Siegfried Borries

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Siegfried Borries

Siegfried Paul Otto Borries (born March 10, 1912 in Münster ; † August 12, 1980 in Berlin ) was a German violinist and violin teacher.

Life

After completing secondary school and corresponding preliminary studies, Siegfried Borries studied from 1929 at the Conservatory in Cologne in the master class of Professor Bram Eldering . At the first international competition for voice and violin in Vienna in 1932, he was the only German among 300 applicants to receive the “Grand International Prize” and a few months later, in October 1932, the “Mendelssohn Prize Berlin” from the State University of Music in Berlin. At the age of 20, on January 1, 1933, he was appointed first  concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic by Wilhelm Furtwängler . In May 1936 he was awarded the "Music Prize of the Reich Capital Berlin", which was first donated. Also in 1936 he became a teacher at the Municipal Conservatory . At the Reichsmusiktage in the summer of 1939, Borries received the National Music Prize 1939 for the best German violinist among the youngsters. From 1941 to 1945 Borries was the special concert master of the Staatskapelle Berlin under Herbert von Karajan . As a chamber musician he played from 1933 to 1945 together with his Philharmonic colleagues Heinrich Breiden, flute and Hans Ahlgrimm, 2nd violin in the Trio Borries-Breiden-Ahlgrimm. Borries was listed as an important violinist of the Nazi state on Goebbels' Gottbegnadeten list .

After the end of the war, in 1945, he took over the master classes for violin at the newly founded “International Music Institute Berlin”. He also resumed his work as concertmaster of the Philharmonic and became director of its chamber music association. From 1948 he taught violin (as professor from 1949) at the Berlin Conservatory and in the following years developed a lively concert activity as a soloist and chamber musician at home and abroad. In 1957 there were differences with the Berlin Senate over fee issues, whereupon Borries refused, among other things, to take part in the jubilee concert for the 75th anniversary of the orchestra. He was then on leave until he finally left the orchestra on August 31, 1961.

Prices

  • 1932: International Music Prize Vienna
  • 1932: Mendelssohn Prize for performing musicians
  • 1936: Music Prize of the City of Berlin
  • 1939: National music award for the best German violinist among the youngsters

Audio documents

literature

  • Berliner Philharmoniker: Variations with Orchestra - 125 Years of the Berliner Philharmoniker . Volume 2, biographies and concerts . Verlag Henschel, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-568-8
  • Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954 . de Gruyter, Berlin 1954
  • Hanspeter Bennwitz: Interpretenlexikon der Instrumentalmusik . Francke, Bern 1964
  • Gerassimos Averinos: Artist Biographies . Berlin 1972
  • Munzinger Archive People
  • Variations with orchestra . Henschel, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-568-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Klee : Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945 . 1st edition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , pp. 63 .
  2. ↑ The double officer . In: Die Zeit , No. 18/1957
personal data
SURNAME Borries, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borries, Siegfried Paul Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist and violin teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1980
Place of death Berlin