Reichs Bruckner Orchestra (Linz)
The Reichs-Bruckner-Orchester was a Reichsorchester des Großdeutschen Rundfunk in Linz from 1942 to 1945 . It was particularly committed to the symphonic work of Anton Bruckner .
history
Adolf Hitler wanted to develop Linz into the cultural center of Europe. In 1942, when he founded the third Linz orchestra, which was to function as a radio orchestra for the new “Reichssender St. Florian” after the Second World War , he got involved in the controversy over the city orchestra and the theater orchestra of Linz . Musicians from the Linz Symphony Orchestra and various radio orchestras from the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 were used . Like the symphony orchestra since 1940, the Bruckner Orchestra was under the direction of Georg Ludwig Jochum . After a one-year warm-up phase, the orchestra presented itself to the public for the first time on April 20, 1943 (Hitler's 54th birthday). A year later, Hitler wanted the name Linzer Reichs-Bruckner-Orchester des Deutschen Rundfunks .
Gauleiter August Eigruber wrote on February 22, 1944 about the orchestra's tasks :
“As a future task, the Bruckner Orchestra will receive broadcasting of the synphonic [!] Music of the Greater German Radio, then contest the Bruckner Festival and, as the orchestra of the Reich, give a larger number of guest concerts at home and abroad and only occasionally for the city of Linz as Synphony orchestra [!] Are available. "
In occupied post-war Austria , the RBO was dissolved by the high commissioner of the US occupation forces.
Guest Conductor
Guest conductors were Clemens Krauss , Hans Knappertsbusch and others. In July 1944 Herbert von Karajan performed the 8th Symphony (Bruckner) with the RBO , which he had just recorded for the Berlin radio with the Staatskapelle Berlin . Already famous, but rather unemployed, he tried to get orders from the RBO. He could also hope for the takeover because Robert Haas considered him “currently the best Bruckner conductor”; but Joseph Goebbels had stopped any seemingly dispensable support for culture.
Orchestra members
- Franz Hammerla , clarinetist
- Friedhelm Döhler , horn player
- Herbert Schimmelpfennig, 1st violinist
Reichs-Bruckner Choir
The Reichs Bruckner Choir also belonged to the Reichs Bruckner Orchestra . Heinrich Glasmeier , Reichsintendant of German Broadcasting, was personally commissioned by Hitler to build a Bruckner consecration place in St. Florian Monastery. The members of the orchestra and choir were ceremoniously sworn in on Bruckner's sarcophagus. Thomas Cantor Günther Ramin was hired to lead the choir . The choir was made up of the radio choirs that have since been disbanded, especially the Leipzig broadcasting station . The Bruckner Choir gave its first concerts in Leipzig under the direction of Ramin. Shortly before the choir moved to St. Florian in April 1944, Ramin resigned from his position. His successor was Michael Schneider (organist) . Until the surrender, the choir was used almost exclusively for Wehrmacht and hospital concerts.
literature
- Hanns Kreczi, Othmar Wessely : The Bruckner Stift St. Florian and the Linzer Reichs-Bruckner-Orchester (1942-1945). Graz 1986, ISBN 978-3201013192 .
- Hanns Kreczi, Andrea Harrandt, Elisabeth Maier , Uwe Harten: Bruckner Orchestra Linz and Brucknerhaus. Vienna 1992, ISBN 978-3900270216 .
- Albrecht Riethmüller (ed.): Bruckner problems (= archive for musicology . Supplement 45). Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-07496-1 , pp. 212-214, digitized
Web links
- Works by and about the Reichs-Bruckner-Orchester in the catalog of the German National Library
- Austrian music lexicon
- Marie-Therese Rudolph: Bruckner Orchestra Linz in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
- Blogs
Individual evidence
- ^ Province of Upper Austria
- ↑ Performances of Bruckner's 8th Symphony
- ^ Peter Uehling: Karajan. A biography , 2nd edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2008, ISBN 978 3 499 62287 8 , p. 80 f.