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Christian Kluttig

November 26, 2023

Christian Kluttig (born 17 August 1943) is a German conductor, pianist and Hochschullehrer. From 1979 to 1990, he was chief conductor of the Orchester des Opernhauses Halle [de]. Appointed General Music Director in 1983, he worked as such at the theatres in Halle (Saale) and Theater Koblenz. The Handel interpreter rendered special services to the implementation of Historically informed performance in the Saale city, which made him one of the most important protagonists in this field in the GDR. He also devoted himself to Neue Musik, premiering Reiner Bredemeyer's opera Candide.

Life edit

Kluttig was born in Dresden as a son[1] of the cantor and subsequent Kirchenmusikdirektor Gottfried Kluttig (1913-2004). Kluttig had accordingly grown up with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.[2] In his hometown, he attended the Kreuzschule.[3] From 1961 to 1967, he studied conducting with general music director Rudolf Neuhaus and Horst Förster at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. [3] Furthermore, he took part in conducting courses given by Arvīds Jansons and Igor Markevitch in Weimar as well as Hans Swarowsky and Witold Rowicki in Vienna.[4]

After he had also undergone piano training in Dresden with Ingeborg Finke-Siegmund,[5] he received his first engagement as solo répétiteur with conducting duties at the Saxon State Opera in 1967.[6] There, he was active as an opera conductor for the first time with Le postillon de Lonjumeau by Adolphe Adam, Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber and Die Zauberflöte by Mozart. [4] In 1969, he also conducted his first Handel opera with Deidamia.[7] In Dresden, he learned a lot from guest conductors such as Rudolf Kempe and Igor Markevitch during orchestral work.[6]

With his Dresden qualifications, he moved in 1969 to Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz),[6] where he became First Kapellmeister at the city Theater in 1969. [8] In this capacity he studied among others the operas Simon Boccanegra by Verdi and The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky. [4] At the Opera House, he conducted the premiere of the Carl Riha production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with Kammersänger Konrad Rupf as Hans Sachs in 1974.[9] In a later interview (1985), he stated that his Wagner work so far had proved to be "a great happiness" for him.[10] At the same time, he regretted that he had hardly found the opportunity to interpret him.[10] In 1975, he rose to the position of Musical Director. [8] In 1979, he opened the Robert Schumann Days in the Stadthalle Chemnitz [de] with Schumann's oratorio Paradise and the Peri.[11] In addition, he devoted himself in Chemnitz to the symphonic work of Dmitri Shostakovich and Gustav Mahler.[6]

 
Theater des Friedens, Landestheater Halle (1986)

Finally, in 1979, artistic director Ulf Keyn brought him to the Landestheater Halle as musical director.[12] The new management team continued to include Martin Schneider (opera director), Karin Zauft (chief dramaturge), Peter Sodann (drama director) and Dieter Wardetzki (1st play director of the Sprechtheater).[12] He also became chief conductor of the Orchestra of the Halle Opera House [de][13] and took over all George Frideric Handel productions in Halle from 1979 to 1990.[5] Thus he directed Ezio (1979), Agrippina (1980), Poro (1981), Alessandro (1983), Floridante (1984), Il pastor fido and Terpsichore (1985), Partenope (1985), Rinaldo (1987), Oreste (1988) and Tamerlano (1990). [7] With 41 performances, the opera Rinaldo was the second most performed Handel production in Halle.[14] Kluttig received support regarding performance practice from the musicologist Bernd Baselt.[15] Kluttig had to cope with "an immense workload and encrusted structures" in connection with the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft [de], according to opera director Andreas Baumann. [6] In addition to Baumann, from 1981, he worked closely in Halle with Peter Konwitschny, from 1986.[6] Thus Kluttig played his part in opening up the festival to theatre directors.[16] Kluttig helped several singers socialised in Leipzig to get engagements in the Saale city, mainly on the recommendation of the singing teacher Helga Forner.[8] Among the new recruits were Annette Markert, Juliane Claus, Hendrikje Wangemann, Jürgen Trekel and Tomas Möwes. [7][6] He repeatedly invited Simone Kermes as a guest.[7] The first "in-house" countertenor Axel Köhler received special support. [7] According to Baumann, Kluttig stood for the "retention of Handel's dramaturgy" and had "new translations produced that were oriented towards the original text".[6] In this way, Kluttig provided essential suggestions for a "New Handel Style Halle".[6] Halle advanced to become an "East German centre of historical performance practice", as music journalist Michael Struck-Schloen put it.[17] For musicologist Karin Zauft, Kluttig was one of the pioneers of historical performance practice in the GDR[18] The opera ensemble made guest appearances both in the so-called Eastern Bloc (Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary) as well as in the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.[14] After performances in 1985[4] at the Prague Spring International Music Festival[19] and at the Dresden Music Festivals, guest appearances took him to the Kissinger Sommer even before the fall of the Wall.[3] (1989–1993, 1995, 2000/01)[20] und zu den Innsbruck Festival of Early Music.[6]

