Sixten Ehrling
Sixten Ehrling (born April 3, 1918 in Malmö , Sweden , † February 13, 2005 in New York City ) was a Swedish conductor .
Ehrling studied from 1936 to 1941 at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm (piano, violin, composition, diplomas in music lessons, organ, conducting). In 1941 he spent a year at the Semperoper in Dresden for reasons of study , where he assisted Karl Böhm .
Sixten Ehrling made his breakthrough as a conductor in 1950, where he conducted Igor Stravinsky's “Sacre du Printemps” by heart in a concert by the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra . The Swedish King Gustav VI. Adolf finally awarded Ehrling the title of “First Conductor of the Royal Court”. From 1953 to 1960 Ehrling was director of the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm . During these years he worked closely with the singer stars Jussi Björling and Birgit Nilsson .
In 1952/53 Ehrling made the first complete recording of Jean Sibelius' symphonies with the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ehrling was considered the premiere conductor. For example, the world premiere of the opera “Aniara” by the Swedish composer Karl-Birger Blomdahl at the Stockholm Opera in 1959, a production that gave a guest performance in Edinburgh that same year, caused a stir .
In 1960 Ehrling quit the post of Opera Director in Stockholm after disputes and turned his career to the USA, where he finally succeeded the conductor Paul Paray as chief conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1963 (1963–1973).
From 1973 Ehrling lived permanently in New York. At the Juilliard School of Music there , he worked from 1973 to 1987 as the head of the conducting courses (among the best-known of his students are Myung-Whun Chung , JoAnn Falletta , Andrew Litton and Andreas Delfs ). In 1973 Ehrling also made his debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera.
Ehrling also worked as musical advisor and first guest conductor of the Denver Symphony Orchestra (1978–1985) and as artistic advisor to the San Diego Symphony Orchestra (1985–1988). In 1993 Ehrling became chief conductor and musical advisor to the three orchestras of the Manhattan School of Music .
From 1974 to 1976 Ehrling also held the post of chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra .
Ehrlich preferred composers were Maurice Ravel , Claude Debussy , Ottorino Respighi , Richard Strauss , Richard Wagner and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica Online (English)
- ↑ Sixten Ehrling, Swedish Conductor, Dies at 86 ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Obituary in Juillard Journal Online , Vol.XX, No. March 6, 2005
Web links
- Works by and about Sixten Ehrling in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary for Sixten Ehrling from the Juillard Journal Online
- Obituary for Sixten Ehrling from "The Guardian"
- Article from the Encyclopedia Britannica Online
- Encounters with Sixten Ehrling
Heinrich Hammer (1905–1907) | Wilhelm Stenhammar (1907–1922) | Ture Rangström (1922–1925) | Tor Mann (1925–1939) | Issay Dobrowen (1941–1953) | Dean Dixon (1953-1960) | Sergiu Comissiona (1967–1973) | Sixten Ehrling (1974–1976) | Charles Dutoit (1976-1979) | Neeme Järvi (1982-2004) | Mario Venzago (2004–2007) | Gustavo Dudamel (2007–2012) | Santtu-Matias Rouvali (since 2017)
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| SURNAME | Ehrling, Sixten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malmo |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 2005 |
| Place of death | New York City |