Karl Leister
Karl Leister (born June 15, 1937 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German clarinetist .
Life
Karl Leister received his first clarinet lessons from his father, who was a member of the Rias Symphony Orchestra in Berlin as a clarinetist . From 1953 to 1956 he studied with Heinrich Geuser at the Hochschule für Musik Berlin and in 1957 became principal clarinetist at the Komische Oper Berlin under Václav Neumann . In 1959 he became principal clarinetist with the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan . At the same time his international career as a soloist a . a. under the direction of Karl Böhm , Seiji Ozawa , Eugen Jochum , Rafael Kubelík , Aaron Copland , Neville Marriner , Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and Herbert von Karajan. As a chamber musician , he worked with Wilhelm Kempff , Pierre Fournier , Gidon Kremer , Rita Streich , Kathleen Battle , the Amadeus Quartet , the Leipzig String Quartet , the Artis Quartet and the Vogler Quartet as well as with the pianists James Levine , Riccardo Muti , Gerhard Oppitz , Christoph Eschenbach , Elena Bashkirova , Elisabeth Leonskaja and Paul Gulda . In 1993 he left the Berlin Philharmonic.
Karl Leister has been teaching at the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic since 1972 and organizing international master classes . One of his students was the Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä . From 1993 to 2002 Karl Leister was a professor at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin .
literature
- Berliner Philharmoniker: Variations with Orchestra - 125 Years of the Berliner Philharmoniker , Volume 2, Biographies and Concerts, Verlag Henschel, May 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-568-8
Web links
- Works by and about Karl Leister in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karl Leister at allmusic.com
- Christine Lemke-Matwey : The Dahlemer feeling , Der Tagesspiegel for Karl Leister's 70th birthday
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clarinet and Poetry ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 296 kB), Masterclass for clarinet at Die Holzbläser GmbH on October 9 and 10, 2010
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| SURNAME | Leister, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German clarinetist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilhelmshaven |