Heinz Bongartz
German conductor and composer
Heinz Bongartz (31 July 1894, Krefeld – 5 May 1978, Dresden) was a German conductor and composer. He was the first artistic manager of the Dresdner Philharmonie (Dresden Philharmonic Concert Halls) under the East German regime.[1] He headed the orchestra's first tour to the Middle East in January 1967 which began in Beirut, Lebanon. After performing at Beirut's Piccadilly Theatre they performed the first of three concerts at the Cairo Opera House on 8 June. The tour also included performances in Alexandria.[2]
References
- ^ Clayton, Anthony; Alan Russell (1999). Dresden: A City Reborn. Oxford; New York: Berg. p. 790. ISBN 1-85973-441-3.
- ^ Kelly, Elaine (2019). "Performing Diplomatic Relations: Music and East German Foreign Policy in the Middle East during the Late 1960s". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 72 (2): 494. JSTOR 26855885.
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- Heinz Bongartz discography
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Dresden Philharmonic Principal Conductors
- Hermann Mannsfeldt (1870)
- Michael Zimmermann (1885)
- Ernst Stahl (1886)
- August Trenkler (1890)
- Willy Olsen (1903)
- Edwin Lindner (1915)
- Joseph Gustav Mraczek (1923)
- Eduard Mörike (1924)
- Paul Scheinpflug (1929)
- Werner Ladwig (1932)
- Paul van Kempen (1934)
- Carl Schuricht (1942)
- Gerhart Wiesenhütter (1945)
- Heinz Bongartz (1947)
- Horst Förster (1964)
- Kurt Masur (1967)
- Günther Herbig (1972)
- Herbert Kegel (1977)
- Jörg-Peter Weigle (1986)
- Michel Plasson (1994)
- Marek Janowski (2001)
- Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (2004)
- Michael Sanderling (2011)
- Marek Janowski (2019)
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