Volkmar Fritsche
Volkmar Fritsche (born March 10, 1936 ) is a German composer and conductor.
Volkmar Fritsche studied school music (piano and viola), conducting and composition at the music academies in Freiburg and Stuttgart . With a Fulbright scholarship he continued his studies in the USA, at Brandeis University , Waltham (Massachusetts) and was awarded the Koussevitzky Prize for Composition in Tanglewood in 1962 . His teachers included Wolfgang Fortner , Witold Lutosławski , Volker Wangenheim , Franco Ferrara (Siena), Igor Markevitch (Monte Carlo).
After returning to Germany, he worked together with Wolfgang Fortner the Beggar's Opera ( Hans Magnus Enzensberger , UA in Heidelberg, under the direction of Peter Palitzsch ).
Volkmar Fritsche was a professor at the Folkwang-Hochschule , Institut Duisburg from 1968 to 1973 , where he conducted youth concerts with the Duisburg Symphony Orchestra and in 1969 the world premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Fresco for 4 orchestral groups in Bonn . He then went to the Staatstheater Oldenburg as Kapellmeister and conducted the classical opera and operetta repertoire and the youth concerts.
Since 1980 he has had a teaching position at the Trossingen University of Music for score playing for school musicians, church musicians and band masters and is music director of the city of Balingen .
Volkmar Fritsche was a guest conductor a. a. the Württemberg Philharmonic in Reutlingen , the Stuttgart Philharmonic , the Nuremberg Symphony , the Southwest German Philharmonic and various orchestras in the USA. In Russia, he conducted the Voronezh Philharmonic, the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra Yekaterinburg and the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 1997 he made his debut in Japan and was a guest conductor in Melbourne / Australia in 1997, 1999 and 2002.
In 1997 Volkmar Fritsche was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Web links
- Literature by and about Volkmar Fritsche in the catalog of the German National Library
- Internet presence
- Catalog of works
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Fritsche, Volkmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1936 |