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Christian Thielemann (born 1 April 1959, in Berlin) is a German conductor. He is Chief Conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden.
Contents
1 Career,
2 Recordings,
3 References,
4 Bibliography,
5 External links,
Career:
Thielemann studied viola and piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin and took private lessons in composition and conducting before becoming répétiteur aged 19 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Heinrich Hollreiser and working as Herbert von Karajan's assistant. He worked at a number of smaller German theatres including the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen, in Karlsruhe, Hanover, at Düsseldorf's Deutsche Oper am Rhein as First Kapellmeister and in Nürnberg as Generalmusikdirektor before returning to the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1991 to conduct Wagner's Lohengrin. During this time he also assisted Daniel Barenboim at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
His 1991/92 season debut in the United States, conducting a new production of Strauss' Elektra in San Francisco was soon followed by engagements at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 1997, he became Generalmusikdirektor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. A report in 2000 stated that Thielemann was to leave the Deutsche Oper in 2001 over artistic conflicts with the then-incoming artistic director Udo Zimmermann. Thielemann remained with the company until 2004, when he resigned over conflicts regarding Berlin city funding between the Deutsche Oper and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
Thielemann became principal conductor and music director of the Munich Philharmonic in September 2004. He is scheduled to step down from his Munich post in 2011, after disputes with orchestra management over final approval of selection of guest conductors and programs for the orchestra. In October 2009, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden announced the appointment of Thielemann as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2012/13 season.
Thielemann is a regular conductor at the Bayreuth and the Salzburg Festivals and he has been guest conductor at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Royal Opera House in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Vienna State Opera. With the decision in September 2008 of the Richard Wagner Festival Foundation to appoint Katharina Wagner and Eva Wagner-Pasquier to succeed Wolfgang Wagner as directors of the Bayreuth Festival, Thielemann was named Musical Advisor, effectively the Festival's music director.
He came into confrontation with both of Berlin's other leading conductors, Daniel Barenboim and Simon Rattle. Relations with Barenboim were tense after anti-semitic remarks were attributed in 2000 to Thielemann and subsequently denied. With Rattle, the rivalry was commercial. Thielemann's 2010 New Year's Eve concert from Dresden drew a larger television audience than Rattle's from Berlin and the German conductor was quick to step in when Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic withdrew in 2011 from their long-standing involvement in the Salzburg Easter Festival.
In 2003, Thielemann was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz). He is regarded as the leading exponent of the Austro-Germanic conducting tradition, in the manner of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Karajan. In October 2011, he received honorary membership of the Royal Academy of Music in London, a controversial appointment since he rarely conducted in the UK.
Recordings:
For Sony Music
Ludwig van Beethoven, "The Symphonies", Vienna Philharmonic, 2012,
For Profil
Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 8, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, October 2010,
For Opus Arte
Richard Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen with Michelle Breedt (de), Albert Dohmen (de), Stephen Gould, Hans-Peter König, Linda Watson and Eva-Maria Westbroek, Bayreuth Festival orchestra, recorded live during the 2008 Festival, November 2009,
For Brilliant Classics
Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Wagner, Pelleas und Melisande and Siegfried Idyll, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, November 2009,
For Decca
Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier DVD with Renée Fleming, Sophie Koch (de), Diana Damrau, Franz Hawlata (de) and Jonas Kaufmann, Munich Philharmonic, October 2009,
For Deutsche Grammophon
Der kleine Hörsaal, Dirigieren mit Christian Thielemann, July 2007,
Ludwig van Beethoven, Overture "Egmont" and Johannes Brahms, Symphony No.1, Munich Philharmonic, April 2007,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem, Munich Philharmonic and Choir of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, November 2006,
Richard Wagner, Parsifal, Choir and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, April 2006,
Anton Bruckner, Symphony No.5, Munich Philharmonic, March 2005,
Heinrich Marschner, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Carl Otto Nicolai, Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner, Overtures, Vienna Philharmonic, October 2004,
Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, May 2004,
Richard Strauss, Ein Heldenleben and Symphonic Fantasy of Die Frau ohne Schatten, Vienna Philharmonic, August 2003,
Albert Lortzing, Richard Strauss, Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner, Deutsche Opernarien with Thomas Quasthoff and the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, April 2002,
Robert Schumann, Symphonies No.1 and No.4, Philharmonia Orchestra, 2001,
Richard Strauss, Arabella with Kiri Te Kanawa and the Orchestra and Choir of the Metropolitan Opera, March 2001,
Richard Strauss, Eine Alpensinfonie and Suite of Der Rosenkavalier, Vienna Philharmonic, March 2001,
Arnold Schoenberg, Pelleas und Melisande and Richard Wagner, Siegfried Idyll, June 1999,
Carl Orff, Carmina Burana, Choir and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, May 1999,
Robert Schumann, Symphony No.3 "Rheinische", Overture "Genoveva", Op. 81, Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52, Philharmonia Orchestra, 1999,
Richard Wagner, Orchestra Music (Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde), Philadelphia Orchestra, February 1998,
Robert Schumann, Symphony No.2, Overture Manfred, Concert for 4 Horns, Op. 86, Philharmonia Orchestra, September 1997,
Ludwig van Beethoven, Funeral Cantata on the Death of the Emperor Joseph II, Robert Schumann, Konzertstück, Op. 86, for 4 Horns and Orchestra, Hans Pfitzner, Palestrina (Preludes to acts 1 and 2), 1997,
Hans Pfitzner, Music from Palestrina; Das Käthchen von Heilbronn; Richard Strauss, Guntram (prelude), Capriccio (prelude), Feuersnot (love scene), Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1996,
For EMI Classics
Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, Arias by René Kollo, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1992
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