Neville Marriner

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The conductor Neville Marriner in a recording by Werner Bethsold .
Neville Marriner (2010)

Sir Neville Marriner , CH , CBE (born April 15, 1924 in Lincoln , England , † October 2, 2016 in London ) was a British conductor and violinist .

Life

At the age of 13, Marriner studied violin at the Royal College of Music in London and later at the Paris Conservatory . From 1950 to 1959 he was professor of violin at London's Royal College of Music. From 1952 he was a violinist with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO).

In 1958 he founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields chamber orchestra with twelve colleagues from the LSO . The name was borrowed from the baroque church of St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square , where the Academy musicians were allowed to give concerts after the evening service. The first few years were difficult, especially when it came to finances. In 1970 Marriner's recording of Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons was released . Since then he and his musicians have celebrated one success after another. He recorded numerous works with his orchestra.

From 1969 to 1979 Marriner was conductor of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra , then until 1986 music director of the Minnesota Orchestra . From 1983 to 1989 he directed the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk . In 1984 the Academy of St Martin in the Fields recorded the score for Amadeus under his direction .

For his musical merits, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him Commander of the British Empire in 1975 . Through the accolade in 1985 he was Knight Bachelor . From 1990 he worked as a freelance conductor in Europe and the USA . In 2015 he became a member of the Order of the Companions of Honor . He last lived with his second wife Molly on his estate near Axminster in Devon.

He was the father of the clarinetist Andrew Marriner (* 1954). Neville Marriner died on October 2nd, 2016 three days after his last concert in Padua .

Commemoration

The musician should have conducted a concert with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on October 4, 2016 in the Wiener Musikverein . The ensemble decided to give this concert under the direction of their concertmaster Tomo Keller and dedicate it to the memory of its founder and "beloved Sir Neville Marriner". After the Hebrides Overture by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was not applauded, the audience rose for a minute's silence. Then Beethoven's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major op. 61 and Mozart's Symphony in E flat major KV 543 were played, the soloist was Julia Fischer . The concert was recorded by ORF and broadcast all over the world.

literature

  • Christian Tyler: Making Music: Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Unicorn Press, Norwich, 2009, ISBN 978-1-906509-04-0 .

Web links

Commons : Neville Marriner  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leading British conductor Sir Neville Marriner dies at 92nd BBC , October 2, 2016 (English).
  2. ↑ The Four Seasons, Argo ZRG 654 ( details here )
  3. ↑ Amadeus soundtrack on the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields website.
  4. ↑ conductor Neville Marriner has died. Zeit Online , October 2, 2016, accessed October 3, 2016 .
  5. ^ Wolfram Goertz: Visit to Neville Marriner: At home with the maestro. Rheinische Post , 5./6. September 2015, p. E1, accessed October 2, 2016.
  6. ^ Bernhard Neuhoff: On the death of Sir Neville Marriner: Mourning for British conductors. Bayerischer Rundfunk , October 2, 2016, accessed on October 2, 2016 .
  7. ^ ORF : Matinee , accessed on October 23, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Marriner, Neville
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British conductor and violinist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Lincoln , England
DATE OF DEATH October 2nd, 2016
Place of death London