Charles Munch

Charles Munch

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For example, the score indicates the great Adagio should be 'Sehr feierlich', very solmen, but Munch makes it positively fiery. Bruckner adds that it should be 'sehr langsam' very slow but Munch chooses to move it along, clocking in at about eighteen minutes, knocking from three to five minutes off more traditional timings.

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Munch also belongs to the company of those conductors who don't believe the handwritten instruction in the score to cancel the mighty cymbal crash at the climax; the handscript is not Bruckner's. As the climax approaches Munch grins with excited anticipation; he's worked up quite a head of steam, and the camera makes sure we don't miss the moment when the lid comes flying right off the pot. The camera is naturally fascinated by the unusual Wagner tubas, but Munch does not seem interested in the traditional heavy-brown-gravy Bruckner-sonority; instead everything is bright and clear and forward-mmoving, and the climaxes are paroxysms.

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The Scherzo is particularly exhilarating at Munch's tempo, and the patrician conductor has no problem getting down into the rough rural mode. Munch's results are, according to taste, garish, rushed and unconvincing, or illuminating in the way that contrarian views often are. He does observe, or invent, the 'frequent changes of tempo not noted [in the score]' that Bruckner wrote of in a letter to the conductor Arthur Nikisch one of Munch's predecessors as BSO music director.

And, if you invoke another criterion, Munch's performance is authentic because this is how he learned it in his gallery years as an orchestral player, how he feels and hears the music, how he believes it should go. And the audience that night in Sanders Theatre didn't seem to mind at all. Please note that our editors may make some formatting changes or correct spelling or grammatical errors, and may also contact you if any clarifications are needed.

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The BSO has made recordings since , performs frequently over radio, gives up to concerts annually, and makes national and world tours. During its long history, France has gone through numerous types of government. The table provides a list of the major rulers of…. The city was originally a Celtic village, and under the Romans it became a garrison town called Argentoratum.

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It was captured in the…. Virginia, constituent state of the United States of America, one of the original 13 colonies.

It is bordered by Maryland to the northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, North Carolina and Tennessee to the south, Kentucky to the west, and West Virginia to the northwest. The state capital is…. Munch was born in Strasbourg , Alsace , German Empire.

Although his first ambition was to be a locomotive engineer, he studied violin at the Strasbourg Conservatoire.

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His father Ernst was a professor of organ at the Conservatoire and performed at the cathedral; he also directed an orchestra with his son Charles in the second violins. He was conscripted into the German army in World War I, serving as a sergeant gunner.

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Though most of his career was accomplished in France and in the United States, Munch considered that "as an Alsacian and as a musician, [he was] purely and profoundly German, but that [he was] a friend of many countries and first and foremost a musician and a conductor" [1]. In , he became professor of violin at the Strasbourg Conservatoire and assistant concertmaster of the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra under Joseph Guy Ropartz , who directed the conservatory.

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At the age of 41, Munch made his conducting debut in Paris on 1 November She was also an accomplished translator of Thomas Mann. Munch also studied conducting with Czech conductor Fritz Zweig , who had fled Berlin during his tenure at Berlin's Krolloper. He remained in France conducting the Conservatoire Orchestra during the German occupation , believing it best to maintain the morale of the French people.

He refused conducting engagements in Germany and also refused to perform contemporary German works. He protected members of his orchestra from the Gestapo and contributed from his income to the French Resistance.

He was its Music Director from to He led relaxed rehearsals which orchestra members appreciated after the authoritarian Serge Koussevitzky. He excelled in the modern French repertoire, especially Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel , and was considered to be an authoritative performer of Hector Berlioz. His thirteen-year tenure in Boston included 39 world premieres and 58 American first performances, and offered audiences contemporary works.

Fourteen of these premieres were works commissioned by the Boston Symphony and the Koussevitzky Music Foundation to celebrate the Orchestra's 75th Anniversary in

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