Volker Rohde

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Volker Rohde (born May 4, 1939 in Greifswald ; † October 22, 2000 ) was a German conductor and university professor. After having been chief conductor of the Handel Festival Orchestra in Halle from 1976 to 1979 , he subsequently worked as deputy chief conductor at the Dresden State Opera and as chief musical director at the Leipzig Opera .

Life

Volker Rohde was born in Greifswald in 1939. He studied with Willy Niepold and Horst Förster at the German University of Music Berlin .

In 1962/63 he became a solo repetitor at the Landestheater Altenburg . Then he moved to the Komische Oper Berlin . From 1968 to 1970 he was choir director at the Städtische Bühnen Zwickau , where he made his debut as an opera conductor in 1969 with the opera buffa Il barbiere di Siviglia by Giovanni Paisiello . In 1970 he became the first Kapellmeister in Zwickau. From 1972 to 1976 he was first conductor at the Dresden State Opera . He then became the musical director in Halle. As such, he was chief conductor of the Handel Festival Orchestra in Halle from 1976 to 1979 . In 1978 he conducted the Handel opera Radamisto in a production by Martin Schneider . On the occasion of the Handel Festival in 1979 he premiered Domhardt's Double Concerto for 2 Violins and Orchestra (with Brigitte and Christian Funke ). In 1981/82 he took over the musical direction of the Christian Pöppelreiter production of Biber's Arminius at the Komische Oper Berlin. In 1981 he premiered Günter Neubert's Lessing Fables for tenor, choir and orchestra (with Joachim Vogt ) with the Dresden Philharmonic . In 1983 he became deputy chief conductor of the Dresden State Opera. Together with the Chamber Harmony of the Staatskapelle Dresden, he opened the Dresden Music Festival in 1984 with the world premiere of Weiss ' Music for eight wind instruments . In 1990 he became musical director at the Leipzig Opera . After Lothar Zagrosek resigned as general music director in 1992, he took on the duties of the artistic director Udo Zimmermann . His repertoire included a. Wagner , Rossini and Mozart . In 1992 he directed the premiere of the John Dew production of Mozart's Così fan tutte in Leipzig . With Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre , he also took on the direction of a contemporary opera. “The experienced but artistically pale” Rohde, according to Fritz Hennenberg , then had to give way to Jiří Kout .

In 1988 he was appointed professor with artistic teaching activities at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden . He then taught at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig , where the teaching obligation in conducting was combined with the direction of the university symphony orchestra , which he headed from 1992 to 1997, succeeding Christian Kluttig . From 1998 he worked at the State University for Music Trossingen . He also worked in Leipzig (1992) and Reutlingen (1998) as artistic director for orchestral conductors at the Conductor Forum of the German Music Council . His students included u. a. Roland Kluttig , Henrik Schaefer and Gernot Schulz .

Guest trips took him as a conductor and accompanist across Europe. He also submitted numerous radio recordings.

Rohde was married and had one child.

Awards

  • 1969: Second place in the Dresden Carl Maria von Weber competition for conductors
  • 1974: Fourth place in the international conducting competition in Budapest, advertised by Hungarian television

literature

  • Maria F. Rich (Ed.): Who's who in opera: an international biographical directory of singers, conductors, directors, designers, and administrators, also including profiles of 101 opera companies . Arno Press, New York 1976, ISBN 0-405-06652-X , p. 460.
  • Horst Seeger : The great lexicon of the opera. Over 12,000 keywords and explanations . Pawlak, Herrsching 1985, ISBN 3-88199-243-X , p. 472.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g Christian T. Köhler: Volker Rohde tot. Musician with foresight and straightforwardness . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , October 25, 2000, p. 12.
  2. a b c d e f g h Horst Seeger : The great lexicon of the opera. Over 12,000 keywords and explanations . Pawlak, Herrsching 1985, ISBN 3-88199-243-X , p. 472.
  3. Susanne Range (Red.): Klangspuren. 100 years of the Halle Opera House orchestra 1897–1997 . Edited by the Halle Opera House, Halle / Saale 1997, no p.
  4. Karin Zauft: Handel and the Handel Festival in Halle. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2001, ISBN 978-3-89812-085-2 , p. 57f.
  5. ^ Wera Wohlgemuth: From dealing with Handel's music. Impressions from the 28th Festival in Halle . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 12, 1979, vol. 35, issue 136, p. 6.
  6. Hans-Jochen Genzel (Red.): The Komische Oper . Edited by von der Komische Oper, Nicolai, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87584-656-7 , p. 222.
  7. ^ Dieter Härtwig : Dresden Philharmonic. World premieres and selected premieres 1964–1999 . In: Matthias Herrmann , Hanns-Werner Heister (Ed.): Dresden and advanced music in the 20th century. Report on the colloquium organized by the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music and the Institute for Musicology at the "Carl Maria von Weber" Academy of Music in Dresden (= Music in Dresden . Vol. 6). Part 3: 1966-1999 . Laaber, Laaber 2004, ISBN 3-89007-511-8 , pp. 224–242, here: p. 235.
  8. Dresden Music Festival officially opened in 1984 . In: Neue Zeit , May 21, 1984, vol. 40, edition 119, p. 1.
  9. Zagrosek quits Zimmermann . In: Neue Zeit , March 28, 1992, vol. 48, issue 75, p. 12.
  10. ^ Fritz Hennenberg: History of the Leipzig Opera from its beginnings to the present . Sax-Verlag, Beucha u. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-86729-045-6 , p. 212.
  11. ^ Fritz Hennenberg : History of the Leipzig Opera from its beginnings to the present . Sax-Verlag, Beucha u. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-86729-045-6 , p. 233.
  12. ^ Fritz Hennenberg: History of the Leipzig Opera from its beginnings to the present . Sax-Verlag, Beucha u. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-86729-045-6 , p. 200.
  13. The HMT Symphony Orchestra , hmt-leipzig.de, accessed on May 11, 2020.
  14. Christian Fanghänel, Heike Bronn: From the "orchestral school" to the university symphony orchestra . In: MT-Journal. Journal of the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig , No. 26 (2009), supplement, pp. 1–5, here: p. 5.
  15. Orchestra conductors: Artistic directors , dirigentenforum.de, accessed: May 10, 2020.
  16. Axel Schiederjürgen (Red.): Kürschner's Musicians Handbook. Soloists, conductors, composers, university lecturers . 5th edition, Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3 , p. 239.
  17. ^ A b Maria F. Rich (Ed.): Who's who in opera: an international biographical directory of singers, conductors, directors, designers, and administrators, also including profiles of 101 opera companies . Arno Press, New York 1976, ISBN 0-405-06652-X , p. 460.
  18. Cultural survey . In: Neue Zeit , July 8, 1969, vol. 25, issue 157, p. 4.
  19. Cultural survey . In: Neue Zeit , April 27, 1974, vol. 30, issue 98, p. 4.