In Halle, according to Gilbert Stöck, he was also responsible for "two nationally acclaimed productions of contemporary and at the same time socialy critic operas":[21] In 1984, Der Preis by Karl Ottomar Treibmann was staged and in 1986 Candide by Reiner Bredemeyer was premiered.[22] On the occasion of the Hallische Musiktage, he repeatedly premiered works by foreign composers with the Handel Festival Orchestra, such as in 1980 Avet Terterian's[5] Symphony No. 5 and 1985 Primož Ramovš's Dialogue for Piano and Orchestra (soloist: Bettina Otto).[23] As Gilbert Stöck noted, Kluttig was also open to works by Gerd Domhardt.[21] Thus in 1982[24] whose Symphony II was premiered.[21] In 1990, he premiered Günter Neubert's orchestral music Das verschenkte Weinen. In 1990, at the Handel House, he was one of the co-founders of the Halle Music Council, as whose vice-chairman he served from then on.[25] The declining attendance figures at the Landestheater Halle in the course of the Peaceful Revolution probably ultimately led to the resignation of the Kluttig and Baumann team.[26]

After a guest appearance,[26] he was from 1991 to 1998[27] in succession to James Lockhart Chief Conductor of the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie and, as it were, Musical Director of the Theater Koblenz.[28] There, he cultivated both the operatic and the concert repertoire[6] Thus, on the one hand, he conducted the Handel operas Giulio Cesare (1989), Serse (1993), Alcina (1997) and Tamerlano (1999),[7] on the other hand, he performed all Mahler symphonies. [5] On the occasion of the 2000th anniversary of the city, he performed Mahler's Symphony No. 8 a festive concert in the Sporthalle Oberwerth.[29] With the orchestra, he was responsible for the world premiere of Róbert Wittinger's[5] Sinfonia no. 5. During Kluttig's tenure, the orchestra received the "Best Concert Programme of the 1995/96 Season" award from the Deutscher Musikverleger-Verband.[30]

Kluttig once named Claudio Abbado as his artistic role model.[31] For the music critic Wolf-Eberhard von Lewinski, he is "a sovereignly controlling and unpretentiously shaping conductor".[32] The musicologist Peter Gülke attested to Kluttig's combination of "modesty [...] with the authority of the highly competent".[3] He had "completed a huge opera repertoire" and was well known in the Historically informed performance (Baroque) as well as in "the classics and in Mahler scores."[3] Thus Kluttig's repertoire includes, in particular, orchestral works and oratorios by George Frideric Handel, as well as works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gustav Mahler.[33] He also championed Neue Musik,[33] for example, he brought the 1972 Piano Concerto by Manfred Weiss, a work commissioned by the Staatskapelle Dresden[34] (soloist: Gerhard Berge [de]), and in 1983 at the New Gewandhaus together with the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra[35] Christfried Schmidt's "Munch music" premiered. Guest conducting engagements took him to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and Dresden[4] as well as the Landestheater Linz (Serse, 1981) and the Theater Osnabrück (Alcina, 1997).[14] He also worked among others with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Dresdner Philharmonie and the Berliner Symphoniker as well as the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.[5] He presented several radio and record productions.[5]

