Burkhard Glaetzner (right in picture) at the 27th International Music Seminar in Weimar (1986)
Burkhard Glaetzner (born 29 May 1943) is a German oboe virtuoso und conductor. He is one of the leading oboe players in Germany.
Burkhard Glaetzner (born 29 May 1943) is a German oboe virtuoso und conductor. He is one of the leading oboe players in Germany.
Glaetzner was born in Poznań. His grandfather was the Goethe researcher Hermann August Korff , who last taught in Leipzig. In 1944 the family moved to Falkenhain/Saxony and in 1950 to Leipzig. In 1953 he received his first recorder lessons; two years later followed his first public appearance. After moving to Berlin (East) in 1957 he attended the Musikgymnasium Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in the Rheinsberger Straße from 1958 to 1962. He changed to the oboe and received his first piano lessons.
After graduating from school in 1962, he took up oboe studies with Hans Werner Wätzig at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin. In 1963/64 he won first prizes at the GDR University Competition for Wind Instruments. In 1965 he passed his state examination and became aspirant at the Berlin Academy of Music for one year. From 1966 to 1982 he was principal oboist in the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra under Herbert Kegel and Wolf-Dieter Hauschild. Since 1969 he also taught oboe at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, where he was appointed full professor in 1982. In 1992 he was appointed professor for oboe at the Berlin University of the Arts, now the Berlin University of the Arts. Among his students were Matthias Bäcker and Kai Rapsch.
In 1990 he was one of the founding members of the Forum Zeitgenössischer Musik Leipzig. [1] Two years later, as a member of the "Constituent Working Group", he was co-founder [2] and vice president of the Freie Akademie der Künste zu Leipzig , which was active until 2003. He also became a full member of the music class of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste in Dresden. In the context of the Handel Festival, Halle he was a juror in the competition for the Händel-Förderpreis der Stadt Halle . [3] In 2013 he acted as chairman of the jury for wind chamber music at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. [4] In 2017 he was patron of the Instrument of the Year (Oboe) proclaimed by the Landesmusikrat Berlin . [5] Glaetzner is a member of the board of trustees of the Freunde des MDR Sinfonieorchesters. [6]
Frank Schneider counts him among the leading oboe virtuosos in the world. [7] As most important [8] oboist of his country, he encouraged "the development of an oboe repertoire in the GDR and Eastern Europe (Emmanouil Vitakis): [9] He has performed more than 100 works, including oboe concertos by Reiner Bredemeyer, Georg Katzer, Friedrich Schenker, Christfried Schmidt, Friedrich Goldmann, Luca Lombardi, Gerhard Rosenfeld, Krzysztof Meyer and Toru Takemitsu. [10]
Awarded numerous prizes at international music competitions, Glaetzner founded in 1968 the ensemble "Auslos trio" together with Wolfgang Weber (violoncello) and Klaus Schließer (bassoon). Later, Schließer moved up for Gerhard Erber (piano). With the trio he dedicated himself to baroque music and increasingly to new music. Together with the composer and pianist Friedrich Schenker he initiated the Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler. [11]
Glaetzner (GDR) performed with Ingo Goritzki (GDR) in an oboe duo. [12] Yun I-sang [13] and Reiner Bredemeyer among others wrote duets for them. [12] For solo pieces Glaetzner also worked among others with Nicolaus A. Huber, Hans-Karsten Raecke , Karl Ottomar Treibmann and Max E. Keller together. [10]
In addition, he developed the ensemble I Solisti Instrumentali Leipzig in 1983 from many years of work with various specialists in baroque interpretation. From 1988 to 2003 Glaetzner was artistic director of the chamber orchestra of the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum. Concert tours followed through Europe, Asia and America as well while numerous music productions awarded with international prizes complemented his manifold activities as soloist, conductor and teacher.
with the Eisler-Gruppe:
His discography consists of more than 50 recordings of old and new music.
Friedrich Goldmann was a German composer and conductor.
Georg Katzer was a German composer and teacher. The last master student of Hanns Eisler, he composed music in many genres, including works for the stage. Katzer was one of the pioneers of electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic and the founder of the first electronic-music studio in the GDR. He held leading positions in music organisations, first in the East, then in the united Germany, and received many awards, including the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic, the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the German Music Authors' Prize.
Günter Kochan was a German composer. He studied with Boris Blacher and was a master student for composition with Hanns Eisler. From 1967 until his retirement in 1991, he worked as professor for musical composition at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". He taught master classes in composition at the Academy of Music and the Academy of Arts, Berlin. He was also secretary of the Music Section of the Academy of Arts from 1972 to 1974 and vice-president of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR from 1977 to 1982. Kochan is one of eleven laureates to have been awarded the National Prize of the GDR four times. In addition, he received composition prizes in the US and Eastern Europe. He became internationally known in particular for his Symphonies as well as the cantata Die Asche von Birkenau (1965) and his Music for Orchestra No. 2 (1987). His versatile oeuvre included orchestral works, chamber music, choral works, mass songs and film music and is situated between socialist realism and avant-garde.
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Gerd Schenker is a German percussionist.
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Axel Schmidt is a German cor anglais player and oboist.
Gerhard Erber was a German classical pianist and academic teacher. He played as a member of the East German ensemble Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler, which focused on contemporary chamber music. He was a professor of piano at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, and organised a Bach competition in Köthen.
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Paul-Heinz Dittrich was a German composer and academic teacher. Based in East Berlin, he focused on chamber music, with many works inspired by poetry. His works were performed earlier in the West than in the East. He was an influential composer of contemporary music in Germany who taught internationally, including in the United States, Israel, and Korea.
The Hanns Eisler Prize was an East-German music award, named after the composer Hanns Eisler. It was awarded by Radio DDR – with advisory participation of the music section of the Akademie der Künste der DDR in Berlin (East) and the Verband der Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler der DDR (VDK) – and on the occasion of his 70th birthday on 6 July 1968, the first time in the ballroom of the Alten Rathaus. The Hanns Eisler Prize was endowed with 10,000 marks and was one of the most renowned music prizes in the German Democratic Republic.
Christfried Schmidt is a German composer and arrangeur.
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