Sergiu Celibidache (Conductor)
Born: June 28, 1912 - Roman, Romania
Died: August 14, 1996 -
Paris, France
The transcedentaly endowed Romanian conductor, Sergiu
Celibidache, studied Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of Bucharest.
In 1936 he went to Berlin and continued his studies, largely concerning himself
with wave mechanics, but also with musical studies. He wrote his doctorate on
Josquin des Pres. From 1939 to 1945 he studied and the Berlin College of Music
under Fritz Stein, Kurt Thomas and
Walter Gmeindl.
After completing his studies, Sergiu Celibidache was
immediately able to work with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra because the
orchestra's previous conductor, Wilhelm
Furtwängler, was suspected of collaboration and received no permit for
public performances. For three years, he conducted most concerts of the famous
orchestra and proved his exceptional personality. After Wilhelm
Furtwängler's return as the head of the orchestra he mainly worked as a
guest conductor without committing himself to any single orchestra for a long
period, because his demands were almost impossible to fulfil, and he himself was
not willing to make any concessions to his musicians or audience. At first, he
continued to work mainly with Berlin orchestras - the Philharmonic
Orchestra and the RIAS Berlin Radio Orchestra. After the appointment of Herbert von
Karajan as the principal conductor of the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra, Celibidache did not conduct the orchestra again for
another 37 years.
1948 saw the debut of Sergiu Celibidache in London.
Then he frequently conducted in Italy. From 1959 he was regularly invited by the
Stuttgart Radio Orchestra. From 1960 to 1962 he held master courses at the
Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena; the young conductors were extremely keen
to be admitted. In 1962 he became the director of the Stockholm Radio Symphony
Orchestra, which he completely rebuilt (until 1971). From 1973 to 1975 he was
the primary permanent guest conductor of the French Orchestre National. In 1979
he became the director of the Munich
Philharmonic Orchestra, which he made one of the best orchestras in the
world. In Munich he held master courses in orchestral conducting. Although his
severe illness he didn't stop conducting until a few month before his
death.
Sergiu Celibidache conducted the first performances of Günther
Bialas' Lamento di Orlando (1986), Harald Genzmer's Symphony No. 3
(1986), Peter Michael Hamel's Symphony in three parts (1988) and
Undine and Jeux des Tritons by Hans Werner Henze. Sergiu
Celibidache also composed, but he refused to allow any performances of his
compositions.
Source: Great Conductors Website
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