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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Die Zauberflöte
Opera - Released by Preiser Records on 18/09/2006
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Dvořák: Concerto pour violoncelle, Op. 104 (Stereo Version)
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Joseph Keilberth, Ludwig Hoelscher
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1960
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Kaminski, Schwarz-Schilling, & Höller: Orchestra Works
Joseph Keilberth, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Agnes Giebel, Anton Heiller
Classical - Released by Gramola Records on 1/04/2022
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Brahms, Schumann & R. Strauss
Wiener Symphoniker, Joseph Keilberth, Friedrich Gulda
Classical - Released by Orfeo on 1/01/2007
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Schubert, Berg & Bruckner: Orchestral Works (Live)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Christian Ferras, Joseph Keilberth
Classical - Released by Orfeo on 11/08/2011
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Richard Wagner - The Valkyrie - Joseph Keilberth, Vol. 1
Opera - Released by Documents 2 on 25/03/2017
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Weber: Der Freischütz (Stereo Version)
Elisabeth Grümmer, Rudolf Schock, Berliner Philharmoniker, Joseph Keilberth
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1960
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Wagner : Siegfried (Bayreuth, August 1952)
Classical - Released by Myto Historical on 5/11/2001
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Richard Wagner - The Rhine Gold - Joseph Keilberth, Vol. 1
Opera - Released by Documents 2 on 25/03/2017
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R. Strauss: Salomé (Mono Version)
Christel Goltz, Josef Herrmann, Staatskapelle Dresden, Joseph Keilberth
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1956
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Beethoven: Symphonie No. 3 "Héroïque" (Stereo Version)
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Joseph Keilberth
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1960
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Symphony, No. 38 "Prague Symphony"
Classical - Released by Nar Classical on 10/07/2023
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Dvořák: Cello Concerto & Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
Edouard Lindenberg, Joseph Keilberth, Ludwig Hoelscher, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Classical - Released by Warner Classics International on 1/01/2003
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Messa da Requiem
Symphonies - Released by Preiser Records on 29/09/2006
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Richard Wagner - Siegfried - Joseph Keilberth, Vol. 2
Opera - Released by Documents 2 on 25/03/2017
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Richard Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer (Bayreuth 1956)
Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Heinz Tietjen, Max Lorenz, Joseph Keilberth, Arnold Van Mill, Jean Cox
Opera - Released by OperaPrima on 1/01/1956
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The Symphony Lounge, Vol. 10: Mozart Symphonies Nos. 40-41 & Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Joseph Keilberth, Bamberger Symphoniker
Classical - Released by Jube Classic on 21/06/2019
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Beethoven: Orchestral Works
Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Joseph Keilberth
Classical - Released by Orfeo on 1/01/2016
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 (Live)
Wilhelm Backhaus, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch, Joseph Keilberth
Chamber Music - Released by Stradivarius on 20/09/1988
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