Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle

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Large hall of the permanent venue Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Halle (2020)
Former main venue Steintor-Varieté in Halle (2016)
Congress and cultural center, venue from 1995 to 1998 (2016)
Former location of the concert series "Confrontation - New Music in Conversation", the concert hall St. Ulrich Church in Halle (2009)

The Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle was a symphony orchestra in Halle (Saale) that existed from 1946 to 2006, functioned as a concert orchestra and was most recently supported by the state of Saxony-Anhalt . Due to the merger with the orchestra of the Halle Opera House , the A-Orchestra was merged into the Staatskapelle Halle in 2006 .

It was founded in 1946 by Arthur Bohnhardt as the Hall Symphony Orchestra and subsequently operated under different names. After joining the Robert-Franz-Singakademie in 1953 and Hermann Abendroth becoming an honorary conductor, it became one of three state symphony orchestras in the GDR in 1954 .

The orchestra experienced its heyday under the chief conductor of Olaf Koch , who led the Hallesche Philharmonie to national recognition in the 1970s and 1980s. The orchestra premiered several contemporary musical works . From 1979 onwards, the avant-garde ensemble Konfrontation set standards with its eponymous series. The Philharmonie has repeatedly been awarded the Handel Prize of the Halle district .

After the political change , the orchestra was elevated to a state orchestra and continued by General Music Director Heribert Beissel . Well-known orchestral conductors such as Bernhard Klee (1999/2000) and Wolf-Dieter Hauschild (2001–2004) now worked as conductors in Halle. The Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Halle was a permanent venue from 1998 .

Names

  • 1946–1949: Hall Symphony Orchestra
  • 1949–1952: State Volksorchester Sachsen-Anhalt
  • 1952–1954: State Symphony Orchestra Saxony-Anhalt
  • 1954–1972: Halle State Symphony Orchestra
  • 1972–1991: Hallesche Philharmonie
  • 1991–2006: Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle

history

Arthur Bohnhardt (1946–1949)

After the reopening of the Thalia Theater , the municipal orchestra was involved in the rehearsals of stage and orchestral works, so that the need for an entertainment orchestra arose. The second concertmaster at Halle Stadttheater , Arthur Bohnhardt , took the chance and formed a string orchestra in April 1946 , which gave its first concert in St. Laurentius Church on Good Friday . Bohnhardt then appeared with his orchestra under different names, and in July 1946 it reached a wider public for the first time as Halliches Symphony Orchestra in the courtyard of Moritzburg .

In September 1946, at a meeting of the Saxon provincial administration of the art and literature department and the municipal public education office, the social contract for the orchestra was decided. The chief conductor placed himself in the service of various political, social and cultural tasks. After the State University for Theater and Music Halle was founded , it also functioned as a university orchestra .

The first major symphony concert was held in January 1948 in the Volkspark hall . The "efforts for more recognition" went hand in hand with "political pressure", as the chronicler Susanne Baselt summarized. At the end of the year, the Deutsche Volksbühne hosted the symphony concerts. After Bohnhardt's resignation in February 1949, Kapellmeister Heinz Hofmann initially took over the management of the orchestra. In particular, Alfred Hetschko , who at the time was a music advisor in the Ministry of Education of the State of Saxony-Anhalt , initiated the change of name to the State People's Orchestra of Saxony-Anhalt at the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt .

Walter Schartner (1949/50)

In September 1949, Walter Schartner , the former music director at the Halle City Theater , took over as chief conductor. Since all the musicians had left the orchestra, the positions that had now become vacant were partially filled with additional staff from Dresden and Sondershausen . Schartner continued u. a. a seven-part Beethoven cycle on the program. With Schartner's call to Weimar, Heinz Hofmann stepped in again as acting head.

Baselt identified “direct political influence from party and state” on Schartner's successor. After Waldemar Steinhardt from Herzberg and Werner Gößling from Bielefeld had completed probationary degrees, the search committee decided on the latter.

Werner Gößling (1950–1956)

Entrance to the public park in 1956

The increased symphony concerts took place in the union clubhouse . Werner Gößling, the new chief conductor, wanted to extend the concerts to other cities in the country. In addition to the classical-romantic repertoire, contemporary works should also find their way into the program. Gößling presented the symphonic works of Bruckner . In 1951 he founded the series "Introducing an orchestra".

After the founding of a third orchestra in Halle, which was supported by the trade union and which tended to use light entertainment music, the Landes-Volksorchester Sachsen-Anhalt was able to develop into a cultural orchestra in the 1950s . From 1950 the orchestra musicians fell under the "wage and salary agreement for theater and cultural orchestras of the GDR". The guest conductors Hermann Abendroth , Helmut Seidelmann and Kurth Barth were won in the 1951/52 season. The orchestra also got involved. a. in the Eastern European cultural exchange and in Handel care.