In 1984[36] Rector Gustav Schmahl brought him to teach conducting at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. [37] He additionally took over the university symphony orchestra (HSO) there at the end of the 1980s[37] and led it in a teaching capacity in a first phase until he left for Koblenz in 1991. [38] Having already followed a call to Dresden as professor of orchestral conducting in 1998, he was additionally offered a professorship in Leipzig in 2000.[6][39] He also became the full-time director of the Leipzig HSO this time. [38] His tenure included the opening of the Great Hall and the engagement of renowned guest conductors such as Fabio Luisi, Kurt Masur and Herbert Blomstedt. [37] After an interim period with his former assistant Michael Köhler in 2003/04, he took over the conducting post again until his emeritus in 2007.[38] He also conducted several courses of the Dirigentenforum [de] at the Deutscher Musikrat (Koblenz 1993, 1996 and 1998, Hilchenbach 2001, Recklinghausen 2011).[40] Until 2015 he was still a lecturer for conducting in Dresden. [41] His students include among others Titus Engel,[42] Stefan Sanderling[43] and Ines Schreiner.[44]

But then Kluttig suffered an irreversible hearing disorder, which forced him to end his conducting career in 2002.[3] He has since been increasingly involved as a chamber music pianist and Liedbegleiter [de].[3] Kluttig is a founding member of the alumni association[45] and board member of the Friends Society of the Dresden Academy of Music.[46] He is married[3] and father of three sons, whose eldest Roland Kluttig (born 1968) is also a conductor.

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Recordings edit

Further reading edit

  • Andreas Baumann: Christian Kluttig zum 70. Geburtstag. In Jahrbuch der Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden (2013).
  • Walter Habel (ed.): Wer ist wer? The German Who’'s Who [de]. 46. Ausgabe 2007/08, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2007, ISBN 978-3-7950-2044-6, p. 688.
  • Alain Pâris: Klassische Musik im 20. Jahrhundert. Instrumentalisten, Sänger, Dirigenten, Orchester, Chöre. 2nd completely revised edition, dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-32501-1, p. 411.
  • Manfred Rätzer: Die halleschen Händel-Opern-Pioniere sollen im Gedächtnis bleiben. Prof. Christian Kluttig zum 70. Geburtstag. In Mitteilungen des Freundes- und Förderkreises des Händel-Hauses zu Halle e.V. 1/2014, pp. 33–35.
  • Axel Schiederjürgen (Red.): Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch. Solisten, Dirigenten, Komponisten, Hochschullehrer. 5. Ausgabe, K. G. Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3, p. 39.

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  2. ^ Christian Kluttig, Wolfgang Lange: Auftakt. Conversations with Conductors: Christian Kluttig in conversation with Wolfgang Lange. In: Theater der Zeit 10/1985, pp. 28–30, here p. 30.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Peter Gülke: With modesty and cordiality - Christian Kluttig turns 70. In Musik in Dresden, 3 September 2013.
  4. ^ a b c d e Christian Kluttig, Wolfgang Lange: Auftakt. Gespräche mit Dirigenten: Christian Kluttig im Gespräch mit Wolfgang Lange. In Theater der Zeit 10/1985, pp. 28–30, here p. 28.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Axel Schiederjürgen (Red.): Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch. Soloists, conductors, composers, university teachers. 5th edition, Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3, p. 239.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Andreas Baumann: Entschiedener Impulsgeber - Der in Dresden geborene Dirigent Christian Kluttig wird 70. In the Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, 17 August 2013, p. 9.
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  17. ^ Michael Struck-Schloen: Aller Glamour kommt von oben. Musical quality and scenic routine at the 47th Handel Festival in Halle. In Süddeutsche Zeitung, 1 July 1998, p. 14.
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External links edit

  • Literature by and about Christian Kluttig in the German National Library catalogue
  • Christian Kluttig discography at Discogs  
  • Christian Kluttig on Allmusic
  • Christian Kluttig (Conductor) on Bach Cantatas Website
  • Christian Kluttig in Autorenverzeichnis of the Theater der Zeit

