Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

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Rafael Frühbeck (born September 15, 1933 in Burgos ; † June 11, 2014 in Pamplona ), known by his stage name Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , was a Spanish conductor of German origin.

Life

Rafael Frühbeck's parents were German. His father was wounded in the First World War. While he was employed after the war for the Spanish department of a German company, he settled in Spain in order to have to travel less. He later brought his German fiancée from Germany to Spain. The mother introduced the boy to playing the violin. At the age of 14 he became concertmaster of the local orchestra.

In 1959, Frühbeck married María del Carmen Martínez de Frühbeck. The marriage had two children: Rafael Frühbeck Martínez and Gema Frühbeck Martínez.

Frühbeck de Burgos studied violin , piano and composition in Bilbao , Madrid and at the Munich University of Music . He completed his conducting studies in Munich with summa cum laude .

Stations in his very long conducting career from 1958 to 2014 were Bilbao (1958–1962), Madrid (director of the Spanish National Orchestra 1962–1978), Düsseldorf and Vienna . From 1994 to 2000 he was artistic director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra . From 1992 to 1997 he was general music director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and from 2001 to 2007 he was artistic director of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai in Turin , Radiotelevisione Italiana . From the 2004 season to the 2010/2011 season, he was chief conductor and artistic director of the Dresden Philharmonic . He founded a music festival in his hometown of Burgos. Since the 2012/13 season he was chief conductor of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra , but gave up this post in June 2014 a few days before his death for health reasons.

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos was one of the most important Spanish conductors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He has made frequent guest appearances with major orchestras around the world. He had an extensive repertoire, which he mostly conducted by heart. His preference was for the repertoire of the late Romantic period ; large-scale works between Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss were most often found in his concert programs. In 1986 he conducted the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Goya in Washington.

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos made over 100 records. Some of them are classics: Mendelssohn's Elias and Paulus , Mozart's Requiem , Orff's Carmina burana , Bizet's Carmen in the original version and the complete works of his compatriot Manuel de Falla . In 2004 his first CD was released with the Dresden Philharmonic , a recording of works by Richard Strauss ( Don Quixote , Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel ).

Frühbeck de Burgos died in Pamplona in June 2014 at the age of 80 of complications from cancer.

Awards

Frühbeck de Burgos has received numerous prizes, including the Jacinto Guerrero Prize (1996), the most important Spanish music prize. He also received honorary doctorates from the University of Navarra in Pamplona (1994) and the University of Burgos (1998). In 2010, he was named Conductor Of The Year by Musical America magazine in the USA .

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  1. ↑ Chronicle of the Dresden Philharmonic ( Memento from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Dresdner Philharmonie Philharmonische Blätter April / May / June ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) PDF, accessed on April 22, 2014
  3. ↑ Søren Schauser: Syg chef dirigent i DR stopper straks. In: Berlingske of June 4, 2014 (Danish, accessed June 4, 2014).
  4. ^ Critique of the world premiere in: The New York Times, November 17, 1986
  5. ^ Spanish conductor Frühbeck de Burgos died. ( Memento from June 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Message on t-online.de from June 11, 2014 (accessed on June 11, 2014).
  6. ^ Obituary of the University of Navarre , accessed June 12, 2014
  7. ↑ Press release of the Dresden Philharmonic of November 12, 2010 ( Memento of August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ).
personal data
SURNAME Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frühbeck, Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish conductor
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgos
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2014
Place of death Pamplona