Peter Maag

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Ernst Peter Johannes Maag (born May 10, 1919 in St. Gallen ; † April 16, 2001 in Verona ) was a Swiss conductor .

life and work

Peter Maag was Principal Conductor of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf from 1952 to 1955, then General Music Director of the Bonn Opera for four seasons . In 1959 he made his debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Mozart's Magic Flute and at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera with Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro . In the same year he made his first guest appearance in the USA - with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra . In 1961 he made his debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago with Mozart's Così fan tutte , and in 1962 at the Salzburg Festival with Mozart's Idomeneo .

From 1964 to 1968 Peter Maag was chief conductor of the Vienna Volksoper , in 1972 he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera with Mozart's Don Giovanni and in the same year was appointed artistic director of the Teatro Regio di Parma . From 1974 he was chief conductor at the Teatro Regio di Torino , then with the RAI Symphony Orchestra (Turin) and the Orquesta Nacional de España . He was music director of the Bern Symphony Orchestra from 1984 to 1991 and chief conductor of the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto from 1983 to 2001. He has also made guest appearances in opera houses and concert halls around the world.

Peter Maag has a son, the children's book author Georg Maag . Maag's first wife was Jasmina Božin, a Bosnian set designer. He has a daughter with his second wife Marica Franchi (Marika).

Awards

  • 1968 Toscanini Medal
  • 1973 Verdi Medal
  • 1975 Toscanini Presentation Baton

literature

  • Martin Anderson: Peter Maag. In: The Independent , August 2, 2001.
  • Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians . Schirmer, New York 2001.
  • Ingrid Bigler-Marschall: Peter Maag . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1150.
  • Paul Griffiths: Peter Maag, 81, Conductor With a Fondness for Mozart. In: The New York Times , April 20, 2001. online
  • John L. Holmes: Conductors on Record . Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 1982.
  • Peter Maag. In: The Telegraph , April 18, 2001. online
  • Peter Maag: Swiss Conductor Known as Specialist in Mozart. In: Los Angeles Times , April 25, 2001. online

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personal data
SURNAME Maag, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maag, Ernst Peter Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss conductor
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2001
Place of death Verona