Eugen Jochum

Eugen Jochum is a Leader German, born with Babenhausen (Souabe) on November 1st 1902 and deceased with Munich the March 26th 1987

Biography

Eugen Jochum studies the Piano and the Orgue in Augsburg and the direction of orchestra with Munich. Its first employment is repeater of piano to the opera of Munich, then with Kiel.

It makes its beginnings of leader with the Philharmonic orchestra of Munich in 1927, and the same year, it is named director of the music in Kiel. Then it directs several orchestras, with Duisbourg, the Berlinoise radio, the Opera of Hamburg, where it works with type-setters like Paul Hindemith and Béla Bartók banished elsewhere by the Nazi S.

It forms later the Symphony orchestra of Bavarian Broadcasting which it directs from 1949 to 1960, then joined the Orchestre of Concertgebouw of Amsterdam in bond with Bernard Haitink. In 1975, it takes the direction of the Symphony orchestra of Bamberg of 1969 to 1973, while often leading to Bayreuth and Salzburg. It finishes its career of chief to the head of the Symphony orchestra of London in 1975, then invited with the head of the prestigious European phalanges, in particular in Dresden and Amsterdam. Its last recordings were carried out with the orchestras of Bamberg and the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam.

Repertory

Enthusiastic catholic, assumed traditionalist, Eugen Jochum are regarded as a specialist in the austro-Germanic repertory, mainly symphonic, 19th century. Its recordings of the symphonies and the sacred music of Anton Bruckner, of which it was one of the first champions faithful to the original versions, continue to make authority. The tops of the discography of Jochum are also side of its recordings of the symphonies of Joseph Haydn, orchestral works of Brahms (quasi-unsurpassable concertos for piano with Emil Guilels), of vocal works of Jean-Sebastien Bach and of the cordial and vigorous readings of the operas of Wagner.

His/her brother Georg Ludwig , less known, was also leader in Germany.

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