Klauspeter Seibel

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Klauspeter Seibel (born May 7, 1936 in Offenbach am Main , † January 8, 2011 in Hamburg ) was a German conductor .

He was general music director of the cities of Kiel and Freiburg. As chief conductor, he led the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans. He made regular guest appearances at the Semperoper Dresden , the Hamburg State Opera , the Vienna State Opera and the New Orleans Opera and was President of the Gustav Mahler Association , Hamburg.

Stations

Klauspeter Seibel made music and composed as a child. In addition to attending the humanistic grammar school, he was trained as a pianist until he was 18. He then completed musical training at the Nuremberg Municipal Conservatory (1948–1956) and at the Munich Conservatory (1956–1958) - in the subjects of piano with Rosl Schmid , composition with Karl Höller, and conducting with Kurt Eichhorn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing . He gained particular interest in music theater through an internship at the Munich Gärtnerplatztheater, where he was hired as a solo coach a year later. He jumped with 21 years as a conductor for Carl Millöckers operetta Gasparone and immediately received then La Périchole of Jacques Offenbach first own debut as a conductor.

Seibel's career began in 1957 as Kapellmeister at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich, where he stayed for six years. He also directed the Wilde Gungl , an orchestra known in the Munich area. From 1963 to 1965 he held the same position at the Freiburg Opera.

Then he became first Kapellmeister from 1965 in Lübeck , from 1967 in Kassel and from 1971 in Frankfurt am Main , before he was appointed General Music Director of the Freiburg Municipal Theaters in 1975 .

In 1978 he went to the Hamburg State Opera as first conductor and deputy Christoph von Dohnányis . There he took over the conducting class and the orchestra of the University of Music and Theater . In addition, from 1980 to 1988 he was chief conductor of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra.

In 1987 he became general music director of the state capital Kiel and remained associated with the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kiel theaters for the next eight years. In addition, from 1997 to 1999 he was chief conductor of the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra and interim director of the opera .

After conducting several American orchestras since the early 1940s, he was elected Music Director of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in 1995 . After nine seasons as chief conductor until 2005 he was the orchestra's principal guest conductor until his death.

In addition to his active work as a conductor, Seibel devoted himself to educating the next generation for over two decades. Many of his students, u. a. Michael Boder , Detlev Müller-Siemens , Ulf Schirmer and Carlos Spierer , find themselves in leading positions in German musical life.

Awards

literature

  • Alain Pâris : Lexicon of Classical Music Performers in the 20th Century. From the French by Rudolf Kimmig. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-7618-3291-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Opera conductor Seibel died at the age of 74. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 12, 2011, archived from the original on January 17, 2011 .;
  2. ↑ Klauspeter Seibel, the first music director of the LPO, dies. In: The Times-Picayune . January 10, 2011 .;
  3. ^ Biography ( memento from January 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on: University of Music and Theater Hamburg
personal data
SURNAME Seibel, Klauspeter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2011
Place of death Hamburg