Kurt Sanderling
Kurt Sanderling,CBE(‹See Tfd›Russian:Курт Игнатьевич Зандерлинг,romanized:Kurt Ignatyevich Zanderling;19 September 1912 – 18 September 2011) was a German conductor.
Early life and career
[edit]Sanderling was born inArys,Kingdom of Prussia,German Empire(nowOrzysz,Poland) to Jewish parents. His early work at theDeutsche Oper Berlin,where he served as repetiteur (rehearsal director) forWilhelm FurtwänglerandErich Kleiber,was cut short when the Nazi regime removed him from his post because he was Jewish.[1]
He then left for the Soviet Union in 1936, where he worked with theMoscow Radio Symphony Orchestra.In 1939, he became conductor of the Kharkiv Philharmonic Orchestra.[2]During the siege of Leningrad, he worked inNovosibirsk.[3]From 1942 to 1960, he was joint principal conductor withYevgeny Mravinskyof theLeningrad Philharmonic.Around 1942–1943, Sanderling first metDmitri Shostakovich,which marked the start of their professional working relationship and personal friendship.[1][2]
Post-1960
[edit]In 1960, Sanderling returned to East Germany to take up the chief conductorship of theBerlin Symphony Orchestra,where he remained until 1977. From 1964 to 1967, he was chief conductor of theDresden Staatskapelle.He made his British debut in 1970. His first guest-conducting appearance with thePhilharmonia Orchestrawas in 1972, as a substitute forOtto Klemperer.Their working relationship further developed after a January 1980 series of performances of the completeBeethovensymphonies atWembley,and a subsequent commercial recording of the Beethoven symphonies for EMI. The Philharmonia appointed Sanderling its Conductor Emeritus in 1996.[2]He was also Emeritus Conductor of theMadrid Symphony Orchestra.[4]In the US, he worked with particular frequency as a guest conductor with theLos Angeles Philharmonic.[5]
Sanderling announced his retirement from conducting in May 2002.[5]In September 2002, Sanderling was appointed a Commander of theOrder of the British Empire(CBE) and awarded theErnst ReuterPlaque of Berlin, the city's highest honour.[6]In addition to his Philharmonia Beethoven symphony cycle, his commercial recordings include the Beethoven piano concertos with pianistMitsuko Uchida,[7]Nos. 3, 4 with theRoyal Concertgebouw Orchestraand Nos. 1, 2 and 5 with theBavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.He was among the first conductors to perform and recordDeryck Cooke's completion ofGustav Mahler'sSymphony No. 10,which his friendBerthold Goldschmidthad premiered.
Sanderling died on 18 September 2011, one day before his 99th birthday in Berlin.[8][9][10]
Personal life
[edit]He was married twice. His first marriage to Nina Bobath was in 1941, and produced a son,Thomas Sanderling,who became a conductor. His first marriage ended in divorce after his return to East Germany. His second wife was the former Barbara Wagner, a double bassist in the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. They married in 1963,[6]and their marriage produced two sons, the conductorsStefan SanderlingandMichael Sanderling.[2]
Publications
[edit]- 2002: Kurt Sanderling and Ulrich Roloff-Momin:Andere machen Geschichte, ich machte Musik.Parthas, Berlin 2002, 431 pp., ill., discographie,ISBN3-932529-35-9,(Biography; in German)
Film
[edit]- Seine Liebe zu Brahms. Kurt Sanderling unterrichtet die 4. Sinfonie.(with the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart of the SWR) Documentation, 60 Min., a film by Norbert Beilharz, First transmission: 2. November 2003.
References
[edit]- ^abWilliam Grimes (20 September 2011)."Kurt Sanderling, Eastern Bloc Conductor, Dies at 98".The New York Times.Retrieved27 August2015.
- ^abcdDavid Nice (18 September 2011)."Kurt Sanderling obituary".The Guardian.Retrieved27 August2015.
- ^Mary Rourke (19 September 2011)."Conductor thrived behind Iron Curtain".Los Angeles Times.Retrieved27 August2015.
- ^"Director Honorífico"(in Spanish). Madrid Symphony Orchestra. Archived fromthe originalon 9 September 2009.Retrieved17 August2009.
- ^abJohn Fleming (21 September 2003)."Off the record, one of the masters".St Petersburg Times.Retrieved27 August2015.
- ^ab"Kurt Sanderling".The Telegraph.19 September 2011.Retrieved27 August2015.
- ^Nicholas Wroe (20 December 2002)."Fingers on the pulse".The Guardian.Retrieved27 August2015.
- ^Mort du chef d'orchestre Kurt Sanderling - Lefigaro.fr (French), 18 September 2011
- ^YOMIURI ONLINE (Japanese), 18 September 2011
- ^Peter Uehling."Andere machten Geschichte, er machte Musik".Berliner Zeitung.Archived fromthe originalon 20 July 2012.Retrieved21 September2011."gestorben, am Sonnabend, zwei Tage vor seinem 99. Geburtstag" (German), 21 September 2011
External links
[edit]
- Erik Eriksson."Kurt Sanderling Biography".All Music.Retrieved22 September2007.
- John Fleming (21 September 2003)."Tearing down the walls".St. Petersburg Times.Retrieved22 September2007.
- Discographyat theWayback Machine(archived 26 October 2009)
- 1912 births
- 2011 deaths
- People from Orzysz
- Musicians from East Prussia
- 20th-century German conductors (music)
- German male conductors (music)
- Jewish classical musicians
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany
- Refugees from Nazi Germany in the Soviet Union
- Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany
- Honorary members of the Royal Academy of Music
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- 20th-century German male musicians
- East German musicians
- Sanderling family