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ALBUMMartha Modl: The Portrait of a Legend (1950-1982)Heinrich Hollreiser, RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Martha Modl, Ludwig Suthaus, Hertha Töpper, Bavarian State Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth, Bayerische Staatsopernchor, Ferdinand Leitner, Grace Hoffman, Gustav Neidlinger, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Georges Sebastian, Orchestre Symphonique de Vichy, Otmar Suitner, Staatskapelle Berlin, Wurttemberg State Theatre Orchestra Stuttgart, Reinhard Peters, South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Josef Greindl, Graz Opera Chorus, Graz Symphony Orchestra, Niksa Bareza & Michael Raucheisen
ALBUMDvorak, A.: Rusalka (Trotschel, H. Schindler, Keilberth) (1948) (Staatskapelle Dresden Edition, Vol. 6)Staatskapelle Dresden, Dresden State Opera Chorus, Joseph Keilberth, Eva Fleischhauer, Edith Hellriegel, Kurt Preuss, Elfriede Trötschel, Helmut Schindler, Ruth Lange, Kate Hofgen, Helena Rott, Gottlob Frick, Lisa Otto & Erich Zimmermann
ALBUMDie Grossen OpernchoreStuttgart State Opera Chorus, Stuttgart State Orchestra, Peter Schrottner, Ferdinand Leitner, Wurttemberg State Theatre Chorus Stuttgart, Wurttemberg State Theatre Orchestra Stuttgart, Robert Shaw Chorale, Renato Cellini, The RCA Victor Orchestra, Bayreuth Festival Chorus, Joseph Keilberth, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra, RIAS Chamber Chorus, Richard Kraus, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Vienna Philharmonic, Heinrich Hollreiser, Arthur Rother, Munich Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Fritz Lehmann, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Peter Eichhorn, Munich State Opera Chorus, Beniamino Gigli, Philharmonia Chorus, Stanford Robinson & Philharmonic Orchestra
ALBUMMozart, W.A.: Magic Flute (The) [Opera]Gisela Litz, Peter Esser, Joseph Keilberth, Horst Otto Rainer, Erich Kunz, Kurt Lieck, Hans Hotter, Käthe Möller-Siepermann, Kurt Marschner, Hermann Thimig, Hilla Oppel, Kristina Sert, Hanna Ludwig, Teresa Stich-Randall, Annelies Kupper, Wilhelm Lückert, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wilma Lipp, Rudolf Schock, Elisabeth Lindermeier, Josef Greindl, Cologne Radio Chorus & Walter Kreppel
About Joseph Keilberth
Artist Biography
Joseph Keilberth was a German conductor active during the mid-twentieth century. His talents developed early: he pursued a general education and musical training in Karlsruhe, and at the age of seventeen joined the Karlsruhe State Theater as a répétiteur (vocal coach--a common starting place for European conductors). He remained with the theater and ten years later he was appointed general music director.
He remained there until 1940, when he was appointed chief conductor of the German Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. He became chief conductor of the Dresden State Opera in 1945. With a minimum of disruption for deNazification (official Allied certification that he was not implicated in Nazi crimes) he remained in that position until 1950.
In 1949 he became chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, which was in fact a reunion: After the War, the German population of the Sudetenland (the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia), which had been the excuse for Hitler's occupation of the country, were returned to Germany, and with them went the German Philharmonic of Prague, Keilberth's old orchestra, which settled in Bamberg. Causing unwary biographers some confusion, he also became the chief conductor of the Hamburg Philharmonic in 1950.
He frequently appeared as a guest conductor elsewhere in Germany, notably with the Berlin Philharmonic and, beginning in 1952, the Bayreuth Festival, and appeared regularly at the Salzburg and Lucerne festivals. In 1952 he also led his first performance in the Edinburgh Festival with the Hamburg State Opera.
He was a favored conductor for the Ring and other operas through 1956. In 1959 he succeeded Ferenc Fricay at the helm of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. There, history repeated itself. Keilberth died after collapsing during a performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, just as Felix Mottl--conductor at the same theater--had done in 1911.
Keilberth was very strong in Mozart and in the Wagnerian repertory, and in later German classics such as Pfitzner, Bruckner, Richard Strauss, Max Reger, and Paul Hindemith. His classic recordings included Hindemith's opera Cardillac.
Hometown
Karlsruhe, Germany
Genre
Classical
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