RICKENBACHER, KARL ANTON Karl Anton Rickenbacher, conductor
Swiss conductor KARL ANTON RICKENBACHER was born in Basel
in 1940 and studied with Herbert Ahlendorf at the Berlin conservatory and privately
with Herbert von Karajan and Pierre Boulez. He began his career as a répétiteur
and staff conductor at the Opernhaus Zürich (196769) and the Städtische Bühnen
Freiburg (196975), during which time his development was decisively influenced
by another great conductor, Otto Klemperer. Subsequently he shifted his activities
to the concert hall and was appointed general music director of the Westphalian
Symphony Orchestra in Recklinghausen (197685) and principal conductor of the
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow (197880). At the same time, he began
appearing regularly in Europe, North America, and Japan as a guest conductor.
His large discographychiefly in collaboration with the Bamberg, Bavarian Radio,
Berlin Radio, and Budapest Symphony orchestrasincludes a number of first recordings
of works by Beethoven, Wagner, Bruckner, Liszt, and Mahler, as well as Humperdinck,
Hindemith, Milhaud (awarded the Grand Prix du Disque), Zemlinsky, and Hartmann
(Cannes Classical Award). In 1999 his recording of Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
(with a text by Sir Peter Ustinov) won the German Echo Preis as Best Classical
Recording of the Year. He won an Echo Prize again the following year for his
recording of Messiaens oratorio La Transfiguration, and another in 2001
for a CD in the Unknown Richard Strauss series.
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