Horst Walter Stein (born 2 May 1928 in Elberfeld) is a German conductor. Events 1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. See also Elberfeld Indiana. For the baseball player with this name see Kid Elberfeld. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Conducting is the act of directing a Musical performance by way of visible gestures His father was a mechanic. At school in Frankfurt, he studied piano, oboe, and singing. Later, he continued studies at the university in Köln, including lessons in composition with Philipp Jarnach. From 1947 to 1951, he was a repetiteur in Wuppertal.
In 1955, Stein conducted at the opening of the restored Berlin State Opera (Unter den Linden)[1], and subsequently worked there as a Staatskapellmeister. Staatsoper Unter den Linden ( Berlin State Opera) is a prominent German Opera company Unter den Linden ("under the linden trees" is a Boulevard in the centre of Berlin, the capital of Germany. From 1961-1963, he worked under the leadership of Rolf Liebermann] as deputy chief conductor at the Hamburg State Opera. Rolf Liebermann ( September 14, 1910 &ndash January 2, 1999) born in Zurich, was a Swiss composer of different kinds of The Hamburg State Opera (in German Hamburgische Staatsoper) is one of the leading Opera companies in Germany. From 1963-1970, Stein served as chief conductor and director of opera at the Mannheim National Theatre. Mannheim is a City in Germany. With 327318 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg after the capital Stuttgart Stein held a regular post at the Vienna State Opera from 1969-1971. The Vienna State Opera ( Wiener Staatsoper) located in Vienna, Austria, is one of the most important Opera houses - and opera companies - in He returned to the Hamburg State Opera as General Music Director from 1972 to 1977
In 1952, Stein began work as a conducting assistant at the Bayreuth Festival to such conductors as Joseph Keilberth, Hans Knappertsbusch, Clemens Krauss and Herbert von Karajan. The Bayreuth Festival is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of Operas by the 19th century German composer Joseph Keilberth ( April 19, 1908 &ndash July 20, 1968) was a German conductor. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Hans Knappertsbusch ( March 12, 1888 &ndash October WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Clemens Heinrich Krauss ( March 31, 1893 &ndash WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Herbert von Karajan ( April 5 From 1969 to 1986, he conducted 76 performances there, including the 1983 Bayreuth centenary production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Bayreuth ( pronounced) is a City in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Frankish Alb Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg) is an Opera in three acts written and composed by Richard Wagner [2]
He has held principal conducting positions with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Basel Symphony Orchestra. He is especially associated with the music of Max Reger, and has recorded several Reger works. Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger ( March 19 1873 &ndash May 11 1916) was a German Composer, conductor
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- Horst Walter Stein discography (German)
| Preceded by Witold Rowicki |
Principal Conductor, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra 1985-1996 |
Succeeded by Jonathan Nott |
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