Wolfram Jacobi

Wolfram Jacobi (born February 6, 1928 in Dresden ; † October 26, 2015 in Leipzig ) was a German conductor and composer . In 1960 he was awarded the title of Music Director .

Career

Wolfram Jacobi was the son of the actor Waldemar Jacobi and the make-up artist Else Jacobi. He received his musical training as a conductor and composer from 1942 to 1945 at the "Academy for Music, Theater and Dance" in Dresden, today the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music . Here his teachers were Kurt Striegler and Ernst Hintze (conducting), Joseph Lederer (composition) and Elisabeth Steinmetz-Bock and Arletta Hypius (vocals).

In the course of his 46-year stage career, he took on more and more responsible functions in the following places:

• Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Theater Bernburg , 1947–1951, 2nd Kapellmeister / Choir Director
• Theater der Stadt Brandenburg , 1951–1952, 1954–1957, Kapellmeister and director of studies
• Theaters of the city of Quedlinburg , 1952–1954, 1st opera conductor
• State Orchestra Aue , 1959–1971, chief conductor
• Theater der Altmark Stendal , 1971–1979, musical director, head of the musical theater, deputy director and director
• Stadttheater Döbeln , 1979–1993, artistic director, head of the music theater, senior stage director, director and conductor

There are also numerous guest conductors in the former ČSSR, in Poland, Bulgaria and Romania. As an opera director he came up with over 80 productions, most of which were created in conjunction with his musical direction.

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Wolfram Jacobi's compositional oeuvre ranges from symphonies (2 symphonies) to choral settings and theatrical music to opera. Examples are:

• " The Thieving Ducks ", ballet, 1955
• Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major , 1960
• Concerto for oboe and string orchestra , 1965
• " Ephialtes ", opera, 2000
• “ Sleeping Beauty ”, children's opera, 2002
• " The Storm ", Opera, 2008

His grave in the Leipziger Südfriedhof

family

Wolfram Jacobi was u. a. married to the actress Irene-Waldburg Struwe, the sister of the actor Alfred Struwe . Their daughter Bettina was born in Leipzig in 1953. Wolfram Jacobi was married to the actress Petra Jacobi from 1982 until his death.

Wolfram Jacobi spent the last years of his life in Leipzig. He was buried in the Südfriedhof in Leipzig.

His brother Günther Jacobi (born 1930) was an actor, most recently at the theater in Heilbronn .

Web links

• MD Wolfram Jacobi. Retrieved March 17, 2017 . 
• Video orchestral rehearsal W. Jacobi. In: YouTube. Retrieved March 17, 2017 .