Ádám Fischer

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Ádám Fischer, 2008

Ádám Fischer (born 9 September 1949 in Budapest) is a Hungarian conductor. He is the general music director of the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, chief conductor of the Danish Chamber Orchestra, and chief conductor of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker.

Career

Ádám Fischer is an elder brother of the conductor

Die Zauberflöte
.

Fischer studied piano and composition at the Bartók Conservatory (

Die Zauberflöte
. Between 1987 and 1992, he was the general music director in Kassel.

Fischer began a long collaboration with the Vienna State Opera in 1973. In January 2017, he was named an honorary member of the company.[1]

In 1987, Fischer established the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra and started the Haydn Festival in the Austrian city of Eisenstadt. He has recorded the complete Haydn symphonies for the Nimbus label, the first digital recording of the cycle, with the orchestra. In July 1989, Fischer started the first Gustav Mahler Festivals in Kassel. In 1998, Fischer was appointed chief conductor of the Danish National Chamber Orchestra.[2] Fischer has recorded the complete Opere serie by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with this orchestra, and is currently recording Mozart's complete symphonies.

At the end of 2010 Fischer resigned as Music Director of the Hungarian State Opera in protest against the controversial media law introduced in Hungary in 2011.[3][4] Speaking in Brussels on 11 January 2011 he told reporters:

'A lot of the attention has focused on the new law but the problems run far deeper. Even more worrying are changes to the national constitution that are being drafted and the rise of anti-Semitism, homophobia and xenophobia in Hungarian society.'[4]

Fischer joined with András Schiff, Miklós Jancsó and others in an open letter condemning the Hungarian government's record on these issues.[5][3]

Fischer has recorded commercially for Nimbus, CBS, EMI, Hungaroton, Delta, Dacapo and Naxos. In 1982, he won the Grand Prix du Disque. In 2018, he was the laureate of the Wolf Prize in Arts.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Maestro Adam Fischer zum Ehrenmitglied der Wiener Staatsoper ernannt" (Press release). Vienna State Opera. 27 January 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  2. ^ "Koncerthuset". Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  3. ^ a b Szemere Katalin (24 September 2010). "Kultúra: Miért mondott le Fischer Ádám? – NOL.hu". NOL.hu. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  4. ^ a b Mock, Vanessa (12 January 2011). "Hungary's artists". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
  5. ^ "Friends of Adam Fischer – Home". haydnphil.org.
  6. Jerusalem Post
    .

Sources

External links

Media related to Ádám Fischer at Wikimedia Commons

Cultural offices
Preceded by
(no predecessor)
 Chief Conductor, Österreichisch-Ungarische Haydn-Philharmonie
1987–present 		Succeeded by
incumbent
Preceded by Chief Conductor, Dusseldorf Symphony Orchestra
2015–present 		Succeeded by
incumbent
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