Michael Gielen 米切尔·吉伦

简介Biography

迈克尔•吉伦（Michael Gielen，1927-2019），奥地利指挥家和作曲家，生于前东德的德累斯顿，以指挥现代音乐为所长。曾任法兰克福歌剧院总监及音乐总监长达十几年之久。之前他还是皇家瑞典歌剧院和比利时国家交响乐团的音乐总监，以及荷兰歌剧院的首席指挥。他自1986-1999年期间担任南德广播交响乐团期间大力推广先锋音乐。

父亲是歌剧导演，年幼时因纳粹迫害，随家人迁居南美阿根廷，在布宜诺斯艾利斯拜罗伊希特为师。1949年因举行勋伯格钢琴作品全集独奏会而引起乐坛瞩目，1950年返回欧洲，1954年指挥奥乃格《火刑堆上的贞德》在维也纳首次登台。此后从1960年起担任斯德哥尔摩歌剧院首席6年，1977年秋始，接替多纳尼任法兰克福歌剧院音乐总监，现任西南德广播交响乐团音乐总监。吉伦以指挥现代音乐为所长，他指挥奥地利广播交响乐团与合唱团录制的勋伯格的《摩西与亚伦》，获多种唱片大奖，是现代音乐中的著名录音。

恩斯特•冯•西门子音乐基金会2010年音乐大奖的获奖者，奖金为20万欧元。

摘自：https://www.sin80.com/artist/michael-gielen

Michael Gielen (born 20 July 1927) is an Austrian conductor and composer.Gielen was born in Dresden, Germany, to Rose (née Steuermann) and Josef Gielen; his father, an opera director. Through his mother, Rose, he is the nephew of Eduard Steuermann and Salka Viertel. His father was Christian and his mother was Jewish. He began his career as a pianist in Buenos Aires, where he studied with Erwin Leuchter and gave an early performance of Arnold Schoenberg's complete piano works in 1949 (the South-American première). While serving as conductor and répétiteur at the Wiener Staatsoper (1950–60), he conducted productions of contemporary music outside the opera house. His next operatic appointment was as conductor of Royal Swedish Opera from 1960-65, followed by posts at the Netherlands Opera and theOpern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt from 1977. He was principal conductor of the Belgian National Orchestra (1969–73), the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (1980–86) and of the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra (1986–99), which he has been closely associated with since.[ He has demonstrated a mastery of the most complex contemporary scores, and he has given many premières, including Helmut Lachenmann's Fassade and Klangschatten – mein Saitenspiel, György Ligeti's Requièm, Karlheinz Stockhausen's Carré and Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten. In 1973 he recorded Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron, used as a soundtrack for the film Moses und Aron.[In 1979 he revived Schreker's opera Die Gezeichneten at the Oper Frankfurt, where it had been premiered in 1918. During his time in Frankfurt, later called theGielen Era, he collaborated with stage directors such as Hans Neuenfels for Verdi's Aida and Ruth Berghaus for Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. As a composer, Gielen has elaborated on the tradition of the Second Viennese School and his small oeuvre includes settings of poems by Hans Arp, Paul Claudel,Stefan George, and Pablo Neruda.[citation needed] In October 2014, Gielen announced his retirement from conducting for health reasons, particularly seriously deteriorated eyesight.