Axel Schmidt (oboist)

Axel Schmidt (born 19 August 1940) is a German cor anglais player and oboist.

Life

Born in Zwickau, Schmidt learned to play the oboe from Alfred Gleißberg, the solo oboist of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Peter Fischer at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

Von 1962 bis 1964 wirkte er beim Schweriner Philharmonie. 1964 wurde er dann Solo-Englischhornist beim MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra unter Herbert Kegel. Er war Interpret early music im Pro Arte Antiqua Lipsienis, Telemann-Ensemble and the Capella Fidicinia under the musicologist Hans Grüß. In 1970 he became a member of the Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler and the Leipziger Consort, who devoted themselves to New Music. In 1992 he founded the Trio PianOvo.

He teaches English horn and since 1976 oboe; in 1993 he became professor at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. There he acted as dean and Prorector. His students include Michael Goldammer, Walter Klingner, Sebastian Röthig and Gunter Sieberth. He is also a guest lecturer in the Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic, Finland and Great Britain.

Discography

Literature
  • Burkhard Glaetzner, Reiner Kontressowitz (ed.): Gruppe Neue Musik „Hanns Eisler“ 1970–1990. Spiel-Horizonte. Leipzig 1990, p. 50.
  • Annelie Schneider: Vereint Tradition und Moderne. Axel Schmidt, Oboe.[1] Resonanz. I/2002,p. 12 f.
gollark: To be honest, I kind of prefer the original set's egg colors, but the new ones look nice as hatchlings.
gollark: The existing xenowyrm names seem to be Greek-ish, so the new ones are probably similar.
gollark: So it's s[pqrst], I wonder what that is.
gollark: I'm looking at one of them but it hasn't cracked much.
gollark: The "current" eggs seem kind of weird; they weren't announced properly, randomly ended up in the biomes quite late, and now have weird cracks.

References
  1. Vereint Tradition und Moderne. Axel Schmidt, Oboe. on WorldCat
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.