Leipzig Consort

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The Leipzig Consort was a well-known chamber music ensemble from the GDR .

history

The ensemble was founded in 1982. Members were on the one hand Axel Schmidt ( oboe ), Matthias Sannemüller ( viola ) and Dieter Zahn ( double bass ). You were solo musician in the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra (today: MDR Symphony Orchestra ) and a member of the Hanns Eisler New Music group . Furthermore, Roland Zimmer ( guitar ) and later Thomas Blumenthal (guitar) were his successors.

They dedicated themselves to baroque music and new music . In particular, they premiered works by Reiner Bredemeyer , Georg Katzer , Friedrich Schenker , Günter Neubert , Karl Ottomar Treibmann , Manfred Schubert and Thomas Müller . The Leipzig Consort gave guest concerts in many European countries; numerous radio productions were documented.

The group broke up in the early 1990s. Sannemüller and Blumenthal founded the Sortisatio ensemble in 1992 .

literature

  • Manfred Vetter: Chamber music in the GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main 1996, ISBN 3-631-30257-6 , p. 194 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Sannemüller's biography ( memento of the original from August 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Orchestra Center NRW @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.orchesterzentrum.de
  2. ↑ Encounters with the guitarist and music teacher Prof. Roland Zimmer ( Memento from July 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.19 MB)