Английская Википедия:Caspar Richter
Шаблон:Self published Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Caspar Richter (16 September 1944 – 2 February 2023) was a German conductor. He conducted world premieres of operas at Deutsche Oper Berlin, such as Wilhelm Dieter Siebert's Untergang der Titanic and Toshiro Mayuzumi's Kinkakuji. He was the chief conductor of the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien for 23 years, focused on the production of new musicals such as Elisabeth, and German premieres of popular musicals such as A Chorus Line.
Life and career
Caspar Richter was born in Lübeck in 1944. His father was a pastor at the Protestant Aegidienkirche, and Caspar grew up with many siblings. He sang in the Knabenkantorei,Шаблон:What? studied the piano, and then learned to play the organ.[1]Шаблон:When? He worked as a bar pianist in Travemünde on the weekends.Шаблон:When? While he was studying in Hamburg, he founded a Neue Musik ensemble.[2]Шаблон:When
In 1969 Lorin Maazel offered him a position as assistant conductor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he was promoted to Kapellmeister three years later. He conducted there Boris Blacher's Preußisches Märchen, world premieres such as Шаблон:Ill's Fettklößchen, Wilhelm Dieter Siebert's Untergang der Titanic,[2] and Toshiro Mayuzumi's Kinkakuji.[3] and a production of Lehár's Die lustige Witwe staged by August Everding with Gwyneth Jones and René Kollo in the leading roles. He also conducted the RIAS-Jugendorchester for several years.[2]
Richter was a co-founder of the orchestra of the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien,[3] focused on musicals, and conducted it for 23 years. According to his obituary in Wiener Zeitung, to the classically trained Richter, there was no fundamental difference between “light music” and complex classical music as long as they met his standards.[4] They performed the world premieres of first Freudiana in 1990, Elisabeth, Mozart!, Шаблон:Ill in 2002 and Rebecca, and the premieres in German of A Chorus Line, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and Romeo et Juliette.[3] He also conducted contemporary classical music,[2] such as Antonio Bibalo, Boris Blacher, Luigi Dallapiccola, Gottfried von Einem, Hans Werner Henze and Aribert Reimann.[3]
He taught at the Friedrich Gulda School of Music in Vienna.[3]
Richter died on 2 February 2023.[2][4]Шаблон:Where?
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