Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg

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Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg (born April 15, 1906 in Stuttgart , † April 1, 1985 in Hamburg ) was a German conductor .

Life

Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg inherited his penchant for opera from his father, the court actor and director Max Brückner-Rüggeberg. As a child he was already on the stage at Wilhelm Tell as a boy and, due to the wandering life of the theater family, he changed schools no less than thirteen times.

Brückner-Rüggeberg began his career in 1929 in Munich as an assistant to Hans Knappertsbusch . Further stations were Essen 1929/30, Oberhausen 1930/31, Dortmund 1931–33, Gera / Rudolstadt 1933/34 as 1st Kapellmeister, where he conducted almost exclusively opera. As artistic director of the opera plays in the Bergwaldtheater Weißenburg he worked from 1934 to 1939 under the artistic director Egon Schmid , who was also active in Rudolstadt. After several stations he came in 1934 as the successor of Herbert von Karajan as first conductor at the Ulm Theater in Ulm and finally in 1938 to Hamburg, where until his death in 1985 he directed the Hamburg teachers choir , now the Hamburg Symphony Choir , and from 1943 as Lecturer, from 1960 taught as a professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . In Hamburg he conducted well over 2000 performances until 1971. In more than 700 discussion concerts for Hamburg schools, the so-called Hamburg student concerts, integrated into school music lessons, he worked with the Hamburg Philharmonic to promote understanding of music and explained and conducted classical music.

His grave is in the forest cemetery in Wohldorf-Ohlstedt .

Works (selection)

Concert activity

He has conducted the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra , the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and the NDR Symphony Orchestra , among others .

He regularly conducted productions at NDR. Over 90 recordings can be found in the NDR archive, including the complete recording by Freischütz, but also many symphonic works and rarities.

Record recordings

  • Somerset - Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty, Grieg - Peer Gynt, Mozart - A Little Night Music, Bach - Brandenburg Concerts, D Major Suite, Mozart - Piano Concerts with Christoph Eschenbach , Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg.

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personal data
SURNAME Brückner-Rüggeberg, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1985
Place of death Hamburg