Wolfgang Hocke

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Wolfgang Hocke (born January 30, 1937 in Dresden ) is a German conductor , composer and choir director . He was General Music Director (GMD) at the Meininger Theater .

Life

Wolfgang Hocke was born in Dresden in 1937 and attended school in Dippoldiswalde . From 1951 to 1955 he was at the primary music school in Dresden and then studied composing, conducting and the instruments oboe and piano at the Dresden University of Music until 1959 . His teachers were Ernst Hintze (conducting), Johannes Paul Thilman (composition), Gerhard Berge (piano) and Alfred Tolksdorf (oboe).

In 1959 he went to Meiningen to the theater there, where in his early years he worked as a choir director, conductor and from 1962 first  conductor . From 1967 to 1995 he was chief conductor and later music director of the theater orchestra, which was founded as Meininger Hofkapelle in 1690 and incorporated into the theater in 1953, and in 2006 was given the name "Meininger Hofkapelle" back. In 1995 Hocke received the title of General Music Director.

Wolfgang Hocke particularly cultivated the works of Richard Wagner , Max Reger , Mozart , Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Strauss , but also turned to Romanticism and Modernism. He himself composed twelve children's concerts, three operas and several symphonic works, oratorios and chamber music . He has appeared as a guest conductor in several countries, including Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, France and Luxembourg. After German reunification, Wolfgang Hocke repeated the tour with the orchestra that Max Reger undertook with the court orchestra in the years 1911–1914. The venues were Berlin, Stuttgart, Bonn, Frankfurt / Main, Paderborn, Erlangen, Meppen, Schweinfurt, Hanover, Böblingen, Fürth, Itzehoe, Cuxhaven, Meschede and Erlangen.

After his retirement, Hocke continued to work as a composer and also as a conductor and director of the Liederkranz Schweinfurt . In 1997 he published his book “Behind the Scenes”, a review of the theater and music scene at the time of his engagement at the Meininger Theater. On March 2, 2015, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon by Federal President Joachim Gauck .

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Ballet:
    • "Little Rock", 1959
    • "Red Carnations", 1961
  • Operas:
    • “The cutthroat”, text: Lope de Vega, 1984
    • “Six people come through the world”, text: Jo Fabian, children's opera, 1986
    • “Puss in Boots”, text: Heinz Kahlau, Children's Opera, 1990
  • Symphonic works:
    • “Terpsichore for Orchestra”, 1960
    • "Ararat for Orchestra", 1966
    • “Aquarelle, Lieder for baritone and orchestra”, 1976
    • “Concertante for piano and orchestra”, 1977
    • “In memoriam Max Reger”, 1980
    • “In memoriam Johann Sebastian Bach”, 1985
    • "Metamorphoses for Orchestra", 1990
  • Children's concert:
    • "Vogelhochzeit", 1st children's concert, 1971
    • “March, Waltz, Minuet”, 2nd children's concert, 1973
    • “Always live the sun”, 3rd children's concert, 1975
    • “Peter wanted to go hunting”, 4th children's concert, 1976
    • “Hear how it sounds funny”, 5th Children's Concert, 1980
    • “The Little Scared Rabbit”, 6th Children's Concert, 1979
    • “Max and Moritz”, 7th children's concert, 1980
    • “Let's be musicians”, 8th Children's Concert, 1981
    • “The race between rabbits and hedgehogs”, 9th children's concert, 1982
    • “The story of the imaginary little mouse”, 10th children's concert, 1983
    • “Fairytale hour about the organ”, 11th children's concert, 1997
    • “Everything goes better with music”, 12th Children's Concert, 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meininger Tageblatt , article: Wolfgang Hocke receives the Cross of Merit . Friday Packet for March 28, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Squat, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden