Heinrich Strecker News
Austrian composer of operettas and popular Viennese music (1893-1981)
- operetta, Wienerlied
- Austria
- composer, film score composer
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2017-06-21 13:42:22
Going backwards: Kent Nagano to conduct ‘historically-informed’ Ring of the Nibelungen
[…] art and research together in a so to speak ideal-typical way by conducting research into the complex correlations involved in the musical-theatrical production of Wagner and translating the results into artistic practice.” Initial work already began in May of 2017. The official go-ahead for the project is a symposium in September, 2017. Financial support is provided by the Kunststiftung NRW and the Freunde von Concerto Köln e.V. Additional support is provided by the Strecker-Stiftung and MBL Akustikgeräte GmbH & Co. KG. Further information can be found at www.wagner-lesarten.de
2016-02-29 02:56:28
The following is a scholarly paper I wrote during my graduate studies at the New York University in the Fall of 2010, a requirement for professor Justin Dello Joio’s class “Compositional Process in the Symphony”. The genesis of Paul Hindemith’s Symphony Mathis der Maler is not a straightforward one. Not only did Hindemith not conceive it as a symphonic work, he was not even interested in its subject proposed to him in 1932 by his publisher friend Willy Strecker and a music writer Franz Willms. Mathis der Maler was to be an opera based on the life of a German Renaissance painter Mathis Nithart (or Gothart), also known as Mathis Grünewald, but Hindemith could not quite picture a painter on the operatic stage and neither could his librettist Gottfried Benn. The Mathis Grünewald idea was officially shelved and Hindemith’s attention was devoted instead to an opera depicting a love-affair between a […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-01-15 13:41:27
New music in mourning for leading publisher
An announcement from Schotts: It is with great sadness that Schott Music must announce that our dear colleague Judith Webb passed away on Friday 9 January following a short period of illness. Judith was Managing Director of our London office and a loyal and devoted member of staff for 35 years. Judith started her time with Schott London in 1980 as an administrative assistant and worked in a number of roles in the company before becoming Managing Director and joining the Schott London Board of Directors. She was also a member of the Music Publishers Association Board and was hugely liked and respected throughout the industry. All our thoughts are with Judith’s family at this time. Dr Peter Hanser-Strecker, Chairman of the Schott Music Group, commented: “It is hard to believe that our dear colleague and management board member Judith Webb is no longer […]
2015-01-15 13:40:40
Schott Music has announced the death of Judith Webb, managing director of its London office. Webb had worked at the publisher for 35 years, a contribution hailed by Schott creative director Sam Rigby as 'immense'. Peter Hanser-Strecker, chairman of ...
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