Ewald Körner (20 January 1926 in

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, Czechoslovakia –11 September 2010 in Bern''Ewald Körner ist gestorben.''
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''.) was a Czechoslovakian-German-Swiss clarinetist and

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Life

Körner was born in

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and studied piano and clarinet at the Deutsche Musikhochschule in Prague as well as conducting with

Joseph Keilberth Joseph Keilberth (19 April 1908 – 20 July 1968) was a German conductor who specialised in opera. Career He started his career in the State Theatre of his native city, Karlsruhe. In 1940 he became director of the German Philharmonic Orches ...

. After military service he was clarinetist at the Theater Magdeburg from 1946 to 1948. From 1948 to 1950 he studied conducting at the

Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (german: Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, italics=unset, abbreviated to HMTMH) is a university of performing arts and media in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Dating ...

. From 1951 to 1960 he was a solo repetiteur and later second Kapellmeister at

Staatstheater Braunschweig The Staatstheater Braunschweig is a theatre company and opera house in Braunschweig, Germany, presenting and producing music theatre (opera, operetta, musical), Tanztheater, theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences and concerts. The ''Staatstheater ...

. In 1956 he founded the Jeunesses Musicales Orchestra in Braunschweig. He came to Bern in 1960 as operetta conductor and worked from 1963 to 1991 as first conductor at the Stadttheater. During this time he conducted more than 103 premieres, including that of François Pantillon's ''Die Richterin'' in 1991. Körner was a permanent guest conductor of the

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. For many years he also conducted the International Opera Studio Lausanne and the conducting course of the Hochschule der Künste Bern. His students include

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, Christian Henking and Kaspar Zehnder.

Bibliography

References

External links

Ewald Körner
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