eberhard Büchner, Siegfried Vogel , 1979.
• Dvořák : Requiem , Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Celestina Casapietra, Anneliese Burmeister, Peter Schreier, Theo Adam, 1988.
• Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 From the New World , Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig, 1967.
• Gershwin : Porgy and Bess Suite , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, 1956.
• Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, 1959.
• Haydn : Die Jahreszeiten , Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Adele Stolte, Peter Schreier, Theo Adam, 1971.
• Hindemith : The Harmony of the World , Dresden Philharmonic, 1984.
• Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione-Suite , Dresden Philharmonic, 1980.
• Hindemith: Pittsburgh Symphony , Dresden Philharmonic, 1985.
• Hindemith: Sinfonia serena , Dresdner Philharmonie, 1982.
• Hindemith: Symphony in Eb , Dresden Philharmonic, 1981.
• Mahler : Symphony No. 1 , Dresden Philharmonic, 1979.
• Mahler: Symphony No. 4 , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Celestina Casapietra, 1978.
• Mahler: Symphony No. 7 , Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, 1985.
• Mahler: Das Klagende Lied Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Hajossyova, Lang, Korondi, Kurth, 1985.
• Mendelssohn Bartholdy : Concerto for piano and orchestra in A minor , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Siegfried Stöckigt , 1985.
• Mozart : Masses: Missa brevis (KV 49, 65, 258), Dominicus Messe (KV 66), Pastoral Mass (KV 140), Missa Trinitatis, Missa longa (KV 262) (KV 167) , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Radio Choir, Helen Donath , Uwe Heilmann, Rosemarie Lang , Annette Markert, Edith Mathis , Andreas Schmidt , Jan-Hendrik Rootering , Michael-Christfried Winkler , 1987.
• Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, KV 550 , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, 1987.
• Modest Mussorgsky : Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel ) Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1968.
• Mussorgsky: A Night on Bald Mountain , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, 1970.
• Ravel : Boléro , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, 1985.
• Schönberg: Gurre-Lieder , Dresden Philharmonie, members of the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Radio Choir, Berlin Radio Choir, Prague Male Choir, Eva-Maria Bundschuh, Rosemarie Lang, Manfred Jung, Wolf Appel, Ulric Cold, Gert Westphal , 1986.
• Shostakovich : Symphony No. 5 , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, 1980.
• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad" , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, 1972.
• Schubert : Mass in G major , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stolte, Weimann, Leib, 1979.
• Schubert: Mass in G major , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Magdalena Hajossyova, Eberhard Büchner, Hermann Christian Polster, 1986.
• Schubert: Stabat mater , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Magdalena Hajossyova, Eberhard Büchner, Hermann Christian Polster, 1986.
• Stravinsky : Concerto in E flat major “Dumberton Oaks” , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Olbertz, 1973.
• Theodorakis : Symphony No. 7 "Spring Symphony" , Dresden Philharmonic, Radiochor Prag, Lövaas, Madjarova, Larinas, Emmerlich, 1987.

Operas and operettas (selection)

• Bizet : Carmen , Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig , Červená , Apeck , Lauhöfer, Neukirch, Leib , Klemm , Aderhold , Croonen, Engert, Kehl , 1961.
• Berg : Wozzeck , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Radio Choir , Theo Adam , Gisela Schröter , Reiner Goldberg , 1976.
• Blacher : The Grand Inquisitor , Dresden Philharmonic, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Nimsgern , 1985.
• Britten : Orchestra leader for young people , Staatskapelle Dresden , Rolf Ludwig , 1972.
• Dessau : The Condemnation of Lukullus , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Radio Choir, Leipzig Radio Children's Choir, Melchert, Krahmer, Schreier, Rotzsch, Burmeister, Anders, Wenglor, 1964.
• Dvořák : Biblical Songs , Dresden Philharmonic, Theo Adam, 1988.
• Hindemith : Mathis the painter , Dresden Philharmonic, 1980.
• Kálmán : Countess Mariza , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Radio Choir, Zorn, Ritzmann, Richter, Pallesche, Westmaeyer, 1953.
• Lehár : The Merry Widow , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Radio Choir, Zorn, Hölzke, Richter, Nowotny, Kozub, Schwarzbach, 1953.
• Mussorgsky : Boris Godunow , (cross section) , Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden , Adam, Trexler, Hölzke, Vogel , Ritzmann, Kuhse, Schaal, Schreier, 1972.
• Orff : Carmina Burana , Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Rundfunkkinderchor Leipzig, Jutta Vulpius , Hans-Joachim Rotzsch , Kurt Rehm, Kurt Hübenthal, 1960.
• Orff: Trifoni: Carmina Burana, Catulli Carmina , Trionfo di Afrodite , Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Dresdner Kapellknaben, Eberhard Büchner, Celestina Casapietra, Horst Hiestermann, Renate Krahmer, Isabella Nawe, Karl- Reiner Stryczek, , Regina Werner, 1973–1978.
• Orff: Die Kluge , Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Karl-Heinz Stryczek, Reiner Süß, Magdalena Falewicz, Horand Friedrich, Gerhard Lau , Eberhard Büchner, Winfried Wagner , Siegfried Lorenz, Arno Wyzniewski , Harald Neukirch, Wolfgang Ostberg , Wolfgang Hellmich , Reinhard Michalke , Hermann Christian Polster , Werner Senftleben , 1982.
• Orff: Der Mond , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Radio Choir, Eberhard Büchner, Fred Teschler, Hort Lunow, Helmut Klotz, Armin Terzibaschian, Wilfried Schaal, Hans-Joachim Hegewald, Paul Gahn, 1970.
• Prokofiev : Peter and the Wolf , Staatskapelle Dresden , Rolf Ludwig , 1972.
• Puccini : Gianni Schicchi , Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Rupf, Tomowa-Sintow , Teodorian, Härtel, Polster, Burmeister, 1973.
• Ravel : The child and the magic spook, Büchner, Hiestermann, Rotzsch, Lunow, Croonen, Kögelmann, Unger, Wandelt, Knorrn, Kästner, 1973.
• Rossini : Guglielmo Tell , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Schubert-Heuhaus, Hahnkamm, Lutze, Horand, Kaphan, Ramacher, 1953.
• Schönberg : Moses and Aron , Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Radio Choir, Haseleu, Goldberg, Krahmer, Pohl, Ude, Polster, Stryczek, 1978.
• Strauss : Ariadne auf Naxos , Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Friedland, Schüffler, Ziese, Wocke, Vulpius , Lauhöfer, Schelske, 1954.
• Wagner : Parsifal , Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Thomanerchor , Kollo Adam, Cold, Bunger, Breul, Pohl, 1975.
• Verdi : Otello , Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Miltschinoff, Friedland, Löbel, Stolze, Schwarzbach, Roth, Eile, Walter-Sacks, 1954.

