Reinhard Peters (conductor)

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Reinhard Peters (born April 2, 1926 in Magdeburg , † June 4, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German conductor and musician .

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Reinhard Peters worked at the State Opera Unter den Linden as a répétiteur and violinist and studied conducting in Paris. In 1951 he was the first winner of the Concours international de jeunes chefs d'orchestre de Besançon . From 1957 to 1961 he worked at the Deutsche Oper in Düsseldorf , where he conducted, among other things, Die tödlichen Wünsche von Giselher Klebe .

From 1961 to 1970 he was music director of the Symphony Orchestra of Münster in Theater Muenster , 1970, he went to the German Opera Berlin . In the following period he was, among other things, director of the Philharmonia Hungarica in Marl (1974 to 1979) and taught at the Folkwang School in Essen . His students include Stefan Blunier , Jörg Iwer and Oliver Leo Schmidt .

As a guest conductor, he has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, among others . In 1973 he conducted the guest performance of the Deutsche Oper Berlin at the Brussels Opera House La Monnaie / De Munt Loves Labor's Lost by Nicolas Nabokov .

Reinhard Peters grave in the Wilmersdorf cemetery

Reinhard Peters had a traffic accident with severe damage to the central nervous system while on vacation near Reims in 1995 . He was first admitted to the intensive care unit of the Neurosurgical University Clinic in Reims and transferred to the Clemenshospital in Münster after about two weeks . About a month after the accident there was a “clear brightening of consciousness with the beginning of orientation”. After two years of therapy he was able to conduct again, for example in 1997 in Rio de Janeiro with the “Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira”.

Reinhard Peters was married to Tereza Peters.

Awards

Discography

Reinhard Peters conducts several orchestras for sound recordings, such as the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Philharmonia Hungarica, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Munich Philharmonic and the Collegium Aureum . Works by classical composers such as Gioachino Rossini , Johann Sebastian Bach , Georg Friedrich Handel , Camille Saint-Saëns , Adolphe Adam and Ruggero Leoncavallo as well as works by contemporary composers and portraits of singers such as

He also conducted several editions of Musik in Germany from 1950–2000 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto J. Groeg (Ed.): Who's who in the Arts. Volume 2: N-Z. Ottobrunn 1978, ISBN 978-3-921220-22-1 , p. 49 ( snippet view ).
  2. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 4. de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-598-44088-X , p. 5325 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ Münster Symphony Orchestra ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on muenster.org
  4. ↑ Artist news in Fono Forum 6/1970, p. 376 (PDF; 1.6 MB)
  5. ^ Orchestra of the Philharmonia Hungarica ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on menuhinhaus.de
  6. ↑ Stefan Blunier on theatergemeinde-bonn.de
  7. ↑ Jörg Iwer on sinfonieorchester-vs.com
  8. ↑ Prof. Oliver Leo Schmidt on folkwang-uni.de
  9. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Large singer lexicon . Volume 4. de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-598-44088-X , p. 5267 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  10. ↑ Press release ( Memento from April 26, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 2008
Place of death Berlin