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Robert Hanell (2 March 1925 – 14 March 2009) was a German
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and
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.


Life

Born in Tschoschl,
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, Hanell, who originally wanted to become a teacher of
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, took private music lessons with H. Zitterbart in
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, where he worked as
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and
choir conductor Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary duties o ...
from 1943. In 1944 he became musical director in
Meiningen Meiningen () is a town in the southern part of the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in the region of Franconia and has a population of around 26,000 (2024).
and held the same position from 1945 to 1948 at the Zwickauer Theater and from 1948 to 1950 at the . In 1952 Hanell became municipal
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in
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, before he was appointed first
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at the
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by
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in 1955. In 1965 he took over as chief conductor of the Großes Rundfunkorchester Berlin. He was also a permanent guest conductor at the
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, the
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, the
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and the
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. Guest appearances have taken him to Munich, Hanover, Frankfurt, Prague and Warsaw. On 2 September 1981, Hanell was awarded the Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin for his work as principal conductor of the Großes Rundfunkorchester Berlin and as permanent guest conductor of the Staatsoper. Hanell died in 2009 in
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aged 84.


Work


Stage works

* ''Die Bettler von Damaskus'', 1944,
Horst Seeger Horst Seeger (6 November 1926 – 2 January 1999), pseudonyme ''Horst Schell'', was a German musicologist, music critic, dramaturg, librettist and opera director. Leben Born in Erkner in the Province of Brandenburg, Seeger studied musicology at ...
: ''Musiklexikon Personen A–Z'' /
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(1981)
1947.Eintrag über Robert Hanell bei ''Felix Bloch Erben'' Verlag für Bühne, Film und Funk
/ref> * ''Cecil'',
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1946 * ''Die Gnomenwette'', Märchenoper 1948, 1949. * ''Die Spieldose'', Opera in 2 acts, libretto by Robert Hanell after the play by
Georg Kaiser Friedrich Carl Georg Kaiser, called Georg Kaiser, (25 November 1878 – 4 June 1945) was a German dramatist. Biography Kaiser was born in Magdeburg. He was highly prolific and wrote in a number of different styles. An Expressionist dramatist, ...
, Erfurt 1957 * ''Dorian Gray'', Opera with 9 scenes with 8 interludes, libretto by Robert Hanell after
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, UA Dresdner Staatsoper 9 June 1962 * ''Oben und unten'', UA Magdeburg 1964 * ''Esther'', Opera in 2 acts, libretto by
Günther Deicke Günther Deicke (21 October 1922 – 14 June 2006) was a German poet and journalist. Life Born in Hildburghausen, in 1940 Deicke joined the NSDAP. Under the Nazi regime he was Hitler Youth Führer. From 1941 to 1945, he was deployed as a sai ...
, Premiere Staatsoper Berlin 10 Oct. 1966 * ''Griechische Hochzeit'', UA Leipzig 31 May 1969 * ''Fiesta'', UA Weimar 1974 * ''Reise mit Joujou'',''Reise mit Joujou : musikalische Komödie (nach Maupassant) in zwei Akten''
on WorldCat
UA Landesbühnen Radebeul 9 Oct. 1976 * ''Babettes grüner Schmetterling'', 1984


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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanell, Robert 20th-century German classical composers German opera composers German conductors (music) 1925 births 2009 deaths Sudeten German people