Hermann Scherchen (June 21, 1891 – June 12, 1966) was a German conductor. Born in Berlin, he was originally a violist and played among the violas of the Bluthner Orchestra of Berlin while still in his teens. He conducted in Riga from 1914 to 1916 and in Königsberg from 1928 to 1933, after which he left Germany in protest at the Nazi regime and worked in Switzerland.

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  • Hermann Scherchen (June 21, 1891 – June 12, 1966) was a German conductor. Born in Berlin, he was originally a violist and played among the violas of the Bluthner Orchestra of Berlin while still in his teens. He conducted in Riga from 1914 to 1916 and in Königsberg from 1928 to 1933, after which he left Germany in protest at the Nazi regime and worked in Switzerland. Along with the philanthropist Werner Reinhart, Scherchen played a leading role in shaping the musical life of Winterthur for many years, with numerous premiere performances, the emphasis being placed on contemporary music. Making his debut with Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, he was a champion of 20th century composers such as Richard Strauss, Webern, Berg and Varèse, and actively promoted the work of younger contemporary composers including Iannis Xenakis and Luigi Nono. He was the teacher of Karl Amadeus Hartmann, and contributed to the libretto of Hartmann's opera Simplicius Simplicissimus. The conductor Francis Travis was a pupil, then conducting assistant, for five years. He is probably best known for his orchestral arrangement (and recording) of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue. Another notable achievement is his 1958 recording of Beethoven's Eroica symphony for the Westminster label (subsequently reissued on compact disc), containing what is still (as of 2006) the fastest first movement ever recorded and the closest to Beethoven's own, problematic, metronome mark. His 1953 "Lehrbuch des Dirigierens" ("Treatise on Conducting" ISBN 3-7957-2780-4) is a standard textbook. His recorded repertoire was extremely wide, ranging from Vivaldi to Reinhold Glière. He died in Florence. He was survived by a number of children, from five wives and other women. One his sons was Wulff Scherchen. Wulff's six-year relationship with Benjamin Britten started when he was aged thirteen. John Bridcut describes the passionate exchanges of letters between the famous composer and the young boy in Britten's Children. His daughter, Myriam Scherchen, runs a record label Tahra which produces historic recordings on CD devoted to famous conductors, including Scherchen himself. Like Vasily Safonov and (in later life) Leopold Stokowski, Scherchen commonly avoided the use of a baton. His technique when in this mode sometimes caused problems for players; an unidentified BBC Symphony Orchestra bassoonist told the singer Ian Wallace that interpreting Scherchen's minuscule hand movements was like trying to milk a flying gnat. According to Fritz Spiegl, Scherchen worked largely through verbal instructions to his players and his scores were peppered with reminders of what he needed to say at each critical point in the music. However, Scherchen did not always dispense with the baton. The film of his rehearsal of his edition of Bach's 'Art of Fugue' with the CBC Toronto Chamber Orchestra shows him using a baton throughout, and very effectively.
  • Hermann Scherchen war ein deutscher Dirigent.
  • Hermann Scherchen fue un director y arreglista alemán . Haciendo su debut con Pierrot Lunaire de Arnold Schoenberg, fue un especialista en compositores clásicos del siglo XX tales como Richard Strauss, Anton Webern, Alban Berg y Edgar Varèse. Probablemente es más conocido por su arreglo orquestal de El arte de la fuga de Johann Sebastian Bach. Otro notable hito es su grabación de 1958 de la Sinfonía Heroica de Beethoven para el sello discográfico Westminster (posteriormente editado en CD), conteniendo lo que aún es el primer movimiento más rápido que se haya grabado. Se le ha redescubierto gracias en gran medida a sus hijos Wulff Scherchen que participó en Britten's Children (un documental de John Bridcut acerca de la inspiración de Benjamin Britten por los niños) y Myriam Scherchen que maneja Tahra (produciendo grabaciones históricas en CD incluyendo muchas de Scherchen).
