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Hans Zender
12+ albums
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Hans (Johannes Wolfgang) Zender (22 November 1936 – 22 October 2019) was a German conductor and composer. He was chief conductor of opera houses, and his compositions, many of them vocal music, have been performed at international festivals. As a conductor, he worked at opera houses Theater Freiburg, Theater Bonn, Opernhaus Kiel and Hamburg State Opera, and led the radio orchestra Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern. He taught at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. His opera Stephen Climax premiered in 1986 at the Oper Frankfurt, his third opera Chief Joseph premiered in 2005 at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Born in Wiesbaden, Zender attended the Maifestspiele already at age 13, listening to concerts conducted by Carl Schuricht, Karl Böhm and Günter Wand, among others. He took piano lessons and learned to play the organ. From 1949, he annually went to the Darmstädter Ferienkurse where he got to know trends in new music by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Olivier Messiaen and John Cage.He studied piano, conducting, and composition (the latter with Wolfgang Fortner) at the Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt and at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, from 1956 to 1959.He was trained as a concert pianist by Edith Picht-Axenfeld. From 1959 to 1963 he was Kapellmeister of the Theater Freiburg, then principal conductor at the Theater Bonn from 1964 to 1968.[2] In 1964–65 he attended the Second Cologne Courses for New Music at the Rheinische Musikhochschule, under the artistic di
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Schumann - Phantasie: II. Triumphbogen (after Schumann: Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17: II. Massig. Durchaus energisch)
4322Music To Hear
2543Cabaret Voltaire
1874Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
1595Schuberts "Winterreise"
1586A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, Op. 21
1537Shir Hashirim
1518Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 7, Auf dem Flusse
889Preludes, Book 1 (arr. H. Zender): No. 2. Voiles
8410Preludes, Book 1 (arr. H. Zender): No. 11. La danse de Puck
74albums
Zender: Schumann-Phantasie / Bardo
Scelsi: Quattro pezzi per orchestra - Pranam - Zender: 5 Haiku for Flute and Strings - Zeitstrome - Kantate
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Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune - Funf Preludes - Printemps - Danse - Nocturnes
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Mendelssohn: Ein Sommernachtstraum - Overtüren
Zender: Schuberts Winterreise
Hans Zender - Music To Hear
Hans Zender - Cabaret Voltaire
Shir Hashirim
Hans Zender - Schuberts "Winterreise"
Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 7, Auf dem Flusse
Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911 (Arr. H. Zender)
Donaueschinger Musiktage 2006, Vol. 2