Heribert Beissel

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Heribert Beissel (born March 27,  1933 in Wesel ) is a German conductor , choir director and university lecturer. He was chief conductor of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and general music director of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle and the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt .

Life

Heribert Beissel was born in 1933 as the son of Rector Ferdinand Beissel and his wife Maria Beissel in Wesel on the Lower Rhine . He grew up in the village of Röhrdt, where his father worked as a criminal offender. After graduating from the Catholic Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck , he majored in piano, conducting and composition at the State University of Music in Cologne . His teachers included u. a. Günter Wand and Frank Martin . He financed his studies a. a. as cabaret - Pianist , Composer and choirmaster .

In 1955 he became a repetitor at the Bonn Opera , where he later rose to become 1st Kapellmeister. He also worked as a lied accompanist and chamber musician for WDR Cologne . In Bonn he founded the Chur Cölnische Kammerorchester Bonn together with the violinist Hans-Georg Büchel , which he directed from 1959 to 1965 and from which the Classical Philharmonic Bonn emerged in 1986 . Since 1988 he has been organizing the “Wiener Klassik” concert series with the Philharmonie, which focuses on the epoch of music of the same name with its main representatives Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. Starting from Bonn, eleven other West German cities are now being used. After touring Japan and France in 1967, he founded a chamber choir in 1968 , the Chur Cölnischen Chor Bonn . He has made guest appearances with his ensembles at home and abroad and has won several international awards. In Bonn he became a member of the Rotary Club .

From 1971 to 1986 he was chief conductor of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra , which then made him an honorary member. In 1974 he received a professorship at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater and until 1983 directed the conductor training at the Detmold University of Music . In 1975 he became director of the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra in Essen . Guest conductors have taken him to the Duisburg Symphony Orchestra (1974) and the NDR Symphony Orchestra (1977) as well as through Spain, Austria and Germany. He has also conducted the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in Japan repeatedly . From 1976 he was a regular guest conductor at the Hamburg State Opera . There he worked closely with the ballet director and chief choreographer of the Hamburg Ballet , John Neumeier . Further appearances have taken him to several music festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the Istanbul International Music Festival, the Bregenz Summer Festival, the Festival van Vlaanderen , the Bachwochen Ansbach , the Berliner Festwochen and the Beethovenfest in Bonn. Beissel was director of the Eutin Opera Festival .

After the political change , he shifted his artistic focus to the new federal states . In the course of a guest conducting in the spring of 1990, he was elected to succeed Olaf Koch as chief conductor of the Halleschen Philharmonie , as such he served from July 1990 to June 1999. In 1991 the orchestra was renamed the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle , and at the same time he was appointed General Music Director of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. Together with the Mayor of Halle, Klaus Peter Rauen , whom he knew from Bonn, he initiated the first new concert hall in the New States. In October 1998 he and the State Orchestra inaugurated the Great Hall of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Halle with Beethoven's The Consecration of the House and Mahler's Second Symphony . As early as 1992, together with the State Music Council of Saxony-Anhalt , he initiated the establishment of the State Youth Orchestra of Saxony-Anhalt, of which he was artistic director until 2019. From 2001 to 2006 he was general music director of the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt (Oder).

In the 1990s he made guest appearances with Wagner operas a. a. in Australia and South America.

Above all, Beissel cultivates the classical and romantic repertoire. He made several radio and CD recordings. He played Wagner's C major symphony, ballet music from Rubinstein's opera The Demon and various piano concertos ( Chopin , Hummel and others).

family

Beissel, Roman Catholic, lives in Remagen in the Rhineland . He is married and has two children. His youngest daughter Katharina Beissel (* 1978) is an actress and was married to the comedian and actor Tom Gerhardt .

Awards

Filmography

  • The Lady of the Camellias (1986/87)
  • Globi and the Shadow Robber (2001-2003)

literature

  • Heribert Beissel , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 08/2008 from February 19, 2008, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who . 35th edition (1996/97), Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1995, ISBN 3-7950-2019-0 , p. 81.
  • Gisela Heine: The Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . G. Heine, Halle (Saale) 1997, p. 45f.
  • John L. Holmes: Conductors on Record. Greenwood Press, Westport 1982, ISBN 0-575-02781-9 , p. 55.
  • Hans-Joachim Schellmann, Manfred Wockel (Eds.): Who's Who in the Catholic World. Name texts about leading personalities of the Catholic faith in secular and clerical positions in German . 3rd edition, Intercontinental Book and Publishing, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-85413-003-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Hans-Joachim Schellmann, Manfred Wockel (Ed.): Who's Who in the Catholic World. Name texts about leading personalities of the Catholic faith in secular and clerical positions in German . 3rd edition, Intercontinental Book and Publishing, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-85413-003-1 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Heribert Beissel in the Munzinger archive , accessed on April 18, 2020 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  3. ↑ a b Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who . 35th edition (1996/97), Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1995, ISBN 3-7950-2019-0 , p. 81.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g John L. Holmes: Conductors on Record. Greenwood Press, Westport 1982, ISBN 0-575-02781-9 , p. 55.
  5. ↑ a b c Felicitas Zink: With the baton around the world . In: Kölnische Rundschau , March 23, 2013.
  6. ↑ Tom R. Schulz: A life for harmony. Conductor Heribert Beissel, head of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra for 14 years, is celebrating his 80th birthday this Wednesday . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , March 27, 2013, No. 73, p. 19.
  7. ↑ Bernhard Hartmann: Viennese Classic for Bonn and Berlin. Heribert Beissel is 70 years old today . In: Bonner General-Anzeiger , March 27, 2003, p. 13.
  8. ↑ a b c d Gisela Heine: The Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . G. Heine, Halle (Saale) 1997, p. 45f.
  9. ↑ a b Bernhard Hartmann: The passionate Bruckner for his birthday: Heribert Beissel, the long-time head of the Classical Philharmonic Bonn, is 80 today . In: Bonner General-Anzeiger , March 27, 2013, p. 12.
  10. ↑ Beissel. GMD in Halle . In: Bonner General-Anzeiger , June 27, 1990, p. 12.
  11. ↑ Gisela Heine: Tradition and Modernity. 50 years of the Halle State Orchestra . In: the orchestra 1/1997, p. 44.
  12. ↑ a b Jörg Clemen, Michael Willing: The Handel Hall cost 67 million marks and has been the first new concert hall to be built in the east since the fall of the Wall . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , October 17, 1998, p. 11.
  13. ↑ Katja Pausch: Conducting as a gift for the 80th In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , February 9, 2013.
  14. ↑ Thomas Kölsch: Heribert Beissel: In the service of faithfulness to the work . In: Rhein-Zeitung , March 27, 2013, p. 33.
  15. ^ WOK: Bonn conductor's daughter marries Cologne TV caretaker . In: Bonner General-Anzeiger , July 16, 2003, p. 36.
  16. ↑ LN: Cross of Merit for Beissel . In: Bonner General-Anzeiger , September 24, 1998, p. 7.
  17. ↑ Appreciation. A physicist with a lot of charisma. Professor Bethge is to receive a cup of honor . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , March 18, 2000.
  18. ↑ Beissel is now Senator for Culture . In: Rhein-Zeitung , June 12, 2004.
  19. ↑ honorary conductor Heribert Beissel , bsof.de, access: April 18, 2020th
  20. ↑ News . In: Bonner General-Anzeiger , December 7, 2012, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Beissel, Heribert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, choir director and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel