Joseph Keilberth
Joseph Keilberth was a German conductor active during the mid-twentieth century. His talents developed early: he pursued a general education and musical training in Karlsruhe, and at the age of seventeen joined the Karlsruhe State Theater as a répétiteur (vocal coach--a common starting place for European conductors). He remained with the theater and ten years later he was appointed general music director.
He remained there until 1940, when he was appointed chief conductor of the German Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. He became chief conductor of the Dresden State Opera in 1945. With a minimum of disruption for deNazification (official Allied certification that he was not implicated in Nazi crimes) he remained in that position until 1950.
In 1949 he became chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, which was in fact a reunion: After the War, the German population of the Sudetenland (the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia), which had been the excuse for Hitler's occupation of the country, were returned to Germany, and with them went the German Philharmonic of Prague, Keilberth's old orchestra, which settled in Bamberg. Causing unwary biographers some confusion, he also became the chief conductor of the Hamburg Philharmonic in 1950.
He frequently appeared as a guest conductor elsewhere in Germany, notably with the Berlin Philharmonic and, beginning in 1952, the Bayreuth Festival, and appeared regularly at the Salzburg and Lucerne festivals. In 1952 he also led his first performance in the Edinburgh Festival with the Hamburg State Opera.
He was a favored conductor for the Ring and other operas through 1956. In 1959 he succeeded Ferenc Fricay at the helm of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. There, history repeated itself. Keilberth died after collapsing during a performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, just as Felix Mottl--conductor at the same theater--had done in 1911.
Keilberth was very strong in Mozart and in the Wagnerian repertory, and in later German classics such as Pfitzner, Bruckner, Richard Strauss, Max Reger, and Paul Hindemith. His classic recordings included Hindemith's opera Cardillac.
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Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner
Joseph Keilberth, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Heinz Tietjen, Max Lorenz
Classical - Released by OperaPrima-Carillon on 23 Apr 2021
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Beethoven, Symphonie n°6, Pastorale (Miroir)
André Cluytens, Joseph Keilberth, Berliner Philharmoniker, Bamberger Symphoniker
Classical - Released by Miroir on 31 Jul 2020
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Brahms: Akedemische Festouvertüre, Op. 80 & Tragische Ouvertüre, Op. 81 (Mono Version)
Bamberger Symphoniker, Joseph Keilberth
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1960
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Beethoven: Symphonien Nos. 1 & 2 (Mono Version)
Joseph Keilberth, Bamberger Symphoniker
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1960
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The Telefunken Recordings 1953-1963
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 11 May 2018
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Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Strauss: Piano Concertos (Live)
Friedrich Gulda, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Joseph Keilberth, Hans Müller-Kray, Hans Rosbaud
Classical - Released by SWR Classic on 14 Feb 2020
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Weber : Der Freischütz (Intégrale)
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 17 Mar 1988
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Weber: Der Freischütz (Les indispensables de Diapason)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Joseph Keilberth
Classical - Released by Les Indispensables de Diapason on 31 Dec 2022
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Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8 "Inachevée" (Mono Version)
Hans von Benda, Joseph Keilberth
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 1956
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Beethoven & Brahms: Works for Piano (Live)
Wilhelm Backhaus, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Joseph Keilberth, Hans Müller-Kray
Classical - Released by SWR Classic on 9 Mar 2018
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Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Joseph Keilberth
Classical - Released by Orfeo on 1 Jan 2016
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Le Crépuscule des Dieux (Intégrale)
Full Operas - Released by Myto Historical on 30 Jun 2009
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Wagner : Das Rheingold (Live, Bayreuth, 1952) (Vorabend des bühnenfestspiels „der Ring des nibelungen")
Joseph Keilberth, Chor Und Orchester Der Bayreuther Festspiele
Classical - Released by Masterpieces Opera on 20 Jul 2018
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Strauss, R.: Arabella
Bayerisches Staatsorchester , Joseph Keilberth
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 Jan 2005
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Reger: Eine Ballett-Suite, Op. 130 & Variations and Fugues on Themes by Hiller and Mozart, Op. 100 & 132
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 10 Mar 2023
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Pfitzner: Von deutscher Seele / Schoeck: Lebendig begraben
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Joseph Keilberth, Fritz Rieger
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 Jan 2007
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Die Walküre (Intégrale)
Full Operas - Released by Myto Historical on 12 Oct 2009
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Hindemith: Cardillac; Mathis der Maler (Excerpts)
WDR Sinfonieorchester, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Joseph Keilberth, Leopold Ludwig
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 Jan 2007
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Wagner : Das Rheingold (Bayreuth, live, 12 08 1952)
Classical - Released by Myto Historical on 30 Jun 2009
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Beethoven, Symphonie No.5 (Miroir)
André Cluytens, Joseph Keilberth, Berliner Philharmoniker, Philarmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Classical - Released by Miroir on 3 Jul 2020
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Wagner: Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86b [Recorded 1960]
Opera - Released by Walhall Eternity Series on 1 Mar 2015
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