Robert Christian Bachmann

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Robert Christian Bachmann (born November 15, 1944 - November 21, 2019 ) was a Swiss conductor , composer and publisher .

Life

Robert Christian Bachmann received piano lessons from the Swiss musician and composer Alfred Leonz Gassmann at the age of five, and later at the Lucerne Conservatory. He completed his conducting and music studies in 1968 as a master class student with Herbert Ahlendorf at the Berlin Conservatory, formerly known as the Stern Conservatory , and at the Berlin Conservatory.

As a young talent he was noticed by Rafael Kubelík at the Lucerne Festival 1961/1962 . He received recognition at the Concours international de jeunes chefs d'orchestre de Besançon in 1965. He made his debut at the Festival International des Jeunes Artistes in Leysin with Beethoven's Symphony No. 8. In 1966, he was invited to assist Ljubomir Romansky at the Musiktheater im Revier . In 1980 he made his debut in London. Since then he has worked with British orchestras such as the Philharmonia Orchestra , the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), which he conducted himself for the first time in 1989. The collaboration with the RPO led to a performance and recording of all of Johannes Brahms' symphonies and the work of Anton Bruckner . In 1992 the Zagreb Philharmonic was invited to a “Concert for Freedom and Peace for Croatia and the Balkans”. In 1993 Robert Christian Bachmann became artistic director of the Budapest Whitsun Festival, where he conducted the Budapest Symphony and the Budapest Philharmonic . Numerous recordings for CD and television resulted from this collaboration. In 1999 Bachmann worked with the Russian National Orchestra in Moscow and performed Anton Bruckner's symphonies.

The Hungarian Primate Péter Cardinal Erdő appointed Bachmann professor of music at the Catholic Péter Pázmány University in Budapest . Since 2007 Bachmann has been professor and director of the St. Gellert Institute for Music and Ethics at the Ferenc Gál Theological College on Szeged Cathedral Square. He was the founder and artistic director of the St. Gellert Academy and the St. Gellert Festival in the Munster of Szeged.

As a musicologist and publisher, he became known with several books, reference works and publications on outstanding artistic personalities.

He was buried in Magyarnándor-Kelecsény.

honors and awards

  • Order of St. Gregory the Great (Commander) by Pope Benedict XVI. for "his work in spreading Christian understandings and values ​​in the field of culture, and for his contribution to promoting harmony between nations and peoples as well as for his effectiveness in promoting intercultural understanding". (2006)
  • Pro Cultura Hungarica for “promoting the values ​​of Hungarian culture abroad and enriching cultural relations between the Hungarian nation and other countries” (2011)
  • Hungarian Order of Merit (officer) by the Hungarian President János Áder for "his invaluable services to the promotion of cultural relations between Hungary and other nations and to the support of Hungarian culture" (2012)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary notice Robert Christian Bachmann , NZZ from December 14, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d Robert Christian Bachmann , St. Gellert Institute for Music and Ethics, accessed on December 14, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Bachmann, Robert Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bachmann, Robert C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss conductor, composer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1944
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 2019