Michael Gielen
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Biography
The conductor Michael Gielen was born into a musical family in Dresden, Germany in 1927. His father Joseph was a highly respected theatre director and on his mother's side he was the nephew of Edward Steuermann, the Austrian pianist and composer, and the actress Salka Viertel.
Having moved to Buenos Aires as a teenager he escaped the horrors of wartime Dresden and studied music privately with Erwin Leuchter. He began his career as a conductor at the age of 20, serving as a répétiteur of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires between 1947 and 1950. That year he returned to Germany to take up the position of conductor at the Vienna State Opera, a position he held for ten years before accepting jobs at various venues throughout Europe in the 1960s and '70s. These included the Royal Swedish Opera, the Netherlands Opera, the Frankfurt Opera and Belgian National Orchestra.
In the 1980s he moved to the United States to perform with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra before returning to Germany in 1986 to perform with the Southwest German Radio Orchestra, an ensemble he has been closely associated with ever since. Gielen retired from conducting in 2014 due to ill health and failing eyesight.
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Albums
Michael Gielen
Stäbler: ..im unaufhörlichen Wirbel... World Premiere Recordings (Digitally Remastered)
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Michael Gielen
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor & Richard Wagner: Lohengrin - Preludes
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Top Tracks
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- Schoenberg: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 42 - Molto allegro featuring Michael Gielen
- Rachengold (1992) Secret score for one vocalist with a glass of water and big stopwatch
- Co-wie Kobaldt (1989-90) for double bass solo and large orchestra: Co-wie Kobalt: A-D
- 1. Introduzione (Dans la vallée des songes) by Michael Gielen
- 2. Allegro (Le fée, Don Quichotte et la sentimentale) by Michael Gielen
- 3. Adagio (Les trois cygnes blancs) by Michael Gielen
- 4. Tempo di marcia (Les trois paladins) by Michael Gielen
- Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 featuring Michael Gielen
- Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38 - Con fuoco featuring Michael Gielen
- Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38 - Adagio featuring Michael Gielen
- Canto di speranza, Cantata for Cello and Small Orchestra by Michael Gielen
- Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61: III. Rondo. Allegro featuring SWR Baden-Baden and Freiburg Symphony Orchestra
- [APPARAT] (1994-95) for mixed choir, clarinet, accordion, double bass and percussion: Oiseaux mécaniques
- Schoenberg: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 42 - Andante featuring Michael Gielen
- Heiss! (1998) for organ
- Trumpet Concerto "Nobody Knows the Trouble I See"
- 2. Rhapsodie by Michael Gielen
- 3. Finale by Michael Gielen
- JC/NY (1992) for 3, 4, 5 or seven players with manipulators and audience
- 5. Blues e coda (La fée, le violoncelle et la contrebasse) by Michael Gielen
- [APPARAT] (1994-95) for mixed choir, clarinet, accordion, double bass and percussion: Rencontre - Musée
- 1. Hommage à Strawinsky by Michael Gielen
- Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1, BB 91, Sz. 83 - II. Andante by Michael Gielen
- Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1, BB 91, Sz. 83 - I. Allegro moderato - Allegro by Michael Gielen
