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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Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suites Nos. 1 & 2 (Mono Version)
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Joseph Keilberth
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1960
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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41 (Stereo Version)
Bamberger Symphoniker, Joseph Keilberth
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1960
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Joseph Keilberth: Rare Recordings (1943-1957)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Bamberger Symphoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Joseph Keilberth
Classical - Released by Andromeda on 11/02/2008
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La Clemenza Di Tito
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Joseph Keilberth / Nicolai Gedda, Joseph Keilberth, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Classical - Released by Zyx - Classic on 26/11/2002
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Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Joseph Keilberth, Bamberger Symphoniker
Miscellaneous - Released by Infinity on 30/10/2020
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Richard Wagner - Siegfried - Joseph Keilberth, Vol. 3
Opera - Released by Documents 2 on 25/03/2017
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Richard Wagner - Siegfried - Joseph Keilberth, Vol. 1
Opera - Released by Documents 2 on 25/03/2017
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Schubert: Symphony No. 6
Joseph Keilberth, Bamberger Symphoniker
Symphonic Music - Released by Infinity on 21/03/2021
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Richard Wagner - The Twilight of the Gods - Joseph Keilberth, Vol. 2
Opera - Released by Documents 2 on 25/03/2017
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The Art of Joseph Keilberth
Joseph Keilberth, Wilhelm Backhaus, Südfunk-Sinfonieorchester
Classical - Released by Tahra on 25/02/2013
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Richard Wagner - The Twilight of the Gods - Joseph Keilberth, Vol. 1
Opera - Released by Documents 2 on 25/03/2017
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Richard Wagner - The Valkyrie - Joseph Keilberth, Vol. 2
Opera - Released by Documents 2 on 25/03/2017
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Top classical music, Vol. 1
Joseph Keilberth, Paul Paray, Léopold Stokowski, Bamberger Symphoniker, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, The All-American Orchestra
Classical - Released by Infinity on 26/12/2022
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Richard Wagner - The Twilight of the Gods - Joseph Keilberth, Vol. 4
Opera - Released by Documents 2 on 25/03/2017
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Richard Wagner - The Twilight of the Gods - Joseph Keilberth, Vol. 3
Opera - Released by Documents 2 on 25/03/2017
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Joseph Keilberth conducts Richard Strauss Orchestral Works
Cologne Radio Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Joseph Keilberth, Peter Schwarzl, Paul Piesinger
Classical - Released by Andromeda on 11/12/2020
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Great Tenors sing Wagner · Das Rheingold
Otto Briesemeister, Rudolf Lustig, Erich Zimmermann, Joseph Keilberth, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Heinz Tietjen, Max Lorenz
Opera - Released by G.O.P. on 16/10/2020
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The Great Conductors: Joseph Keilberth, Vol. 2
Prague German Philharmonic Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth
Classical - Released by Jube Classic on 5/02/2013
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The Great Conductors: Joseph Keilberth
Prague German Philharmonic Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth
Classical - Released by Jube Classic on 29/01/2013
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The Art of Joseph Keilberth
Joseph Keilberth, Wilhelm Backhaus and Südfunk-Sinfonieorchester
Classical - Released by Tahra on 25/02/2013
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