Ludwig Güttler

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Ludwig Güttler in 2015 after a concert in the Christ Church in Koblenz
Ludwig Güttler 2015 in Koblenz
Ludwig Güttler together with Volker Stegmann (center) and Friedrich Kircheis in 2016 after a concert in the Mettinger parish church of St. Agatha .
Güttler with his Corno da caccia .

Ludwig Güttler , OBE (born June 13, 1943 in Sosa in the Ore Mountains ) is a German trumpeter and conductor . He is considered one of the world's leading trumpet virtuosos .

Life

After studying with Armin Männel at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music in Leipzig , the stations of his career between 1965 and 1990 were the Handel Festival Orchestra in Halle (Saale) (1965-1969), the Dresden Philharmonic (1969-1980) and the University of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden , where he held a full professorship for trumpet. He also taught at the annual International Music Seminar in Weimar .

Since the mid-1970s, Güttler has mainly been active as a soloist and later also as a conductor at home and abroad, mainly devoting himself to the trumpet literature of the 18th century: his special focus is the high-pitched piccolo trumpet for playing parts for the actual baroque trumpet . He was also involved in the development of a modern brass instrument that was intended to play parts for the historical corno da caccia . The instrument was made by the brass instrument maker Friedbert Syhre in Leipzig.

Güttler recorded numerous trumpet concerts together with the New Bachisches Collegium Musicum under Max Pommer , and he has also enjoyed successful collaboration and concert activities with his long-time organ and harpsichord partner Friedrich Kircheis . A large number of Güttler's recordings were made by Eterna , many in coproduction with “Capriccio”, then after 1990 by Berlin Classics and recently also by Carus .

Güttler founded the Leipzig Bach Collegium in 1976 , the brass ensemble Ludwig Güttler in 1978 and the Virtuosi Saxoniae chamber orchestra in 1985 , of which he is director. He is also musical director of the “Sandstone and Music” festival in Saxon Switzerland and the “ Hitzacker Music Week ”.

Güttler is a member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts .

Awards

Stasi charge

In 1992 Güttler was confronted with allegations in the press that he had been an unofficial employee of the State Security . Accordingly, he is said to have been recruited as IM "Friedrich" in September 1979 and to have been active for the State Security until January 1983. At the time, Güttler described the contents of the files found as falsified, since the meetings recorded there were not possible in terms of time or geography according to his own handwritten documents and also for the reason that he gave concerts that were open to the public at the times specified in the files. In addition, personal details in the files were incorrect. The public prosecutor dropped a criminal complaint he had filed. It was found that the files were created by the Stasi ("The paper was real."). The Leipzig Public Prosecutor's Office was unable to issue a judgment on the veracity of the events described in the files. According to the BStU , the 266-page file is “clearly documents relating to an unofficial employee”. From 1969 to 1989 Güttler was permanently monitored by the State Security through operational processes (OV) - including operational identity control (OPK). According to the BStU, the 5000-page file is “clearly a victim file”.

Personal

Ludwig Güttler has five children, three sons, a. a. the conductor Michael Güttler , from first and two daughters from second marriage. He is married for the third time.

engagement

Dresden Frauenkirche

After German reunification , Ludwig Güttler became chairman of the Society for the Promotion of the Reconstruction of the Frauenkirche Dresden eV and curator of the Frauenkirche Foundation . In September 2007, Federal President Horst Köhler honored him with the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his commitment to the reconstruction of the Dresden Frauenkirche . On May 26, 2005 he was awarded the Saxon Constitutional Medal by the President of the State Parliament, Erich Iltgen . In November 2007, Queen Elizabeth II awarded him the Order of “Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)” of the British Order of Knights “in recognition of his services to the reconstruction of the Frauenkirche and his significant contribution” for the reconciliation of both peoples in this project Order of the British Empire awarded. Güttler gave a gala concert on his 70th birthday in Dresden's Frauenkirche.

World cultural heritage in Dresden

In 2006 and in the following years, Güttler spoke up in the Dresden bridge dispute over the Waldschlößchenbrücke by demanding that the title of World Heritage Dresden Elbe Valley be retained.

Bethel Children's Hospice

Ludwig Güttler has been the official sponsor of the Bethel Children's Hospice for dying children since January 2010 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhold Andert: Our best. The VIPs of the time of change. Berlin 1993, p. 46.
  2. ↑ Gala concert with starter trumpeter between gold and bronze. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung of October 13, 2010, accessed on September 25, 2016
  3. ↑ List of the winners of the German Stifterpreis ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stiftungen.org
  4. ↑ High state award for Prof. Ludwig Güttler on July 6, 2015, accessed on July 8, 2015.
  5. ↑ Uwe Müller / Grit Hartmann: Forward and forget! Cadres, informers and accomplices - the dangerous legacy of the SED dictatorship. Berlin 2009, pp. 173–176.
  6. ↑ Leipziger Volkszeitung: Stasi paper was real / IM files about the trumpeter Güttler. September 16, 1993
  7. ^ Ludwig Güttler: Portrait and Concert. musik-heute.de, accessed on December 2, 2018
  8. ↑ Press release from May 26, 2006: Honoring for services to the Free State - Erich Iltgen, President of the Landtag, honors seven citizens with the Saxon Constitutional Medal 2005 ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. , accessed January 24, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landtag.sachsen.de
  9. ^ Sächsische Zeitung: Queen appoints star trumpeter Ludwig Güttler as a British knight , August 27, 2007
  10. ↑ Jan Brachmann: Trumpeter for the Frauenkirche. faz.net, June 13, 2013, accessed June 16, 2013
  11. ↑ Güttler for the Dresden World Heritage and the Elbe Tunnel (YouTube, 1:19 minutes)
  12. ↑ Güttler's statement on the meeting to preserve the world heritage status of the Dresden Elbe Valley on August 8, 2006 in the Lingnerschloß
  13. ↑ Children's hospice Bethel: Ludwig Güttler supports sick children .

literature

Special newspaper articles
  • Haig Latchinian : Trumpeter Ludwig Güttler gives offspring a master class at Colditz Castle - When star trumpeter Ludwig Güttler (73) gives his master classes in Colditz , those are great moments in the still young history of the State Music Academy of Saxony : on Monday the LVZ was allowed to go behind the scenes of the The former Marstall look at Colditz Castle, in which the Free State and the Music Council have invested almost four million euros since 2010. The maestro chats about Queen and Putin, the Frauenkirche and the Escape Museum, training and imagination, harmony and feelings of happiness. Online article on lvz.de and under the heading "The great trumpeter" in: Leipziger Volkszeitung , Muldental edition, April 25, 2017, page 27 (full-page newspaper article, "Topic of the day")

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SURNAME Güttler, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Sosa