In 1952, the Volksorchester was renamed the Symphony Orchestra. This was connected with the integration of the orchestra into the state budget . Funding was made available for concerts in the districts of Leipzig , Magdeburg and Halle . The program now also included works by modern and contemporary composers. Well-known artists such as Eva Barth , Werner Heutling and Hugo Steurer made guest appearances in Halle. From 1952, the orchestra also played regularly at the Handel Festival . The first guest appearances in Germany were made in 1953. After the dissolution of the federal states , the orchestra was placed under the council of the Halle district . In the early 1950s, the orchestra was also positively checked by the State Commission for Art Affairs and the orchestra musicians were placed in Class I of the orchestra, plus performance bonuses.

Ernst Sachsenberg was hired as the new 1st Kapellmeister in 1953. In addition to the relationship with the music academy, the orchestra maintained close contact with the church music school in Halle. In the 1953/54 season, the Robert-Franz-Singakademie was connected and the Landes-Sinfnieorchester rose to become a State Symphony Orchestra, so that there should now be three of this type in the GDR: Gotha , Schwerin and Halle. In addition, Hermann Abendroth was appointed honorary conductor after another guest conductor. Furthermore, Beethoven's 9th Symphony was played regularly at the turn of the year and the so-called Estradenkonzerte were introduced . In October 1953 the orchestra inaugurated the House of Friendship in Schkopau.

In the 1954/55 season the State Symphony Orchestra received its own music dramaturge, the musicologist Herbert Koch . Well-known musicians from Northern Europe such as Nils-Eric Fougstedt and Vibeke Warlev were invited. The next season awaited with the equally important soloists Brünnhild Friedland , Hélène Boschi , Hugo Steurer, Ingeborg Robiller-Roloff , Dieter Zechlin , Helga Hussels , Egon Morbitzer , Vittorio Brero , Karl Suske and Mirko Dorner .

Horst Förster (1956–1964)

Clubhouse of the trade unions during the Handel ceremony in 1959

In 1956 the orchestra received a new chief conductor ( Horst Förster ) and a new first conductor ( Karl-Ernst Sasse ). Some musicians left the orchestra for the Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra . The 1956/57 season brought about the new concert series “Musica viva”, in which foreign composers such as Darius Milhaud , Kurt Atterberg , Dmitri Kabalewski and Grażyna Bacewicz were also performed. The rights concerts at the Halle-Kröllwitz Pedagogical Institute , however, met with little public response. Well-known guest conductors such as Otto Ebel von Sosen , Alois Klíma and Heinz Bongartz came to Halle for special concerts.

The State Symphony Orchestra celebrated its tenth anniversary in 1956 as part of the Hallische Musiktage , in which the ensemble has repeatedly participated since 1955. In addition, they took part in the concert series “ House Music in the Handel House ”. In 1957 the State Symphony Orchestra toured West Germany. At the end of the 1950s there was also an increase in the number of performers from Eastern European countries ( Miloš Sádlo , Stanislav Knor , Josef Hrnčíř , Ilja Temkoff and others). In addition, the cycle "Masterful Works of the Nations" offered an insight into European music creation.

In 1959 Harald Unger was appointed 1st Kapellmeister. In 1961 the orchestra took part in the 1000th anniversary of the city of Halle. It also celebrated its fifteenth anniversary. In 1962 the orchestra made a guest appearance in Czechoslovakia . A friendship agreement was signed with the symphony orchestra in Karlsbad . After Förster's departure, Gerhart Wiesenhütter and Karl-Ernst Sasse were seen as promising candidates for his successor.

Karl-Ernst Sasse (1964–1967)

The decision was finally made on the former Förster's deputy, Karl-Ernst Sasse . But this was not very successful in its program planning and a. the positively received chamber music rights with Rudi Zücker and Horst Uhlig were not continued. In addition, Sasse did not maintain sufficient contact with the Robert-Franz-Singakademie. The orchestra also did not participate in the Handel Festival from 1965 to 1967. Although the orchestra board wanted to make Unger music director, his contract was not extended. In 1967 he was followed by Joachim Seidel as 1st Kapellmeister.

Olaf Koch (1967–1990)

Reconstructed rehearsal house of the Hallische Philharmonie in Grosse Gosenstrasse 12 (2016)

In 1967 Olaf Koch replaced Sasse as chief conductor. Hartmut Haenchen took over the position of choirmaster at the Singakademie a year earlier . In 1969 Karl-Heinz Zettl became 1st Kapellmeister and deputy chief conductor. With this new management team it has now been possible to lure the audience back into the concert halls. To this end, the rights concerts were expanded and the Handel Festival took part again. In addition to musical modernism, Koch placed a focus on contemporary music from the GDR and the Soviet Union. There were works that “could not really be classified in the demands of ' socialist realism '”. Works by Western composers were also performed. From 1969 onwards there were public discussions with working people about the concert plans. For example, the rights concerts in the “Marx-Engels” clubhouse in Zeitz were expanded. In 1970, so-called “workers' youth concerts” were established, which were known as “youth symphony concerts” after the fall of the Wall. But also school concerts were maintained.

