Walter Schartner

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Walter Schartner (born December 3, 1894 in Berlin ; † May 24, 1970 ibid) was a German conductor , composer and university professor. In 1946 he was appointed general music director in Halle and as such led the orchestra of the opera house . In 1949/50 he was chief conductor of the Landes-Volksorchester Sachsen-Anhalt .

Life

Walter Schartner was born in Berlin in 1894. There he attended the Stern Conservatory , where Leo Blech was his most important teacher. A first position as Kapellmeister in Königsberg i.Pr. followed by stations in Münster and Bremerhaven. In 1926 he directed the Hans Rudolf Waldburg production of Handel's opera Rodelinda in Bremerhaven . From 1928 to 1944 he worked in Görlitz. In 1928 he became the musical director of the theater and in 1930 he took over the symphony concerts.

In 1945 Schartner was appointed director of the Dresden University of Music . Guest conductors led him a. a. to the State Opera and the Philharmonic in Dresden. After a guest conducting in Halle in 1946, he was appointed city music director by the mayor of Halle , Karl Pretzsch , at the suggestion of the theater committee . In June 1946 he conducted his first symphony concert in the Volkspark in Halle. Following a proposal by Pretzsch, the President of the Saxon provincial administration , Erhard Hübener , appointed him General Music Director in September 1946 . In 1948 he conducted the premiere of Handel's Serse at the Thalia Theater ; the production was done by Sigurd Baller . In Halle he also emerged as a composer, so in 1948 his opera Und Pippa tanzt, based on a play of the same name by Gerhart Hauptmann, was premiered at the State Theater. He also headed the opera department at the State University for Theater and Music in Halle . In April 1949, the Minister for Popular Education, Art and Science, Richard Schallock , declared that his contract as General Music Director would not be renewed. Nevertheless, in 1949/50 he was appointed artistic director of the Landes-Volksorchester Sachsen-Anhalt .

In 1950 he was offered a professorship at the Weimar Academy for Theater and Music . In 1950/51 he was the conductor of the Loh Orchestra in Sondershausen . He then worked as a conductor for the Berlin radio station . In 1951 he presented the complete opera recording to Regina by Albert Lortzing with the choir and the orchestra of the Berliner Rundfunk der GDR . Later he was the first conductor and musical director of the Rehberge open-air theater in West Berlin .

Until his death, Schartner was married to the composer, pianist, lyricist and chanson interpreter Jeanette Chéro (* 1927, née Roscher, real name Christiane Schartner).

literature

  • Susanne Baselt: Chronicle of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . Part I: 1946 to 1964 . Edited by the management of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle, Halle (Saale) 1999, p. 38ff.
  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland . de Gruyter, Berlin 1956, p. 637.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Susanne Baselt: Chronicle of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . Part I: 1946 to 1964 . Edited by the management of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle, Halle (Saale) 1999, p. 38f.
  2. ^ Ernst Kretzschmar: Görlitz under the swastika (= series of publications of the municipal art collections . NFH 18). Municipal art collections, Görlitz 1982, p. 39.
  3. ^ A b Gisela Heine: The Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . G. Heine, Halle (Saale) 1997, p. 11.
  4. ^ Susanne Baselt: Chronicle of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle . Part I: 1946 to 1964 . Ed. By the management of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle, Halle (Saale) 1999, p. 41.
  5. ↑ Names of the Kapellmeister of the Hofkapelle and the conductors of the Loh-Orchester Sondershausen , foerderverein-loh-orchester.de, accessed: April 30, 2020.
  6. ↑ a b Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland . de Gruyter, Berlin 1956, p. 637.
  7. ^ Karsten Steiger: Opera discography: directory of all audio and video recordings . 2nd, fully updated and expanded edition, Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-11784-8 , p. 237.
  8. ↑ Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who . 45th edition (2006/07), Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2006, ISBN 3-7950-2042-5 , p. 204.
personal data
SURNAME Schartner, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, composer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1970
Place of death Berlin