Franz Konwitschny - Anton Bruckner Symphonies 8 & 9 conducted by Franz Konwitschny (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Franz Konwitschny (* August 14, 1901 in Fulnek, North Moravia; † July 28, 1962 in Belgrade) was a German conductor.

Konvichny came from a Moravian family of musicians. From 1920 to 1923 he first took violin lessons at the Academy of the Musikverein in Brno, before becoming a pupil of Hans Bassermann at the Conservatory of Music in Leipzig from April 1923 to 1925. During this time he was temporarily employed as a violinist and violist in the Gewandhaus Orchestra. in 1925 Konwitschny became a member of the Fitzner Quartet in Vienna as a violist and went to Stuttgart in 1927, first as a accompanist, since 1930 as 1st Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater. At the beginning of the 1933/34 season, he went to Freiburg im Breisgau as musical director of the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra, where he was appointed general music director in 1934. In 1938 he became music director and musical director of the Opera in Frankfurt am Main.

Career in the Nazi state:
Konwitschny joined the NSDAP for the first time on 1 July 1923 in Fulnek, Moravian-Ostrava County (member number 2,756). His political conviction at that time was also expressed in a Freiburg Fidelio performance from 1934, where he wanted to stage SA men and SA flags on the occasion of Hitler's birthday, but this was prohibited by the artistic director. On the other hand, in November of the same year, in a subscription concert, he conducted the symphony Mathis der Maler by the ostracized composer Paul Hindemith. On August 1, 1937, Konvichny re-entered the NSDAP (No. 5 508,995). On October 16, 1937, Konwitschny conducted Bruckner's Germanenzug at the closing rally of the 2nd Baden Gaukulturwoche, which was held under the motto "Race and Culture", before Alfred Rosenberg's speech. In December 1942, Konwitschny was a guest conductor in the ghetto city of Łódź, where, according to the Litzmannstädter Zeitung of December 17, 1942, the "musical style carried by the strongest vitality" fascinated.

TRACKLIST

1. Franz Konwitschny - 01 Allegro moderato
2. Franz Konwitschny - 02 Scherzo. Allegro moderato - Trio. Langsam
3. Franz Konwitschny - 03 Adagio. Feierlich langsam, doch nicht schleppend
4. Franz Konwitschny - 04 Finale. Feierlich, nicht schnell
5. Franz Konwitschny - 05 Feierlich, misterioso (Live)
6. Franz Konwitschny - 06 Scherzo. Bewegt, lebhaft (Live)
7. Franz Konwitschny - 07 Adagio. Langsam, feierlich (Live)



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