Walter Hagen grudge
Walter Hagen-Groll (born April 15, 1927 in Chemnitz ; † November 3, 2018 in Salzburg ) was a German choir director , conductor and pianist .
Life
Hagen-Groll was trained in piano and organ playing from 1934 to 1944 by Eugen Richter while he was still at a secondary school in Chemnitz. After graduating from high school, he continued his pianistic training in 1944 with Josef Pembaur in Munich, which he completed from 1947 to 1952 at the Stuttgart University of Music , interrupted by participation in the war and imprisonment . His teachers here were Jürgen Uhde and Hubert Giesen (piano), Gustav Koslik and Walter Aign (conducting) and Hermann Erpf ( musicology ). In 1952 he became solo repetitor and deputy choir director at the Stuttgart State Opera , and in 1957 choir director of the Städtische Bühne Heidelberg . 1960 to 1962 he assisted Wilhelm Pitz at the Bayreuth Festival .
As a choir director at first houses in Berlin, Salzburg and Vienna and as a teacher, he has earned great respect for his choir singers and students, but also for conductors, directors and soloists. On the occasion of his appointment as an honorary member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin , whose choir he directed from 1961 to 1984, he acknowledged his ambition “to make the best of the largest opera choir in Europe”. Die Welt commented: “He has had that for many years reached."
Places of work
- 1961 to 1984: Choir director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
- 1962 to 1988: Choir director at the Salzburg Festival
- 1971 to 1974: Head of the New Philharmonia Chorus in London
- 1984 to 1986: Choir director of the Vienna State Opera (guest contract from 1986)
- 1987/88: Choir director of the Wiener Singakademie
- From September 1986: Head of the choir conductor class at the University of Music and Performing Arts “Mozarteum” in Salzburg
Awards
- 1966 German Critics' Prize
- 1980 Federal Cross of Merit
- 1981 Gold Medal of Merit of the State of Salzburg
- 1984 Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 1987 Clemens Krauss medal from the Vienna State Opera Choir Concert Association
- 2001 honorary member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
- 2003 honorary member of the Salzburg Society for Contemporary Music
Discography (selection)
Walter Hagen-Groll has contributed to almost 80 records and CD recordings under well-known conductors such as Herbert von Karajan , Carlo Maria Giulini , Eugen Jochum , Christoph von Dohnányi , Karl Böhm , Lorin Maazel and Robert Stolz , among others:
- The Mastersingers of Nuremberg by Richard Wagner , conductor: Herbert von Karajan, EMI 1967
- Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner, conductor: Herbert von Karajan, Deutsche Grammophon 1970
- Tristan and Isolde von Richard Wagner, conductor: Herbert von Karajan, Angel Records 1972
- Otello by Giuseppe Verdi , conductor: Herbert von Karajan, Angel Records 1974
- Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi, conductor: Herbert von Karajan, EMI 1978
- Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi, conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli , Deutsche Grammophon 1983
- Great Mass in C minor KV 427 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Teldec 1985
- Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125 by Ludwig van Beethoven , conducted by Claudio Abbado , German Grammophon in 1987
- Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, conductor: Riccardo Muti , EMI 1997
- Missa solemnis in D major op.123 by Ludwig van Beethoven, conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini, EMI 2008
Web links
- Walter Hagen-Groll at Discogs (English)
- Walter Hagen-Groll in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Walter Hagen resentment of “who's who”; accessed on August 30, 2014
- Photography from a program of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna in the picture archive Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ Former choir director Walter Hagen-Groll honorary member of the Deutsche Oper . In: Die Welt , June 7, 2001
- ^ Elisabeth Th. Hilscher-Fritz: Wiener Singakademie. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
- ↑ List at Discogs; accessed on August 30, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hagen grudges, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German choir director and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd November 2018 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |