Wolf-Dieter Hauschild

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Wolf-Dieter Hauschild (6 September 1937 – 18 May 2023) was a German conductor,

choirmaster, artistic director, composer, harpsichordist
and university lecturer.

After working for the

GDR authorities and moved to the FRG
.

In Stuttgart, he was appointed

Aalto Theater from 1992 to 1997. In the 2000s he returned to the new states of Germany and conducted the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle and the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock
. The latter appointed him its honorary conductor in 2004.

Especially with the Berlin and Leipzig radio sound institutions, he brought numerous contemporary works to the world premieres. He also recorded the complete choral works of Johannes Brahms. In Essen he could realize the complete Ring by Wagner.

Life

Greiz origin

Hauschild was born in 1937 as son[1] of the journalist and dramaturge Franz Hauschild (1907–1996) in Greiz.[2] His father was co-founder of the "Greizer Musikwochen" and the "Stavenhagen-Wettbewerb".[3] At the age of five, Hauschild received his first piano lessons, later he took up theatre.[4] Looking back he remembered Käthe Reichel, Reimar Johannes Baur and Dieter Franke with whom he had played in Greiz.[4] Early he began composing, among others he wrote a Children opera [de].[4] From the age of fifteen he composed incidental musics for the theatre of his home town.[4] As a high school student he also received musical composition lessons from Ottmar Gerster in Leipzig.[4]

Studies and professional beginnings in Weimar

At the age of seventeen

Staatsoper Unter den Linden.[4] He completed his training in master classes with Hermann Scherchen and Sergiu Celibidache.[6] Until 1956 he was influenced above all by his teacher Hermann Abendroth, whose "overall personality and authority" he greatly appreciated.[4] The latter let him work independently in Weimar with the Hochschulorchester [de] and lay choir.[4] Furthermore, for Hauschild the conductor and cultural politician Helmut Koch was "an artistic and human father figure.[4]

After his studies Hauschild began his artistic career as

Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar.[7] Also here he composed incidental music for plays. Soon he was allowed to conduct and rehearse contemporary works.[4] After two years he was Kapellmeister.[4] In 1963 in Weimar he brought Chodscha Nasreddin [de]'s opera[8] Der fröhliche Sünder of his teacher, Ottmar Gerster, for the world premiere.[9]

Station in Frankfurt (Oder)

Former Franciscan church, later Konzerthalle Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Frankfurt (Oder) (1967)

From 1963 to 1970 Hauschild was musical director at the Kleist Theater[6] and permanent conductor of the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt.[10] His tasks there extended accordingly to both the music theatre [de] and the concert series.[6] His repertoire included among others Verdi, Mozart and Bizet.[4] In 1966 he conducted the Kurt Hübenthal's production of Georg Friedrich Handel's opera Serse. He was also responsible for the world premiere of the symphonic work Schwedter Impulse by Nikolai Badinski[11] as well as the GDR premiere of the opera Der zerbrochene Krug by Zbynik Vostrak[12] and The Rake's Progress by Stravinsky.[4] Because of its proximity to Berlin, as Hauschild explained, renowned singers such as Reiner Süß could be won for roles.[4] With the politician Erich Mückenberger, Hauschild at the time advocated a new venue, the future Konzerthalle Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach [de].[4]

Engagement by the Berliner Rundfunk

In 1971 Hauschild was engaged at the

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.[13] On the radio he met Helmut Koch again, a "fateful acquaintance", as he would later remember.[4] So he represented him at the world premiere of Fritz Geißler's Oratorium Schöpfer Mensch.[14] Further premieres at the MaerzMusik in Berlin were to follow, among others in 1975 Jürgen Wilbrandt's Mein Haus hat Erde und Meer (speaker Horst Westphal)[15] and Ruth Zechlin's Klavierkonzert (with Eva Ander),[16] 1976 Wolfgang Strauß' 4. Sinfonie mit Sopran-Solo (with Renate Frank-Reinecke)[17] and Siegfried Matthus' Laudate pacem (with Renate Krahmer, Elisabeth Breul, Annelies Burmeister, Armin Ude and Hermann Christian Polster) and in 1977 Köhler's Der gefesselte Orpheus and Lothar Voigtländer's Canto General (with Brigita Šulcová).[18]

In 1976 Hauschild succeeded Herbert Kegel as leader of the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie.[19] Even after his move to Leipzig, he cultivated the connection to the capital and was a guest conductor at the Deutsche Staatsoper and the Komische Oper Berlin.[10] Thus he took over the musical direction of the Götz Friedrich's production of Verdi's Il trovatore.[20]

Choral conducting with the RSO and Rundfunkchor Leipzig

After conducting works by

MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig.[10] He was able to assert himself against the Leipzig general music director Rolf Reuter and the Halle music director Thomas Sanderling, all of whom had been engaged as guest conductors by the legendary predecessor Herbert Kegel.[10] In Leipzig, Hauschild maintained the First Viennese School,[21] thus he continued the "Mozartiana" series begun by Kegel.[22] He also continued to put Concert performances on the programme (Janáček, Wagner among others).[21] On the other hand, he brought with the symphony orchestra and the chamber orchestra various Neue Musik works to world premieres – 1978 Edison Denisov' Konzert für Klavier und Orchester (with Günter Philipp), 1979 Lombardi's Sinfonie, Neubert's Notturno, Lohse's Konzert für Klavier und Orchester (with Gerhard Erber) and Dessau's Vierzehn Stücke aus "Internationale Kriegsfibel" (with Helga Termer, Elisabeth Wilke, Horst Gebhardt and Bernd Elze), 1980 Katzer's Konzert für Klavier und Orchester (with Rolf-Dieter Arens) and Wallmann's Stadien für Orchester und Klavier (with Bettina Otto),[23] 1981 Schenker's "Fanal Spanien 1936", 1983 Lombardis Zweite Sinfonie and Krätzschmar's Heine-Szenen (with Wolfgang Hellmich).[24] He was also responsible for several DDR premieres among others in 1979 Ives's Holiday Symphony[25] and 1984 Zimmermann's Pax Questuosa[26] and Dittrich's Etym.[27] Like Kegel before him, he always placed contemporary music before Beethoven's 9th Symphony at the end of the season.[28] Moreover, he again invited composer-conductors to Leipzig, such as Milko Kelemen, Ernst Krenek and Witold Lutosławski.[28] With the 1979/80 season he introduced weekly morning concerts in the Kongreßhalle Leipzig.[28] After the opening of the Neue Gewandhaus in Leipzig in 1981, the Rundfunkorchester played regularly in the new concert building.[29] This was followed by an increase in the number of concerts.[29] Hauschild made several recordings with the orchestra, ranging from the music of Telemann and Schumann to Ives, Denissow, Thiele and Krätzschmar,[30] including the complete choral works of Johannes Brahms and several oratorios by Handel.[13] Extensive guest performances took him among others to the Soviet Union with the Orchestra[21] and Japan.[31] After his departure from Leipzig, it took two seasons before the leadership positions could be filled again with Max Pommer (orchestra) and Jörg-Peter Weigle (choir).[32]

The Semperoper in Dresden (1985)

In the course of his opera performances in Leipzig, Berlin and Dresden, Hauschild became the "Wagner conductor of the hour" by the mid-1980s, as Robert Schuppert put it.

New York Times.[36] The Dresden musicologist Dieter Härtwig (2007) rated Hauschild "among the leading conductors in the GDR".[37]

Relocation to the BRD and Stuttgart

After an originally promised

Akiko Tatsumi).[41] Concert tours with the Philharmonic have taken him through Europe, Japan and the USA.[37] According to the cultural journalist Frank Armbruster, he took the orchestra "to a high point in its history.[42] In the end, however, Hauschild left Stuttgart because "he had not succeeded in convincing the city of the need for additional orchestra positions for the Philharmonic," as Armbruster remarked.[42]

In addition to his engagement in Stuttgart, he was guest conductor of the Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover,[43] with which he premiered Kelemen's Archetypon in 1986. In 1986 he conducted the Staatsorchester Stuttgart bei der Loriot-Inszenierung von Flatows's Martha am Staatstheater Stuttgart.[44] With the NDR Radiophilharmonie oblag ihm 1992 die Uraufführungen von Tal's 6. Sinfonie.[45]

Director at the Aalto-Theater in Essen

In 1991 Hauschild became conductor of the

Mahler, which, however, had to remain "platonic" for a long time, as he explained in an earlier interview. [33] Hauschild also turned his attention to contemporary Eastern European music, premiering Suslin's Farewell in 1993 and Denissow's Concerto for Flute, Clarinet and Orchestra (with Dagmar Becker and Wolfgang Meyer
) in 1996. His engagement in Essen ended in 1997.

From 1998 to 2001 he was a freelance[52] He also was active conductor e.g. at the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano.

Chief conductor in Halle (Saale) and Rostock

From 2001 to 2004 he was the successor of the permanent guest conductor Bernhard Klee[53] and Chief conductor of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle.[54] In 2003 he premiered Jean-Christophe Marti's H aspiré at the Neues Theater Halle.[55] With reference to the planned orchestra merger, which he rejected, he ended his engagement with the Philharmonic State Orchestra early.[56]

Besides his engagement in Halle, he was Generalmusikdirektor of the Volkstheater Rostock and Chefdirigent of the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock from August[13] 2002 until 2004,[57] where he became a permanent guest conductor in 2000.[58] Because, as he later explained, he could not find "an artistic and human consensus" with the artistic director Steffen Piontek, he left the orchestra.[57]

Hauschild had been a guest conductor in Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Spain, Finland, Taiwan and other countries.[13]

Teaching commitments

After having studied at the

Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin and the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig Hauschild initially held teaching posts,[citation needed] and was appointed professor for orchestra conducting at both music academies in 1981.[59] In 1988 he became professor for orchestra conducting at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart.[5] Hauschild also taught as professor of conducting from 1989 to 2003 at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe.[13]

In 1983 he founded the "Seminar for Young Opera Conductors" in Altenburg.[60] Repeatedly he was then also artistic director for orchestral conducting at the Dirigentenforum [de] of the Deutscher Musikrat (Essen 1994, Koblenz 1998 and 2005, Halle (Saale) 2001, Rostock 2002 and 2004 and Bremen 2006).[61] In the winter semester 2005/06 and the summer semester 2007 he was Docent for auditions in the orchestra / symphony concert at Orchesterzentrum NRW [de].[62]

Among his students were Michael Gläser,[63] Constantin Trinks and Hendrik Vestmann.[64]

Personal life and death

Hauschild, a Protestant, married in 1959 and was the father of two children.[65] His son Thomas Hauschild (born 1964) is a professor of horn at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.[66]

Hauschild died in Leipzig on 18 May 2023, at the age of 85.[67]

Awards

Culture prizes
Record prizes
Other honours

Compositions

Hauschild composed the following incidental music:[75]

Discography

Harpsichordist
Conductor

Literature

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