Horst Förster

Conductor from Germany
1920, March 13th in Dresden, Germany - 1986, June 30th in Dresden, Germany

Horst Förster (1920-1986) was a German conductor, choral director, violinist and teacher, active in the GDR. Born in Dresden, he studied from 1936 to 1940 at the orchestral school of the Sächsische Staatskapelle, taking violin with Jan Dahmen, piano, theory and composition with Lothar Köhnke, conducting with Kurt Striegler and choral conducting with Alfred Stier. Until 1950 he led the second violins of the Dresdner Philharmonie, playing at times under Paul van Kempen, and from 1947 he also founded and directed a chamber orchestra in Dresden. In 1951 he took over the orchestra of the Landeskapelle Eisenach, becoming its Generalmusikdirektor in 1952, reportedly the youngest in the GDR at the time. From 1956 to 1964 he was chief conductor of the Staatliches Sinfonieorchester Halle and of the Robert-Franz-Singakademie, receiving the Handel Prize of the Halle district in 1960 and 1962 and the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1963. In September 1964 he succeeded Heinz Bongartz as chief conductor of the Dresdner Philharmonie, a post he held until 1966, before Kurt Masur. He also taught at the Deutsche Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, as lecturer from 1957 and professor from 1961, leading a conducting class. He guest-conducted in Berlin, Riga, Leningrad, Warsaw and Chile. He died in Dresden in 1986. Source: Rondo DB

Usual Name Horst Förster
On Wikipedia Horst_Förster_(Dirigent,_1920)
Ensembles Dresdner Philharmonie from 1964 to 1967
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