In 1972 the State Symphony Orchestra, the Robert-Franz-Singakademie and the Stadtsingechors merged to form the Halle Philharmonic . In 1979 Hans-Jürgen Wenzel founded the concert series “Confrontation - New Music in Conversation”, which had its home in the concert hall of the St. Ulrich Church and partly in the new theater .

At the end of 1989 Olaf Koch was voted out of office by the orchestra musicians in the Pobenhaus at Grosse Gosenstrasse 12. In 1990 he gave his last concert at the Handel Festival. The culture editor Gisela Heine wrote at the time in the Liberal-Demokratie Zeitung Halle : “In Olaf Koch I always saw the great conductor, who over the course of 23 years has developed the Hallesche Philharmonie into a world-class ensemble. [...] I knew from musicians and from my own experience that Olaf Koch could be quite a disgust. [...] What was happening in the background barely reached the public. "

Heribert Beissel (1990–1999)

Then the conductor Heribert Beissel , who feels particularly dedicated to Viennese classical music and who came from Hamburg, was elected to his office. In 1991 he was appointed general music director , and the Hallische Philharmonie was transferred to a state orchestra . In the same year the Society of Friends of the Halleschen Philharmonie eV was founded, supported by a board of trustees under Hans-Dietrich Genscher .

Beissel was the first Kapellmeister to support Oliver Pohl from 1990 to 1993 and Marc Piollet from 1993 to 1997 . The symphony concerts of the Philharmonic State Orchestra were initially held in the Steintor-Varieté until the restoration . The opera house and the Ulrichskirche concert hall were also used. From 1995 to 1998 the hall of the congress and culture center served as a temporary venue. In 1998 Beissel inaugurated the Great Hall of the Georg-Friedrich-Handel-Halle in the northern city center , the orchestra's first permanent venue. In addition, concerts were held in the auditorium of the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg (“Viennese Classic”), in the new theater (“Baroque Music”) and in the Galerie Moritzburg (“New Music” with the Konfrontation ensemble) . There was also a popular symphonic series called “Bella Musica”. The cathedral and the Moritzkirche were available for special and choir concerts . Last but not least, the Handel House was used for chamber music and the Freylinghausen Hall for baroque matinees, as well as the Domplatz and the courtyard of the Handel House for open-air concerts. During Beissel's general music directorate, the orchestra a. a. in Argentina, Spain and Austria.

After Beissel's tenure ended, Bernhard Klee took over a permanent guest conductor in Halle in 1999/2000 .

Wolf-Dieter Hauschild (2001-2004)

From 2001 to 2004 Wolf-Dieter Hauschild was chief conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle. He planned a combined program of modern and classical music including an integrated jazz concert and a concert opera performance . Hauschild then left the orchestra prematurely because of the threatened merger with the orchestra of the Halle Opera House .

Heribert Esser (2004-2005)

The last chief conductor was Heribert Esser from 2004 , who transferred the orchestra to the new concert and theater orchestra, Staatskapelle Halle .

Chief conductor

Hermann Abendroth was made an honorary conductor in 1953.

World premieres (selection)

Chamber music ensembles

  • Camerata da camera Halle - a baroque ensemble founded by Harald Unger , which appeared in public from 1962 to 1966 a. a. in the Moritzburg
  • In 1973 Olaf Koch founded a chamber orchestra , the direction of which was taken over by Karl-Heinz Zettl in 1984 and which focused on the music of the 18th century, especially with Georg Friedrich Handel ; Concert tours have also taken the ensemble to western countries
  • There was also a string quartet , a wind quintet and a wind chamber music association
  • In 1979, Hans Jürgen Wenzel founded the Konfrontation ensemble , which specializes in new music and was involved in the Handel Festival and the Halle Music Festival from 1983; in 1989 it was used by Thomas Müller continued

Awards

literature

  • Susanne Baselt: Chronicle of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . Part I: 1946 to 1964 . Published by the management of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle, Halle (Saale) 1999.
  • Gisela Heine: The Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . G. Heine, Halle (Saale) 1997.
  • Gisela Heine: tradition and modernity. 50 years of the Halle State Orchestra . In: the orchestra 1/1997, p. 44.
  • Konstanze Musketa : Music history of the city of Halle: Guide through the exhibition of the Handel House . Handel House, Halle an der Saale 1998, ISBN 3-910019-13-7 , pp. 82f., 86, 107f.
  • Gilbert Stöck: New music in the districts of Halle and Magdeburg during the GDR. Compositions, politics, institutions . Schröder, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-926196-50-7 , p. 247ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

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