Wolfgang Boettcher (musician)

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Wolfgang Boettcher, June 2015

Wolfgang Boettcher (born January 30, 1935 in Berlin ) is a German cellist .

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Wolfgang Boettcher was trained by Richard Klemm . In 1958, he and his older sister, the Mannheim pianist Ursula Trede-Boettcher , won second prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. Until 1976 he was second principal cellist with the Berlin Philharmonic . From 1976 he took over a professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts, today's Berlin University of the Arts .

Boettcher is a founding member of the Ensemble Die 12 Cellisten and the Brandis Quartet . From 1986 to 1992 he was artistic director of the Hitzacker Summer Music Days and professor at the "Carl Flesch Academy Baden-Baden". In 1988 he became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .

His students include Jan Diesselhorst (1954–2009), who was also a member of the ensemble Die 12 Cellisten , Wen-Sinn Yang and Dietmar Schwalke .

Together with his two sisters Ursula on the piano and Marianne on the violin, Boettcher continues to give concerts even in old age. He is married to Regina Vollmar, the niece of his godfather Eberhard Preußner , with whom he has a son and four daughters, a. a. the actress Anna Böttcher , has.

Publications

  • with Winfried Pape: The violoncello - history, construction, technology, repertoire. Schott, Mainz 1996. 2nd, improved edition 2005, ISBN 3-7957-0283-6 .

literature

  • Berliner Philharmoniker: Variations with Orchestra - 125 Years of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Volume 2: Biographies and Concerts. Henschel, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-568-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data from Wolfgang Boettcher in: Who is Who - Das deutsche Who's Who 2000/2001 . 39th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Verlagsgruppe Beleke, Lübeck 2000, ISBN 978-3-7950-2029-3 , p. 140.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Boettcher on the website of the Carl Flesch Academy Baden-Baden
  3. ↑ M. Boettcher Dates , accessed on January 6, 2019
  4. ↑ Inspector “Sperling's” good soul Anna Böttcher plays the theater. In: The world. February 8, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Boettcher, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cellist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin