Włodzimierz Ormicki
Włodzimierz Ernest Ormicki (born June 30, 1905 in Krakow , Austria-Hungary , † May 31, 1974 in Bydgoszcz ) was a Polish conductor, opera director and composer.
Life
Włodzimierz Ernest Ormicki was when Vladimir Ernest walnut, son of an official in until 1918 to Austria belonging Galicia born. In 1924 the name of the Jewish family was Polonized . An older brother was the geographer Wiktor Rudolf Ormicki .
Ormicki attended the Krakow Conservatory from 1915 to 1922 , after which he studied in Vienna and Munich and graduated in 1926 from the Munich State Academy of Music . He began his professional career as a répétiteur at the Munich Opera , after which he was engaged in Solothurn , Switzerland. From 1929 he worked in Cracow and Warsaw and as an assistant at the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra founded by Grzegorz Fitelberg in 1934 . From 1937 he directed the symphony orchestra in Krakow.
After the German occupation of Poland , he succeeded his identity to hide and thus survived even in August 1944, an arrest campaign in which 4000 Krakow Poland into the Plaszow concentration camp deported were. His brother, on the other hand, was already captured during the Krakow special and murdered by the Germans in Mauthausen concentration camp in 1941 .
After the war he built the radio orchestra of the Katowice Radio with Witold Rowicki , was employed at the Filharmonia Łódzka , directed the Breslau Opera and from 1953 to 1963 the Silesian Opera in Bytom . There he staged Mozart and Verdi and translated the libretti for them , expanded the repertoire, played established Polish composers such as Stanisław Moniuszko and Karol Szymanowski and gave premieres of works by Witold Rudziński , Jerzy Gablenz and Romuald Twardowski . From 1963 to 1965 he directed the Wroclaw Philharmonic and then the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. From 1969 until his death he was director of the Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz , the opera house that is important for Polish musical life.
literature
- Hannes Heer ; Jürgen Kesting ; Peter Schmidt : Silent voices: the Bayreuth Festival and the “Jews” from 1876 to 1945; an exhibition . Bayreuth Festival Park and Exhibition Hall New Town Hall Bayreuth, July 22 to October 14, 2012. Berlin: Metropol, 2012 ISBN 978-3-86331-087-5 , p. 371
Web links
- Karol Bula: The repertoire of the Silesian State Opera from a social-cultural aspect , at the University of Leipzig
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ormicki, Włodzimierz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ormicki, Włodzimierz Ernest |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish conductor and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krakow Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1974 |
| Place of death | Bydgoszcz |