Talk:Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

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[edit] Gewandhauskapellmeister

Now we have some mismatch here concerning the principal conductors ("Gewandhauskapellmeister") in the 19th century. The official Gewandhaus homepage [1] (watch the changing picture at the bottom of the page) lists the Gewandhauskapellmeister as follows:

  1. 1781–1785 Johann Adam Hiller
  2. 1785–1810 Johann Gottfried Schicht
  3. 1827–1835 Christian August Pohlenz
  4. 1835–1847 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
  5. 1843–1844 Ferdinand Hiller
  6. 1844–1848 Niels Wilhelm Gade
  7. 1848–1860 Julius Rietz
  8. 1860–1895 Carl Reinecke
  9. 1895–1922 Arthur Nikisch
  10. 1922–1928 Wilhelm Furtwängler
  11. 1929–1933 Bruno Walter
  12. 1934–1945 Hermann Abendroth
  13. 1946–1948 Herbert Albert
  14. 1949–1962 Franz Konwitschny
  15. 1964–1968 Václav Neumann
  16. 1970–1996 Kurt Masur
  17. 1998–2005 Herbert Blomstedt
  18. since 2005 Riccardo Chailly

On the other hand, Riccardo Chailly is counted as 19th Gewandhauskapellmeister on the same page. Johann Philipp Christoph Schulz is missing in this list, maybe due to the lack of a picture? Heinz Bongartz is also missing, but I found no reference of him having been Gewandhauskapellmeister, so I guess he has never officially been appointed but rather served as an interim arrangement.

There is clearly an inaccurateness in this list concerning Felix Mendelssohn, for we clearly know from his biography, that he quit the post in 1843 when he went to Berlin, taking it up again in 1845 (cf. the overlapping periods of Mendelssohn, Hiller and Gade).

My other source (Alain Pâris, Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l'interprétation au XXe siècle, Paris 1995) gives a somewhat different list:

Konzertmeister

Principal conductors

I think we need some more research (i.e. reliable sources) on this matter. --FordPrefect42 23:14, 13 August 2007 (UTC)