Horst Seeger
Horst Seeger (born November 6, 1926 in Erkner ; † January 2, 1999 in Dresden ; pseudonym: Horst Schell ) was a German musicologist , music critic , dramaturge , author and artistic director .
Life
Seeger studied musicology at the Humboldt University in Berlin with Walter Vetter, Ernst Hermann Meyer and Hans-Heinz Dräger and from 1954 worked as a music journalist and critic. From 1959 to 1960 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Musik und Gesellschaft . 1960–1973 he was chief dramaturge at the Komische Oper . In 1973 he took over the management of the Dresden State Opera in the building of the Schauspielhaus and since 1979 also the management of the Saxon State Theater . Seeger brought directors like Harry Kupfer and Ruth Berghaus and conductors like Herbert Blomstedt to Dresden. He made great contributions to the reconstruction of the Semperoper.
Fonts
Non-fiction
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. VEB German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1956.
- Small music lexicon. Henschelverlag , Berlin 1958.
- Biographical news from Joseph Haydn. Bärenreiter-Verlag , Kassel 1964.
- Music lexicon in two volumes. VEB German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1966.
- We and the music. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1968.
- with U. Bökel: How strong is not your magic tone. Children's book publisher Berlin , Berlin 1974.
- Opera lexicon. 3rd, extended edition, extended new edition (licensed edition by Henschel Verlag Kunst und Gesellschaft, Berlin. - Edition for the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin (West), Austria and Switzerland), Heinrichshofen books. Florian Noetzel Verlage, Wilhelmshaven 1987, ISBN 3-7959-0271-1 .
- The big song chest. Publishing house Faber & Faber , Leipzig 1997.
Libretti
- Lazarillo vom Tormes , opera by Siegfried Matthus , Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1964
- The double , ballet by Fritz Geißler
- Baroque concert by Günther Fischer
- 1963: Knight Bluebeard with Walter Felsenstein based on the original by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
- 1966: Don Giovanni with Walter Felsenstein based on the original by Lorenzo Da Ponte
literature
- Siegfried Matthus: Never tired, obsessed with the opera - On the death of Horst Seeger. In: Berliner Zeitung , January 5, 1999; obituary
Individual evidence
- ↑ Opern-Lexikon , 3rd, extended edition, extended new edition (licensed edition of the Henschel Verlag Kunst und Gesellschaft, Berlin - edition for the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin (West), Austria and Switzerland), Wilhelmshaven: Noetzel, Heinrichshofen-Bücher, 1987.
Web links
- Literature by and about Horst Seeger in the catalog of the German National Library
Wolf Adolf August von Lüttichau (1824–1862) | Nikolaus Graf von Seebach (1894–1919) | Alfred Reucker (1921–1933) | Paul Adolph (1933-1935) | Horst Seeger (1973–1983) | Gerd Schönfelder (1984–1990) | Christoph Albrecht (1991-2003) | Gerd Uecker (2003-2010) | Ulrike Hessler (2010–2012) | Serge Dorny (2013–2014) | Peter Theiler (from 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seeger, Horst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schell, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musicologist, dramaturge and artistic director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erkner |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 2, 1999 |
| Place of death | Dresden |