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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Richard Wagner - The Valkyrie - Joseph Keilberth, Vol. 3
Opera - Released by Documents 2 on 25/03/2017
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor" (Live)
Wilhelm Backhaus, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Joseph Keilberth
Classical - Released by SWR Mediaservices GmbH on 1/12/2014
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5 Ouvertures célèbres (Mono Version)
Bamberger Symphoniker, Joseph Keilberth
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1961
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Beethoven, Symphonie n°1 (Miroir)
André Cluytens, Joseph Keilberth, Berliner Philharmoniker, Bamberger Symphoniker
Symphonic Music - Released by Miroir on 31/07/2020
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Master of Music, Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3, Coriolan Overture Op. 62
Glenn Gould, Joseph Keilberth, Bamberger Symphonike
Classical - Released by Oscardigital on 14/07/1994
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Richard Wagner - The Rhine Gold - Joseph Keilberth, Vol. 2
Opera - Released by Documents 2 on 25/03/2017
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Beethoven: Symphonie No. 6 "Pastorale" (Mono Version)
Joseph Keilberth, Bamberger Symphoniker
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1962
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Schubert: Symphonie No. 8 "Inachevée" (Mono Version)
Joseph Keilberth, Bamberger Symphoniker
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1956
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Brahms: Symphonie No. 1 (Mono Version)
Joseph Keilberth, Berliner Philharmoniker
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1955
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Mozart: Serenades
Thurston Dart, Joseph Keilberth
Classical - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 14/08/2020
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Gustav Mahler: Archives
Joseph Keilberth, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Bruno Walter, Staatskapelle Dresden
Classical - Released by Tahra on 21/02/2007
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Joseph Keilberth dirigiert Johann Strauss II (Mono Version)
Bamberger Symphoniker, Joseph Keilberth
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1960
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Weber: Der Freischütz (Mono Version)
Elisabeth Grümmer, Rudolf Schock, Berliner Philharmoniker, Joseph Keilberth
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1959
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Beethoven: Ouvertures (Mono Version)
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1962
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Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 (Mono Version)
Joseph Keilberth, Bamberger Symphoniker
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1956
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Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione & Métamorphoses symphoniques (Mono Version)
Joseph Keilberth, Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1957
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Joseph Keilberth dirigiert Johann Strauss II (Stereo Version)
Joseph Keilberth, Bamberger Symphoniker
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1960
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Schubert: Symphonie No. 8 "Inachevée" (Mono Version)
Joseph Keilberth, Bamberger Symphoniker
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1956
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Schubert: Symphonie No. 8 "Inachevée" (Mono Version)
Joseph Keilberth, Bamberger Symphoniker
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1956
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Brahms: Symphonie No. 4, Op. 98 (Mono Version)
Hamburger Philharmoniker, Joseph Keilberth
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1961
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Mozart: Symphony No. 29 & German Dances (Mono Version)
Bamberger Symphoniker, Joseph Keilberth
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1955
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