Hermann Dechant

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Hermann Dechant (born November 29, 1939 in Vienna ) is an Austrian conductor , flautist , musicologist , composer and music publisher .

Portrait of Hermann Dechant

Career

Dechant was born as the son of the architect and sculptor Oskar Dechant in Vienna-Meidling . After graduating from high school, he studied flute (with Aurèle Nicolet at the University of Music in Berlin ) and conducting at the State Academy for Music and Performing Arts Vienna as well as musicology with Erich Schenk , theater studies with Heinz Kindermann , philosophy and history at the University of Vienna . He continued his university studies from 1968 to 1973 and studied musicology with Wolfgang Osthoff ( University of Würzburg ) and Hermann Beck at the University of Regensburg , where he received his doctorate in 1975. From 1962 to 1966 he studied orchestral conducting with Hanns Reinartz in Würzburg. In 1968 he passed the state examination for composition with Günter Bialas .

From 1960 to 1973 he was solo flutist with Joseph Keilberth and Eugen Jochum with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and performed with the orchestra in 73 countries. From 1964 to 1971 Dechant worked at the ETA-Hoffmann-Theater in Bamberg as head of incidental music. This led to the collaboration with Gerd Gutbier, Heinrich Böll , Bruno Magnoni and many others. He also became director of the Musica Cantorey Bamberg , an ensemble that primarily performed music from the period between 1450 and 1650 in historical performance practice (numerous radio and recordings).

From 1968 Dechant was director of studies of the Federal Youth Orchestra of the Federal Republic of Germany and from 1972 director of the Federal Chamber Music Courses Jugend musiziert . In 1973 Dechant was appointed to the University of Music in Würzburg as head of the university orchestra and a conducting class (professor). From 1985 to 1999 Dechant directed the Bamberg Oratorio Choir , founded the youth orchestra there and held professorships in Austria and Thailand . In 1993 he directed the world premiere of an opera buffa by Goethe in the Liebhabertheater der Frau von Stein in Schloss Kochberg , set to music by Philipp Christoph Kayser ( Scherz, List und Rache , 1787).

Dechant currently works together with his wife, the pianist Margit Haider-Dechant ( Anton Bruckner Private University Linz), as the director of a music publishing house in Bonn. He is the author of numerous academic articles and books, particularly on the history of conducting and the history of music for wind instruments. He has also emerged as the author of numerous encyclopedia articles and editor of opera scores in the memorial editions and is also active as a musician and arranger.

Publications

Compositions (selection)

  • Vocal music: various songs, choirs and cantatas; 28 stage music for the Bamberg Theater.
  • Instrumental music: Div. Works for orchestra and for chamber music ensembles in various scoring.

Recordings as a conductor (selection)

  • Hans Pfitzner & Joseph Haydn : Cello Concerts . Violoncello: Esther Nyffenegger , Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra .
  • Florian Leopold Gassmann : The young countess / La contessina. Opera buffa in three acts after Carlo Goldoni et al. (Contributors: J. Pichler, E. Mayer, K. Köller, B. Eisschiel, S. Ganglberger, H. Diller); Collegium Praga Aurea; Bayer Records, P 1995
  • ETA Hoffmann : Aurora , great romantic opera in three acts by Franz von Holbein . (World premiere recording). Apollon 1995 (with H. Ohlmann, E. Meier, W. Koch. Bamberg Youth Orchestra).
  • ETA Hoffmann: Undine . Romantic magic opera in three acts (with: J. Beck, M. Albert, M. Hiefinger, H. Plesch, U. Bosch, B. Hofmann, A. Schamberger, C. Tippe, B. Baier; Oratorio Choir and Bamberg Youth Orchestra) . Bayer Records, 1995

Books and editions (selection)

  • ETA Hoffmann's opera Aurora (Regensburg Contributions to Musicology, Vol. 2) Regensburg 1975.
  • Aria and ensemble. On the history of the development of the opera . Scientific Book Society Darmstadt, Vol. 1., 1600–1800, 1993, 229 pp.
  • Dean u. W. Sieber (Ed.): Commemorative Hermann Beck. Laaber 1982.
  • Conduct. On the theory and practice of music interpretation . Vienna / Freiburg i. Breisgau / Basel 1985.

Editions and arrangements (selection)

  • Ignaz Aßmayer : Masses in D and C, score and performance material, Vienna: Apollon Musikoffizin
  • Johann Sebastian Bach : Violin Concertos in D minor, D major, A major, F minor, Vienna: Apollon Musikoffizin 2000 (Ed. Together with Takaya Urakawa)
  • FL Gassmann: La contessina. Opera buffa in three acts based on Carlo Goldoni and others Vienna: Apollon Musikoffizin 1999.
  • ETA Hoffmann: Aurora. Great romantic opera . Libretto by Holbein ( Monuments of Music in Bavaria , NF, Vol. 5). Breitkopf & Härtel 1984 (score)
  • Philipp Christoph Kayser : Joke, cunning and revenge . Singspiel in four acts. First edition (class A.) based on the original text by H. Dechant. Vienna: Apollon Musikoffizin 1999. XXVII, 464 pp.
  • Franz Krommer : Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 61 (score, first edition by H. Dechant). Vienna: Apollon Musikoffizin, 2003.
  • Joseph Weigl : The Swiss family . Singspiel (score, first edition by H. Dechant, in preparation for the DTÖ)
  • Joseph Woelfl : The Höllenberg . Great heroic-comic opera by Schikaneder (score, first edition and reconstruction of the libretto by H. Dechant). Vienna: Apollon Musikoffizin, 2010 (and three other operas by Woelfl)

Honors

  • 1958 Grand Prize of the State Academy for Music and Performing Arts Vienna
  • 1971 Composition Prize of the City of Hof for the songs of the night
  • 1992 Culture Prize of the City of Bamberg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Dechant: ETA Hoffmanns opera Aurora . Dissertation University of Regensburg 1975.
  2. ↑ Activity as the publishing director of the Apollon Musikoffizin in Bonn .
personal data
SURNAME Dean, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor, flautist and music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna