Zdeněk Košler
Zdeněk Košler (* 25. March 1928 in Prague , † 2 July 1995 in Prague) was a Czech conductor , who play an important role in the second half of the 20th century, especially between the 1960s and 1980s in Czechoslovakia played .
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Košler was born into a musical family. His father was a member of the orchestra of the Prague National Theater and his younger brother Miroslav was a choir director .
After graduating from high school, he enrolled at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague . In 1948, while still a student, he made himself available as a répétiteur at the Prague National Theater and even then began to gain experience with the baton. In 1949 Košler took up his first position at the opera in Olomouc and conducted works by Leoš Janáček ( The Makropulos Affair ) and Mozart ( Così fan tutte , Figaro's wedding ) , among others . In 1959, together with Sergiu Comissiona , he won first prize at the International Competition for Young Conductors in Besançon , France, and in 1963, together with Claudio Abbado and the Argentine Pedro Ignacio Calderón, the prestigious Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition in New York. As a result, he was able to sit in with Leonard Bernstein with the New York Philharmonic as a guest conductor. From 1962 to 1964 he conducted at the Antonín Dvořák Theater in Ostrava . He also worked at many foreign opera houses and orchestras. For example at the Vienna State Opera , where he conducted the opera Salome by Richard Strauss and the complete cycle of Antonín Dvořák's symphonies . In the late 1960s he was a guest conductor at the Komische Oper in Berlin . Košler was second conductor at the Czech Philharmonic and from 1971 chief conductor at the Slovak Opera House in Bratislava and from 1980 to 1984 he also led the orchestra of the Prague National Theater as chief conductor. In 1992 he retired.
Zdeněk Košler was well known beyond the borders of Czechoslovakia and made concert tours through England, Austria, the United States and Canada. With 30 guest appearances, Japan was the country where he conducted a wide variety of orchestras, with most of his stays abroad.
Filmography
- 1966: Don Giovanni (theater recording)
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Košler, Zdeněk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2nd 1995 |
| Place of death | Prague |