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Biography

Hans Stadlmair (born 3 May 1929 in Neuhofen an der Krems ) is an Austrian conductor (music)|conductor and composer. He conducted the Münchener Kammerorchester for almost four decades.

Professional career

Hans Stadlmair studied from 1946 to 1952 at the Vienna Academy of Music with Clemens Krauss and Alfred Uhl , and from 1952 to 1956 in Stuttgart with Johann Nepomuk David . From 1956 to 1995 he was artistic director of the Münchener Kammerorchester (MKO) and conducted several premieres. He conducted the orchestra in more than 4000 concerts, as well as on international tours and in collaboration with the Bayerischer Rundfunk . In 1971 Stadlmair conducted the premiere of Wilhelm Killmayer 's Fin al punto , composed for the 20th anniversary of the Münchener Kammerorchester. In 1981 he premiered Ulrich Stranz's Contrasubjekte , a Passacaglia on B-A-C-H for fourteen strings. In 1986 he collaborated with trumpeter Maurice André to record Joseph Haydn 's Trumpet Concerto (Haydn)|Trumpet Concerto and Michael Haydn 's Trumpet Concerto in D major . In 1995 he conducted the four flute concerto s of Franz Danzi with soloist Andrés Adorján. In 1995 and 1998 he recorded works of Leopold Mozart , with a "brightly refreshing and refined orchestral sound". His recording of Frank Martin (composer)|Frank Martin 's Polyptique for violin and strings (inspired by a series of small paintings of the Passion (Christianity)|Passion in Siena), Etudes for String Orchestra , and Sonata da Chiesa for viola and string orchestra, was favorably reviewed:

Conductor Hans Stadlmair brings out every lyric moment while keeping a taut rein on intricate rhythms.

Stadlmair was a guest conductor at the Salzburg Festival from 1976. He recorded all eleven symphonies of Joachim Raff with the Bamberger Symphoniker , along with Raff's four orchestral suites, overtures and smaller orchestral works. He conducted his own completion of the Adagio from Mahler's unfinished Symphony No. 10 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 10 .

In a celebration of Stadlmair's 80th birthday, the MKO, conducted by Alexander Liebreich , played this work along with Stadlmair's Adagietto Ecce homo , Magnus Lindberg 's violin concerto, Arnold Schoenberg 's Nocturno and Thomas Larcher 's ''L'homme au chapeau mou .

In 2011 Christian Thielemann conducted the Münchner Philharmoniker at the Gasteig in the premiere of Stadlmair's Miró , an Entrada for Orchestra, composed in 2006, inspired by sculptures of Joan Miró .

Selected works

Violin Concerto (1961), G. Schirmer Inc.|Schirmer

Toccata for strings and harpsichord (1966)

Trumpet Concerto with strings (1967)

Sinfonia serena for strings (1970)

Drei Fantasien (3 Fantasies) for viola solo (1973), Henry Litolff 's Verlag, Edition Peters

Orpheus-Legende for viola and fortepiano (1993)

Sonata for viola solo (1960); Breitkopf & Härtel

Sonata da Chiesa for viola and organ (1981)

Monodie in memoriam John Coltrane "Love Supreme" for saxophon solo (1991), Thiason

Saxofonia Introduktion und Passacaglia für Saxophonorchester und Schlagzeug, Thiason

Miró Entrada für Orchester (2006)

Awards

1989 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany|Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande

1994 Musikpreis der Landeshauptstadt München

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