Mark Fridrichowitsch Ermler

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Mark Ermler ( Russian Марк Фридрихович Эрмлер , scientific transliteration Mark Fridrichovič Ėrmler ; born May 5, 1932 in Leningrad ; † April 14, 2002 in Seoul ) was a Russian conductor .

Life

Mark Ermler grew up in Leningrad. His mother was the production designer Vera Bakun, and his father, the film director Friedrich Ermler , was just finishing the film Counterplan ( Встречный ), for which Dmitri Shostakovich had written the music , in 1932, the year his son Mark was born. Mark Ermler, inspired by the concerts of the orchestra leader Yevgeny Mrawinski , strove for a conducting career. From 1950 to 1956, he studied at the Leningrad Conservatory with Nikolai Semjonowitsch Rabinowitsch (1908–1972) and conducting with Boris Chaikin . He made his debut as a conductor in 1952 as a student with the Leningrad Philharmonic , and conducted his first opera in 1953 with Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail . In 1955 he became a member of the ensemble at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and was there for the first time in 1957 at the conductor's podium at Cavalleria rusticana . In 1960 he directed the first public and staged performance of Sergei Prokofiev's opera The Story of Real People there . In 1964 he conducted his first ballets with Igor Stravinsky's Firebird and Petrushka .

As a permanent conductor at the Bolshoi Theater, Ermler directed opera and ballet recordings and toured all of Europe, North America and Japan with the ensemble. He made his UK debut in 1974 when the Bolshoi Ballet performed at the London Coliseum . At the same time, Ermler was increasingly engaged as a guest conductor. In 1978 he was engaged for the first time at the Vienna State Opera , where he conducted Boris Godunow and Don Carlos . In 1980, Ermler made his debut at the Welsh National Opera with Eugene Onegin . In 1986 he made his debut with Carmen at Covent Garden in London - there he was a permanent guest conductor until 1995 and during this time he recorded all Tchaikovsky ballets with the orchestra . Guest conductors followed a. a. at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires , at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich , at the Seattle Opera, the Royal Opera in Stockholm , the Opéra Bastille in Paris , at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona as well as in Canada, Scotland, Austria, Italy and Israel.

Ermler was "one of the last representatives of the old Russian school". In his decades of activity as a conductor at the Bolshoi Theater, which he held until 1989, Ermler directed over 2000 opera and ballet performances and developed a repertoire of more than 50 operas. His discography with recordings for example with Melodija and EMI includes a. a. around 20 opera recordings. In addition, Ermler worked with the Russian State Symphony Cinema Orchestra from 1956 to 1996 as a conductor on more than 30 films.

From 1996 to 1998 he was chief conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra . In 1998 he returned to the Bolshoi Theater and worked there until 2000 as music director and chief conductor. He also taught at the Moscow Conservatory . In 2000 he became chief conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra in South Korea . He died there on April 14, 2002 after an orchestra rehearsal. His tomb is in the Vagankovo ​​Cemetery in Moscow.

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annotation

  1. ↑ The Russian sources as well as LCCN and BNF give April 14th 2002 as the date of death, in isolated cases April 13th is also found, New Grove and MGG mention April 12th.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c David Nice: Mark Ermler. Conductor famed for work with the Bolshoi. In: The Guardian . April 23, 2002 (English, obituary).;
  2. ↑ Short biography in: Музыкальная энциклопедия (Russian)
  3. ↑ a b c d Martin Elste :  Ermler, Mark. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 6 (Eames - Franco). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1116-0  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  4. ↑ a b c d e David Mermelstein, Richard Wigmore:  Ermler, Mark. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  5. ↑ a b Mark Ermler. In: The Telegraph . April 22, 2002 (English, obituary).;
  6. ↑ Performances with Mark Ermler in the: Schedule Archive of the Vienna State Opera
  7. ↑ a b И. Н. Парфёнова: Ermler, Mark Fridrichowitsch . In: Большая российская энциклопедия (Russian)
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Biography on: kino-teatr (Russian)
  9. ↑ a b c d biography of Mark Ermler (1932–2002). In: bolshoi.ru. 2008, archived from the original on January 4, 2009 (Russian).;
  10. ^ A b Rolf Fath: Operas and orchestras by Mark Ermler. From the Melodiya cellars. In: Opera Lounge. 2015 .;
  11. ↑ The Russian State Symphony Cinema Orchestra (English)
  12. ↑ Mark Ermler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  13. ↑ Biography in: Энциклопедия "Отечество" (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Ermler, Mark Fridrichowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ermler, Mark; Эрмлер, Марк Фридрихович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2002
Place of death Seoul , South Korea