November 26, 2023
christian, kluttig, born, august, 1943, german, conductor, pianist, hochschullehrer, from, 1979, 1990, chief, conductor, orchester, opernhauses, halle, appointed, general, music, director, 1983, worked, such, theatres, halle, saale, theater, koblenz, handel, i. Christian Kluttig born 17 August 1943 is a German conductor pianist and Hochschullehrer From 1979 to 1990 he was chief conductor of the Orchester des Opernhauses Halle de Appointed General Music Director in 1983 he worked as such at the theatres in Halle Saale and Theater Koblenz The Handel interpreter rendered special services to the implementation of Historically informed performance in the Saale city which made him one of the most important protagonists in this field in the GDR He also devoted himself to Neue Musik premiering Reiner Bredemeyer s opera Candide Contents 1 Life 2 Awards 3 Recordings 4 Further reading 5 References 6 External linksLife editKluttig was born in Dresden as a son 1 of the cantor and subsequent Kirchenmusikdirektor Gottfried Kluttig 1913 2004 Kluttig had accordingly grown up with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach 2 In his hometown he attended the Kreuzschule 3 From 1961 to 1967 he studied conducting with general music director Rudolf Neuhaus and Horst Forster at the Hochschule fur Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden 3 Furthermore he took part in conducting courses given by Arvids Jansons and Igor Markevitch in Weimar as well as Hans Swarowsky and Witold Rowicki in Vienna 4 After he had also undergone piano training in Dresden with Ingeborg Finke Siegmund 5 he received his first engagement as solo repetiteur with conducting duties at the Saxon State Opera in 1967 6 There he was active as an opera conductor for the first time with Le postillon de Lonjumeau by Adolphe Adam Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber and Die Zauberflote by Mozart 4 In 1969 he also conducted his first Handel opera with Deidamia 7 In Dresden he learned a lot from guest conductors such as Rudolf Kempe and Igor Markevitch during orchestral work 6 With his Dresden qualifications he moved in 1969 to Karl Marx Stadt now Chemnitz 6 where he became First Kapellmeister at the city Theater in 1969 8 In this capacity he studied among others the operas Simon Boccanegra by Verdi and The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky 4 At the Opera House he conducted the premiere of the Carl Riha production of Wagner s Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg with Kammersanger Konrad Rupf as Hans Sachs in 1974 9 In a later interview 1985 he stated that his Wagner work so far had proved to be a great happiness for him 10 At the same time he regretted that he had hardly found the opportunity to interpret him 10 In 1975 he rose to the position of Musical Director 8 In 1979 he opened the Robert Schumann Days in the Stadthalle Chemnitz de with Schumann s oratorio Paradise and the Peri 11 In addition he devoted himself in Chemnitz to the symphonic work of Dmitri Shostakovich and Gustav Mahler 6 nbsp Theater des Friedens Landestheater Halle 1986 Finally in 1979 artistic director Ulf Keyn brought him to the Landestheater Halle as musical director 12 The new management team continued to include Martin Schneider opera director Karin Zauft chief dramaturge Peter Sodann drama director and Dieter Wardetzki 1st play director of the Sprechtheater 12 He also became chief conductor of the Orchestra of the Halle Opera House de 13 and took over all George Frideric Handel productions in Halle from 1979 to 1990 5 Thus he directed Ezio 1979 Agrippina 1980 Poro 1981 Alessandro 1983 Floridante 1984 Il pastor fido and Terpsichore 1985 Partenope 1985 Rinaldo 1987 Oreste 1988 and Tamerlano 1990 7 With 41 performances the opera Rinaldo was the second most performed Handel production in Halle 14 Kluttig received support regarding performance practice from the musicologist Bernd Baselt 15 Kluttig had to cope with an immense workload and encrusted structures in connection with the Georg Friedrich Handel Gesellschaft de according to opera director Andreas Baumann 6 In addition to Baumann from 1981 he worked closely in Halle with Peter Konwitschny from 1986 6 Thus Kluttig played his part in opening up the festival to theatre directors 16 Kluttig helped several singers socialised in Leipzig to get engagements in the Saale city mainly on the recommendation of the singing teacher Helga Forner 8 Among the new recruits were Annette Markert Juliane Claus Hendrikje Wangemann Jurgen Trekel and Tomas Mowes 7 6 He repeatedly invited Simone Kermes as a guest 7 The first in house countertenor Axel Kohler received special support 7 According to Baumann Kluttig stood for the retention of Handel s dramaturgy and had new translations produced that were oriented towards the original text 6 In this way Kluttig provided essential suggestions for a New Handel Style Halle 6 Halle advanced to become an East German centre of historical performance practice as music journalist Michael Struck Schloen put it 17 For musicologist Karin Zauft Kluttig was one of the pioneers of historical performance practice in the GDR 18 The opera ensemble made guest appearances both in the so called Eastern Bloc Czechoslovakia Poland Hungary as well as in the Federal Republic of Germany Austria and Switzerland 14 After performances in 1985 4 at the Prague Spring International Music Festival 19 and at the Dresden Music Festivals guest appearances took him to the Kissinger Sommer even before the fall of the Wall 3 1989 1993 1995 2000 01 20 und zu den Innsbruck Festival of Early Music 6 In Halle according to Gilbert Stock he was also responsible for two nationally acclaimed productions of contemporary and at the same time socialy critic operas 21 In 1984 Der Preis by Karl Ottomar Treibmann was staged and in 1986 Candide by Reiner Bredemeyer was premiered 22 On the occasion of the Hallische Musiktage he repeatedly premiered works by foreign composers with the Handel Festival Orchestra such as in 1980 Avet Terterian s 5 Symphony No 5 and 1985 Primoz Ramovs s Dialogue for Piano and Orchestra soloist Bettina Otto 23 As Gilbert Stock noted Kluttig was also open to works by Gerd Domhardt 21 Thus in 1982 24 whose Symphony II was premiered 21 In 1990 he premiered Gunter Neubert s orchestral music Das verschenkte Weinen In 1990 at the Handel House he was one of the co founders of the Halle Music Council as whose vice chairman he served from then on 25 The declining attendance figures at the Landestheater Halle in the course of the Peaceful Revolution probably ultimately led to the resignation of the Kluttig and Baumann team 26 After a guest appearance 26 he was from 1991 to 1998 27 in succession to James Lockhart Chief Conductor of the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie and as it were Musical Director of the Theater Koblenz 28 There he cultivated both the operatic and the concert repertoire 6 Thus on the one hand he conducted the Handel operas Giulio Cesare 1989 Serse 1993 Alcina 1997 and Tamerlano 1999 7 on the other hand he performed all Mahler symphonies 5 On the occasion of the 2000th anniversary of the city he performed Mahler s Symphony No 8 a festive concert in the Sporthalle Oberwerth 29 With the orchestra he was responsible for the world premiere of Robert Wittinger s 5 Sinfonia no 5 During Kluttig s tenure the orchestra received the Best Concert Programme of the 1995 96 Season award from the Deutscher Musikverleger Verband 30 Kluttig once named Claudio Abbado as his artistic role model 31 For the music critic Wolf Eberhard von Lewinski he is a sovereignly controlling and unpretentiously shaping conductor 32 The musicologist Peter Gulke attested to Kluttig s combination of modesty with the authority of the highly competent 3 He had completed a huge opera repertoire and was well known in the Historically informed performance Baroque as well as in the classics and in Mahler scores 3 Thus Kluttig s repertoire includes in particular orchestral works and oratorios by George Frideric Handel as well as works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gustav Mahler 33 He also championed Neue Musik 33 for example he brought the 1972 Piano Concerto by Manfred Weiss a work