Max Thurn

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Max Thurn (born October 27, 1897 - † July 22, 1969 ) was a German conductor . Among other things, he worked as a choirmaster at the Hamburg State Opera and is a co-founder of the boys' choir of the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR).

Life

Max Thurn grave , Ohlsdorf

Max Thurn was choirmaster at the Hamburg State Opera from 1946 to 1965 . From 1953 he recorded a large number of cantatas for the NDR program with his opera choir, the NDR symphony orchestra and various nationally known vocal soloists (such as Erich Wenk , Lotte Wolf-Matthäus , Hans Joachim Rotzsch , Margot Guilleaume , Ursula Zollenkopf ) Johann Sebastian Bach's . The mono recordings are now rarely broadcast due to their outmoded style.

In 1960, Thurn founded the NDR boys' choir together with Horst Sellentin . He also took over the choir rehearsals for numerous recordings. His radio recordings were later published on records and CDs, e. E.g. Tosca's complete recording of Ariola from 1953 with Rudolf Schock (1981) or the Lohengrin performance recorded in the same year , in which Gottlob Frick participated in addition to Schock (1995).

Despite its historical importance, especially for the reproduction of Bach's cantatas (approx. 80 recordings from 1953 to 1962 on NDR), Max Thurn's work is almost forgotten today.

Max Thurn found her final resting place in the Hamburg cemetery Ohlsdorf , grid square Bk 64 (southeast of chapel 12).

Discography

conductor

  • I am just a poor wanderer; Künneke, Eduard. - Hamburg: Fonoteam; Hamburg: BMG Ariola Hamburg, Sales, 1986

Choir rehearsal

  • Lohengrin; Wagner, Richard. - Cologne: EMI-Electrola, 1995
  • Rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny; Weill, Kurt. - Frankfurt (Main): CBS records, 1988
  • Highlights from La Traviata; Verdi, Giuseppe. - Hamburg: carousel; Hamburg: Polygram Music Distribution, 1986
  • In front of my father's house; Hamburg: Fonoteam; Hamburg: RCA records, 1982
  • Fra Diavolo; Auber, Daniel-François-Esprit. - Munich: BMG Ariola Munich, 1982
  • Tosca; Puccini, Giacomo. - Gütersloh, Munich: Ariola-Eurodisc, 1981
  • The power of destiny; Verdi, Giuseppe. - Gütersloh, Munich: Ariola-Eurodisc, 1981

literature

  • Wilhelm Kosch: German Theater Lexicon. Biographical and bibliographical manual. Klagenfurt [u. a.]: Kleinmayr [u. a.], 1953-1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Celebrity Graves
personal data
SURNAME Thurn, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1897
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1969