Sergiu Celibidache

Sergiu Celibidache tʃelibiˈdake/}} was a Leader Apatride of Rumanian origin , born the June 28th 1912 in Roman (Romania) and dead the August 14th 1996 with the Neuville-on-Essonne (close to Fontainebleau) where it is buried in the tiny cemetery.

Biography

It makes its studies of music in Berlin, it becomes in 1945 chief of famous the Philharmonic orchestra of Berlin. With died of Furtwängler in 1954, the orchestra chooses Herbert von Karajan for chief with life. It leaves the German capital then. It starts a career of itinerant chief, being never fixed with an orchestra, with the Denmark, in Sweden, South America, Italy, France. Of 1979 until its death, he is the main leader of orchestra of the Philharmonic orchestra of Munich and, starting from 1983, he teaches the phenomenology of the music to the Curtis Institute with Philadelphia. He had discovered and studied in his youth the Phénoménologie of Husserl.

He belongs to the musicians who reflected much on the music; its professional work (the phenomenology of the music), which it transmitted only orally, is considerable. Its design of the technique of direction of orchestra is also of a very great range. One can announce on this subject that he almost always repeated and directed of memory, without partition.

He appreciated the German, Russian and French music particularly. He or did not direct operas very little. He on the other hand directed vocal music not put in scene (Passions of Bach, Requiem of Mozart etc). In the German music, it dedicated a worship with the symphonic music of Anton Bruckner. By using very slow tempos in the symphonies of Bruckner, Celibidache emphasized the depth and the range of the work of this type-setter. In the French music, he was an interpreter of first order of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Its preferred soloist was the pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, with whom he in particular interpreted the 5th concerto for piano of Beethoven.

He practically always refused to record, that it is in concert or studio, with the argument which the disc could not reproduce all the epiphenomenes which existed in the music and which only the concert on line could reveal. However, in the thirty last years of its career, a great number of its services were recorded by the radio stations on which the orchestras which it directed were dependant. At the end of the years 1990, his/her son Serge Ioan Celibidachi, realizer of cinema authorized Deutsche Grammophon to publish the recordings of Stuttgart (1971-1977) and EMI those of Munich (1979-1996), recorded by Bavarian Broadcasting. Published CD particularly emphasized interpretations of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner and Johannes Brahms. The benefit of these discs were completely transferred with the two humane foundations that Sergiu Celibidache had created.

Quotations

On the tempo : “My God, who I would be happy if Furtwängler were among us today and showed in the world what is a broad tempo! ”

On the direction of opera : “You know how much difficulties the chiefs must face when they work with simply the orchestra. Then imagine the sum of additional concern which would fall you above if it were about opera: arrogant singers, directors having little musical knowledge but never to court of ideas to make tremble the ground, corps de ballet gambadant all around the scene… Without speaking about the chorus-singers who do not follow you because one forced to them to look at bad side. What becomes the music in all that? ”

Of the type-setter Tchaikovsky: “As soon as it poses the hand on the orchestra, that sounds! ”

On Anton Bruckner and depth of its music : “For the normal man, time it is what comes after the beginning; the time of Bruckner, it is what comes after the end (...) I am happy of being able to read the lines still today that it left us. ”

Selective discography

Jean-Sebastien Bach: Mass in so minor . Barbara Bonney, Danila Donose, Maria Ruxandra, Cornelia Wulkopf, Peter Schreier, Yaron Windmüller--Chorus of the University Johannes Gutenberg of Mainz, Orchestrates Philarmonique of Munich-- recorded in public on November 18th, 1990 with Munich. Disc CD EMI 5 57844 2
Mozart: Requiem K626. Caroline Petrig, Christel Borchers, Peter Straka, Matthias Holle--Philarmonique chorus of Munich, Orchestrates Philarmonique of Munich--recorded in public February 15th and 17th 1995 in Munich. Disc CD EMI 5 57847 2.

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