commissioned by the Staatskapelle Dresden 34 soloist Gerhard Berge de and in 1983 at the New Gewandhaus together with the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra 35 Christfried Schmidt s Munch music premiered Guest conducting engagements took him to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and Dresden 4 as well as the Landestheater Linz Serse 1981 and the Theater Osnabruck Alcina 1997 14 He also worked among others with the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin the Dresdner Philharmonie and the Berliner Symphoniker as well as the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra 5 He presented several radio and record productions 5 In 1984 36 Rector Gustav Schmahl brought him to teach conducting at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig 37 He additionally took over the university symphony orchestra HSO there at the end of the 1980s 37 and led it in a teaching capacity in a first phase until he left for Koblenz in 1991 38 Having already followed a call to Dresden as professor of orchestral conducting in 1998 he was additionally offered a professorship in Leipzig in 2000 6 39 He also became the full time director of the Leipzig HSO this time 38 His tenure included the opening of the Great Hall and the engagement of renowned guest conductors such as Fabio Luisi Kurt Masur and Herbert Blomstedt 37 After an interim period with his former assistant Michael Kohler in 2003 04 he took over the conducting post again until his emeritus in 2007 38 He also conducted several courses of the Dirigentenforum de at the Deutscher Musikrat Koblenz 1993 1996 and 1998 Hilchenbach 2001 Recklinghausen 2011 40 Until 2015 he was still a lecturer for conducting in Dresden 41 His students include among others Titus Engel 42 Stefan Sanderling 43 and Ines Schreiner 44 But then Kluttig suffered an irreversible hearing disorder which forced him to end his conducting career in 2002 3 He has since been increasingly involved as a chamber music pianist and Liedbegleiter de 3 Kluttig is a founding member of the alumni association 45 and board member of the Friends Society of the Dresden Academy of Music 46 He is married 3 and father of three sons whose eldest Roland Kluttig born 1968 is also a conductor Awards edit1969 Support Prize at the Dresden Carl Maria von Weber Competition 47 1971 Mendelssohn Scholarship 1971 72 48 1981 Handel Prize 49 1983 Conferment of the title Generalmusikdirektor 50 1998 Honorary Member of the Richard Wagner Association Koblenz 51 Recordings editGeorg Friedrich Handel Ode for St Cecilia s Day ETERNA 1982 Berlin Classics 1997 Monika Frimmer Eberhard Buchner Chamber choir with members of the Halle State Theatre Choir the Halle Choral Soloists and the Collegium vocale Handel Festival Orchestra Halle Gerd Domhardt 2 Sinfonie NOVA 1988 Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Leipzig Christfried Schmidt Munch Musik WERGO 1994 Rundfunksinfonieorchester Leipzig Engelbert Humperdinck Die Heirat wider Willen de Deutsche Schallplatten 1996 Nils Giesecke Simone Kermes Peter Edelmann Lena Lootens Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie Robert Wittinger Sinfonia no 5 ANTES EDITION 1998 Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie Louis Spohr Konzertante Werke Deutsche Schallplatten 2003 Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie among others Further reading editAndreas Baumann Christian Kluttig zum 70 Geburtstag In Jahrbuch der Hochschule fur Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden 2013 Walter Habel ed Wer ist wer The German Who s Who de 46 Ausgabe 2007 08 Schmidt Romhild Lubeck 2007 ISBN 978 3 7950 2044 6 p 688 Alain Paris Klassische Musik im 20 Jahrhundert Instrumentalisten Sanger Dirigenten Orchester Chore 2nd completely revised edition dtv Verlagsgesellschaft Munich 1997 ISBN 3 423 32501 1 p 411 Manfred Ratzer Die halleschen Handel Opern Pioniere sollen im Gedachtnis bleiben Prof Christian Kluttig zum 70 Geburtstag In Mitteilungen des Freundes und Forderkreises des Handel Hauses zu Halle e V 1 2014 pp 33 35 Axel Schiederjurgen Red Kurschners Musiker Handbuch Solisten