Filmography

• Here and there , documentary, GDR 1969, director: Gitta Nickel (with artists from the GDR abroad)

literature

monograph

• Helga Kuschmitz: Herbert Kegel. Legend without taboo. A conductor's life in the 20th century. Kamprad, Altenburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-930550-27-2 .

reference books

• Kegel, Herbert. In: Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 150.
• Kegel, Herbert. In: Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (ed.): SBZ biography. Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 174.
• Kegel, Herbert. In: Brockhaus-Riemann Musiklexikon. CD-Rom, Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89853-438-3 , p. 5274.
• Julian Caskel: Kegel, Herbert . In: Julian Caskel, Hartmut Hein (Hrsg.): Handbuch Dirigenten. 250 portraits . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2015, ISBN 978-3-7618-2174-9 , pp. 224–225.
• Kegel, Herbert. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. Volume 14, part 2, Arani, Berlin 1965, p. 156.
• Kegel, Herbert. In: John L. Holmes: Conductors on Record. Greenwood Press, Westport 1982, ISBN 0-575-02781-9 , pp. 327-328.
• Kegel, Herbert. In: Stefan Jaeger (Ed.): The Atlantis Book of Conductors. An encyclopedia. Atlantis-Musikbuch-Verlag, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-254-00106-0 , p. 189.
• Kegel, Herbert. In: Volker Klimpel: Famous Dresdeners. Historical-biographical handbook of important personalities, born in Dresden. Hellerau-Verlag, Dresden 2002, ISBN 978-3-910184-85-5 , p. 85.
• Kegel, Herbert. In: Juliusz Stroynowski (Ed.): Who's who in the socialist countries of Europe. A biographical encyclopedia of more than 12600 leading personalities in Albania - Bulgaria - Czechoslovakia - German Democratic Republic - Hungary - Poland - Romania - Yugoslavia. Volume 2: I - O. Saur, Munich a. a. 1989, ISBN 978-3-11-186674-1 , p. 540.
• Martin Elste :  Kegel, Herbert. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 9 (Himmel - Kelz). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1119-5 , Sp. 1586–1587 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

Essays and individual studies

• Fruitful years: Herbert Kegel and the RSO Leipzig 1960 to 1978. In: Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth (Hrsg.): Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The history of the symphony orchestra . Kamprad, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-930550-09-1 , p. 125 ff.
• Herbert Kegel's term of office. In: Dieter Härtwig : The Dresden Philharmonic. Altis, Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-910195-04-0 , p. 134 ff.
• Friedrich Schenker : Herbert Kegel on his 60th birthday. With illustrations. In: Musik und Gesellschaft 30 (1980) 7, pp. 434-435.
• Werner Wolf : Herbert Kegel . In: Musik und Gesellschaft 10 (1960) 8, pp. 469–471

Web links

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• Works by and about Herbert Kegel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Herbert Kegel  in the German Digital Library
• Search for Herbert Kegel in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Herbert Kegel , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 02/1991 of December 31, 1990, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Herbert Kegel - Portrait of a lateral thinker on the website of Björn Casapietra
• Remembering Herbert Kegel on the 15th anniversary of his death at the Association of Friends and Supporters of the MDR Radio Choir

Remarks

1. ↑ Dirk Stöve (* 1969) is a German historian and specialist in the history of the Berlin orchestral scene; GND 123717760

Individual evidence

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