Kurt Redel
Kurt Redel (born October 8, 1918 in Breslau ; † February 12, 2013 in Munich ) was a German flautist and conductor .
Life
Redel studied orchestral conducting, flute, violin, composition and music history at the Wroclaw Conservatory. In 1938 he became principal flutist in the Meiningen Landeskapelle . In the same year, at the age of twenty, he received a professorship for flute at the Salzburg Mozarteum . In 1941 he went to Munich as a solo flutist with the Bavarian State Orchestra. From 1946 to 1956 he taught as a professor for flute at the Northwest German Music Academy , today's Detmold University of Music . Karlheinz Zöller and Paul Meisen were among his students .
In 1952, Redel founded the Collegium Pro Arte chamber orchestra in Munich , with which he gave numerous concerts and made award-winning recordings, especially the works of Bach , Telemann , Haydn and Mozart . For twenty years he directed the Lourdes Easter Festival, which he founded , and also worked with many important orchestras in Europe. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Grand Prix du Disque , the Prix Orphée of the Paris Opera , the Grand Prix Edison in Amsterdam and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class.
Kurt Redel's son is the composer Martin Christoph Redel (* 1947).
Web links
- Uwe Marcus Magnus Rykov: The conductor Kurt Redel , on Zeitblatt.com (accessed on May 22, 2019)
- Works by and about Kurt Redel in the catalog of the German National Library
literature
Kurt Redel and Joachim Kaiser: Beat the beat or conduct? : Principles of Conducting , 2005, Publisher: Ricordi, ISBN 978-3-931788-29-2
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Redel, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German flautist and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 2013 |
| Place of death | Munich |