Dirigenten Komponisten Hochschullehrer 5 Ausgabe K G Saur Verlag Munich 2006 ISBN 3 598 24212 3 p 39 References edit Jens Fritzsche Eine musikalische Heimkehr On Sunday an unusual song recital can be experienced in Radeberg And an unusual gramophone In the Sachsische Zeitung 19 October 2017 p 16 Christian Kluttig Wolfgang Lange Auftakt Conversations with Conductors Christian Kluttig in conversation with Wolfgang Lange In Theater der Zeit 10 1985 pp 28 30 here p 30 a b c d e f g h Peter Gulke With modesty and cordiality Christian Kluttig turns 70 In Musik in Dresden 3 September 2013 a b c d e Christian Kluttig Wolfgang Lange Auftakt Gesprache mit Dirigenten Christian Kluttig im Gesprach mit Wolfgang Lange In Theater der Zeit 10 1985 pp 28 30 here p 28 a b c d e f g Axel Schiederjurgen Red Kurschners Musiker Handbuch Soloists conductors composers university teachers 5th edition Saur Munich 2006 ISBN 3 598 24212 3 p 239 a b c d e f g h i j k l Andreas Baumann Entschiedener Impulsgeber Der in Dresden geborene Dirigent Christian Kluttig wird 70 In the Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten 17 August 2013 p 9 a b c d e f Manfred Ratzer Die halleschen Handel Opern Pioniere sollen im Gedachtnis bleiben Prof Christian Kluttig on his 70th birthday In Mitteilungen des Freundes und Forderkreises des Handel Hauses zu Halle e V 1 2014 pp 33 35 here p 34 a b c Christian Kluttig Heike Bronn Conducting won t let me go Interview with Prof Christian Kluttig In MT Journal Zeitschrift der Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig No 25 2008 pp 44 46 here p 45 Meistersinger Premiere in Karl Marx Stadt In Neues Deutschland 14 October 1974 vol 29 issue 284 p 4 a b Christian Kluttig Wolfgang Lange Auftakt Conversations with Conductors Christian Kluttig in conversation with Wolfgang Lange In Theater der Zeit 10 1985 pp 28 30 here p 29 Gunther Wendekamm Festliches Konzert zum Beginn der Schumann Tage In Neues Deutschland 9 June 1979 vol 34 issue 134 p 4 a b Georg Antosch Stuck Anregungen von den Buhnen der Welt Efforts for sophisticated stage art In Neue Zeit 1 March 1980 Vol 36 Issue 52 p 4 Karin Zauft Handel and the Handel Festival in Halle Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle Saale 2001 ISBN 978 3 89812 085 2 p 57 a b c Manfred Ratzer Die halleschen Handel Opern Pioniere sollen im Erinnerung bleiben Prof Christian Kluttig on his 70th birthday In Mitteilungen des Freundes und Forderkreises des Handel Hauses zu Halle e V 1 2014 pp 33 35 here p 35 We congratulate Christian Kluttig In Magazin der Handel Festspiele 2014 p 25 Johannes Killyen Zur Geschichte der Handel Pflege in Halle Wiederentdeckung des historischen Klanges In Mitteldeutsche Zeitung 5 May 2001 Michael Struck Schloen Aller Glamour kommt von oben Musical quality and scenic routine at the 47th Handel Festival in Halle In Suddeutsche Zeitung 1 July 1998 p 14 Karin Zauft The Search for Authentic Sound Balancing Act between Subjectivity Perception of Time and Historical Knowledge In Boje Schmuhl ed Historical Performance Practice and its Perspectives XXXth Scientific Workshop Michaelstein 10 12 May 2002 Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte Vol 67 Wissner Augsburg 2007 ISBN 978 3 89639 545 0 pp 55 58 here p 56 Guesting with Flondante at Prague Spring Mit Flondante beim Prager Fruhling zu Gast In Neues Deutschland 25 May 1985 Jg 40 Ausgabe 121 p 6 Stadt Bad Kissingen ed 25 Kissinger Sommer Bad Kissingen o J p 75 a b c Gilbert Stock Neue Musik in den Bezirken Halle und Magdeburg zur Zeit der DDR Compositions Politics Institutions Schroder Leipzig 2008 ISBN 978 3 926196 50 7 p 269 Fn 496 Nina Noeske Die beste aller moglichen Welten Bredemeyer s Candide 1981 82 In Michael Berg Albrecht von Massow Nina Noeske Between Power and Freedom Neue Musik in the GDR Bohlau Verlag Weimar 2004 ISBN 3 412 10804 9 pp 141 156 p 142 Mantred Meier Experimentierlust und Phantasie im Einsatz fur neue Musik Encounter with Union friend Bettina Otto harpsichordist and pianist In Neue Zeit 6 April 1985 Vol 41 Issue 81 p 10 Wilhelm Buschkotter Hansjurgen Schaefer Handbuch der internationalen Konzertliteratur