Dieter Rexroth

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Dieter Rexroth
Musicologist
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    Dieter Rexroth (6 March 1941 – 9 April 2024) was a German

    musicologist, dramaturge and cultural manager. He was intendant of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin from 1996, responsible also for choirs and orchestras in Berlin. He worked for major festivals including Frankfurter Feste at the Alte Oper, Young Euro Classic in Berlin and the Kasseler Musiktage. He wrote or edited books about composers including Paul Hindemith, Hans Werner Henze and Wolfgang Rihm
    .

    Biography

    Born in

    Arnold Schönberg.[1][2] He studied further for his habilitation, supportedby a scholarship of the Thyssen Foundation, writing about the vocal style of Richard Wagner.[1]

    Rexroth worked as a music journalist and critic for papers such as

    Aloys Kontarsky, Rainer Kussmaul, Siegfried Palm and Boris Pergamenschikow. He held Wagner seminars at the Internationales Jugendfestspieltreffen in Bayreuth in den 1970s.[1]

    From 1980 to 1994, Rexroth was dramaturge at the

    Beethoven.[1][2]

    From 1994 Rexroth developed an artistic event concept for

    intendant of the Lower Austrian cultural scene.[4]

    In 1996, Rexroth became intendant of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, responsible also for the RIAS Kammerchor, the Berliner Rundfunkchor and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.[5] He brought the conductor Kent Nagano to Berlin in 2000[3] and served as his dramaturgical consultant.[6] In 2000, he was among the founders of the Young Euro Classic festival for youth orchestras in Berlin and worked as its artistic director.[5] He followed Nagano as dramaturge and assistant to both the Bavarian State Opera and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, remaining in Munich until 2013.[4][6]

    Rexroth directed the Kasseler Musiktage [de] festival from 2005 to 2015. Since 2013, he was artistic director of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize,[1][3] where he designed a promotion of the prizewinners and being chairman of the jury for composition.[7]

    He was appointed honorary professor at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2016.[3]

    Rexroth died in Berlin on 9 April 2024,[2] at the age of 83.[8][3]

    Publications

    As author

    As editor

    References

    1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Dr. Dieter Rexroth" (in German). Berlin University of the Arts. 2024. Archived from the original on 31 July 2023. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
    2. ^ a b c d Schmitt-Ott, Thomas (9 April 2024). "Der Programmzauberer". Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (in German). Archived from the original on 10 April 2024. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
    3. ^ a b c d e f g "Früherer DSO-Intendant Dieter Rexroth verstorben" (in German). Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg. 9 April 2024. Archived from the original on 10 April 2024. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
    4. ^ a b "Kulturmanager Dieter Rexroth gestorben" (in German). ORF. 9 April 2024. Archived from the original on 9 April 2024. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
    5. ^ a b "Der Orchester-Intendant Dieter Rexroth ist tot" (in German). Deutschlandfunk. 9 April 2024. Archived from the original on 9 April 2024. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
    6. ^ a b Brug, Manuel (30 July 2013). "Sein vergifteter Abschied von Münchens Oper". Die Welt (in German). Archived from the original on 3 December 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
    7. ^ Jurymitglieder 2013: Rexroth, Dr. Dieter Archived 24 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine on fmb-hochschulwettbewerb.de
    8. ^ "Dieter Rexroth". BADSK (in German). 9 April 2024. Archived from the original on 31 July 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
    9. ^ Arnold Schönberg als Theoretiker der tonalen Harmonik on WorldCat
    10. ^ Museum 175 Jahre Frankfurter Museums-Gesellschaft e.V. on Worldcat
    11. ^ Paul Hindemith. Leben und Werk in Bild und Text on WorldCat
    12. ^ Beethovens Symphonien. Ein musikalischer Werkführer on WorldCat
    13. ^ Erprobungen und Erfahrungen. Zu Paul Hindemith's Schaffen in den zwanziger Jahren on WorldCat
    14. ^ Zwischen den Grenzen. Zum Aspekt des Nationalen in der neuen Musik on WorldCat

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