Leopold Ludwig
Leopold Ludwig (born January 12, 1908 in Witkowitz ; † April 25, 1979 in Lüneburg ) was a German conductor .
Life
Ludwig played the piano and organ as a child , then studied piano and composition in Vienna . He made his first appearance as a conductor in 1931 in Opava ; after stints in Gablonz , Teplitz-Schönau and Oldenburg , he took up a position as first conductor at the Vienna State Opera in 1939 . On April 20, 1942, Adolf Hitler appointed him Staatskapellmeister. In 1943 he worked as a conductor at the Städtische Oper Berlin . During his time in Berlin, among other things, a radio recording of Abu Hassan by Carl Maria von Weber was made in 1944 .
After the end of the Second World War , he was sentenced by a British military tribunal to one and a half years in prison with probation and a fine in April 1946 because he had concealed his membership in the NSDAP , which had existed since 1937, in the questionnaire .
After working as a guest conductor at the Städtische Oper Berlin and the Berlin State Opera , Ludwig was general music director at the Hamburg State Opera from 1951 to 1971 . His extensive repertoire encompassed works from the baroque to the modern, and he also directed various world premieres such as Der Prinz von Homburg by Hans Werner Henze (1960) or Jacobowsky and the Colonel by Giselher Klebe (1965).
Ludwig was also active internationally and made guest appearances at the Edinburgh Festival in 1952 . In 1959 he conducted the Rosenkavalier at the Glyndebourne Festival . He has also made guest appearances in Naples , Buenos Aires , Montevideo and Santiago de Chile . After his successful Hamburg Parsifal in 1968, he was appointed to the New York Metropolitan Opera , where he conducted Parsifal in 1970 .
In addition to his work as an opera conductor, he conducted concerts and recorded various records, including the 4th and 9th symphonies by Gustav Mahler .
In 1958 Leopold Ludwig was awarded the Johannes Brahms Medal in Hamburg , and in 1968 the Hamburg Senate awarded him the title of Professor.
After finishing his conducting career, Leopold Ludwig lived in retirement in Lüneburg.
literature
- Mechthild Albus: Ludwig, Leopold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 431 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Leopold Ludwig . In: Die Zeit , No. 20/1956
- Leopold Ludwig , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 23/1979 of May 28, 1979, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- All Media Guide, 2009. Answers.com Nov 12, 2009
- Discography
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 4362, see also Ernst Klee : Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 379.
- ↑ See proof in the DNB .
- ^ Programs of the Hamburg State Opera from June 15, 1960 and November 1, 1965.
- ↑ Program of the Hamburg State Opera from April 12, 1968.
- ^ All Media Guide, 2009. Answers.com Nov. 12, 2009
- ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 4362.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ludwig, Leopold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Witkowitz, |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1979 |
| Place of death | Luneburg |