Instrumental and vocal music Manual of international concert literature 2nd revised and expanded edition de Gruyter Berlin among others 1996 ISBN 3 11 013905 7 p 247 Halle Music Council Founded In the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung 28 March 1990 p 2 a b thg In Zuerich getroffen Christian Kluttig Haendel Spezialist nach der Wende In Neue Zurcher Zeitung 2 April 1993 Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie lmr rp de retrieved 22 January 2021 2020 Chief Conductor from Halle Goes to Koblenz In the Berliner Zeitung 21 March 1991 vol 47 issue 68 p 13 Chronik musik institut koblenz de retrieved 22 January 2021 Bestes Konzertprogramm der Spielzeit Archived 2020 02 23 at the Wayback Machine dmv online com retrieved 22 January 2021 Christian Kluttig Heike Bronn Das Dirigieren lasst mich nicht los Interview mit Prof Christian Kluttig In MT Journal Zeitschrift der Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig No 25 2008 pp 44 46 here p 46 Wolf Eberhard von Lewinski Handel aus Halle Kissingen in summer prelude to the festival In the Suddeutsche Zeitung 7 July 1989 p 12 a b Comparison and Stimulation The 1988 GDR Music Days begin today Talk with Union friend Christian Kluttig In Neue Zeit 19 February 1988 vol 44 issue 42 p 4 Kulturelle Umschau In the Neue Zeit 4 October 1972 vol 28 issue 235 p 4 Steffen Lieberwirth ed Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk The history of the symphony orchestra Commissioned by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and written by Jorg Clemen Kamprad Altenburg 1999 ISBN 3 930550 09 1 p 187 Alain Paris Classical Music in the 20th Century Instrumentalists Singers Conductors Orchestras Choirs 2nd completely revised edition Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag Munich 1997 ISBN 3 423 32501 1 p 411 a b c Christian Kluttig Heike Bronn Conducting won t let me go Interview with Prof Christian Kluttig In MT Journal Zeitschrift der Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig No 25 2008 pp 44 46 here p 44 a b c Christian Fanghanel Heike Bronn Von der Orchesterschule zum Hochschul Sinfonieorchester In MT Journal Zeitschrift der Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig No 26 2009 Supplement pp 1 5 here p 5 Christian Kluttig at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig Artistic Directors dirigentenforum de retrieved 22January 2021 Christian Kluttig at the Hochschule fur Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden Archived from the original on 2016 04 22 Retrieved 2021 01 22 Meret Forster de Neuerungen mussen nicht radikal sein The conductor Titus Engel in conversation In Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik 1 2007 p 60 Livia Neugebauer Nach Hohenflug nun gluckliche Landung Encounter with the conductor Stefan Sanderling In Neue Zeit 11 August 1990 Vol 46 Issue 186 p 11 Internationaler Arbeitskreis Archiv Frau und Musik de ed Europaischer Dirigentinnenreader Schriftenreihe des Internationalen Arbeitskreises Frau und Musik Vol 4 Furore Verlag Kassel 2003 ISBN 3 927327 55 7 p 161 Alumni Verein Archived 2021 01 24 at the Wayback Machine hfmdd de retrieved 22 January 2021 Friends Society hfmdd de retrieved 22 January 2021 Kulturelle Umschau In Neue Zeit 8 July 1969 Jg 25 Ausgabe 157 p 4 Kulturelle Umschau In Neue Zeit 18 November 1971 Jg 27 Ausgabe 273 p 4 Christoph Rink Chronologie des Handelpreises In Mitteilungen des Freundes und Forderkreises des Handel Hauses zu Halle e V 1 2012 pp 20 25 here p 24 Ehrentitel an verdiente Musiker In Neue Zeit 6 October 1983 Jg 39 Ausgabe 236 p 2 LF Wagner Verband bedankt sich bei Kluttig und Stracke In the Rhein Zeitung 17 April 1998 External links editLiterature by and about Christian Kluttig in the German National Library catalogue Christian Kluttig discography at Discogs nbsp Christian Kluttig on Allmusic Christian Kluttig Conductor on Bach Cantatas Website Christian Kluttig in Autorenverzeichnis of the Theater der Zeit Portals nbsp Classical music nbsp Germany Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Christian Kluttig 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