  • Hermann Scherchen, - (Florence 12 juin 1966) est un chef d’orchestre allemand
  • Dopo aver compiuto regolari studi di violino, iniziò la carriera musicale come violista a Berlino nel 1907 mentre si formò sostanzialmente da autodidatta per quanto concerne la direzione d'orchestra. Nel 1911 l'incontro con Arnold Schönberg fu determinante per la sua attività futura. L'anno successivo diresse infatti il Pierrot lunaire e la Sinfonia da camera op.9. Nel 1914, allo scoppio della Prima Guerra Mondiale, era a capo dell'Orchestra Sinfonica di Riga. Dopo la guerra fondò a Berlino una società per la musica nuova, un quartetto (lo Scherchen-Quartett) e la rivista musicale "Melos". Negli anni successivi fu attivo come direttore a Lipsia, Francoforte sul Meno, Königsberg, Winterthur. Nel 1933 divenne inoltre direttore musicale delle trasmissioni radiofoniche tedesche e fondò la società musicale "Musica viva". Tra il 1945 e il 1950 è stato primo direttore dell'Orchestra della Radio Svizzera e successivamente si impegnò attivamente come esecutore in seno ai Corsi estivi per la nuova musica di Darmstadt. Nel 1954 fondò a Gravesano un laboratorio di musica elettronica. L'ultimo incarico importante risale al 1960 quando divenne primo direttore della Nordwestdeutschen Philharmonie di Herford. Scherchen è stato un grande interprete di autori come Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Paul Hindemith, Ernst Krenek, Richard Strauss, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Edgar Varèse, Bruno Maderna, Luigi Nono, Luigi Dallapiccola,Gian Francesco Malipiero, Paul Dessau, Boris Blacher, Hans Werner Henze, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis. Egli si prodigò nel corso della sua attività per far conoscere la musica della sua epoca, svolgendo un ruolo di infaticabile animatore di incontri dedicati al repertorio più attuale, fondando inoltre a sue spese una casa editrice (la Ars Viva Verlag) dedicata alle composizioni di autori sconosciuti. Nonostante ciò le sue conoscenze e il suo mestiere erano ben radicate nel solco della tradizione musicale tedesca. Autore di scritti estetici e didattici (tra cui si ricorda il Lehrbuch des Dirigierens, tradotto in Italia nel 1965 come Manuale del direttore d'orchestra), Scherchen si dedicò inoltre all'orchestrazione dell'Arte della fuga di Johann Sebastian Bach. Scrisse inoltre alcuni lavori di musica da camera tra cui un quartetto, un trio e la Sonata per pianoforte op. 5. Ha avuto rapporti con Elias Canetti che ne dipinge l'interessante e complessa personalità nel romanzo autobiografico "Il gioco degli occhi", capitolo "Il direttore d'orchestra" e successivi, narrando anche della passione di Scherchen per Anna Mahler, figlia del grande musicista Gustav e nota scultrice.
  • ヘルマン・シェルヘン（Hermann Scherchen, 1891年6月21日 - 1966年6月12日）は、ドイツ出身の指揮者、作曲家。現代音楽の推進者として知られた。 ベルリンの酒場の息子として生まれ、ヴィオラを学ぶ。家計が苦しく、1907年からブリュートナー管弦楽団、ベルリン・フィル、クロール・オペラなどでヴィオラ奏者として活動する一方、ナイトクラブなどでも演奏した。 1912年にはシェーンベルクとそのグループに出会い、11月5日、ミュンヘンでシェーンベルクの「月に憑かれたピエロ」を演奏し、指揮者としてデビューした。 リガ交響楽団の指揮者としてロシアに滞在中、第一次世界大戦が勃発し、捕虜として抑留されたが、音楽活動は継続、弦楽四重奏曲などの作曲を行った。 1918年にベルリンに戻り、以後、ドイツを中心としたヨーロッパ各地のオーケストラで指揮活動を行った。ヒンデミットやクルシェネク、オネゲルなど現代音楽の初演も数多い。一方で、音楽教育や、労働者合唱団の指導にも力が注がれ、さらに新音楽擁護のための雑誌を発刊するなど、精力的に活動した。 シェルヘン自身はユダヤ系ではなかったが、1933年にナチス政権が成立すると、これに反対してスイスに移住、第二次世界大戦が始まるまでは、ドイツを除く欧州諸国のほか、パレスチナや中国にまで足を伸ばした。1936年には、本番直前に指揮をキャンセルしたヴェーベルンの代役として、ベルクのヴァイオリン協奏曲をルイス・クラスナーとともにバルセロナで初演している。しかし、開戦後はほぼスイス国内のみに活動範囲が制約された。 戦争終結後は南米やトルコへ演奏旅行を行うなど活発な活動を再開、また、新しいレコード会社ウェストミンスターに参加、1950年以降ウィーンで数多くのレコーディングを行った。現代音楽のための活動も一貫して続け、ノーノやクセナキス、シュトックハウゼンなどの作品を初演したほか、1950年に出版社「Ars Viva」を設立、1954年にはグラヴェザーノに電子音楽スタジオを開設している。1964年に初めてアメリカを訪れ、フィラデルフィア管弦楽団を指揮して大成功をおさめた。 1966年6月7日、フィレンツェの歌劇場でマリピエロの「オルフェオ」を上演中に倒れ、5日後に市内のホテルでこの世を去った。 シェルヘンはいち早く前衛的な現代作品の価値を認め、晩年にいたるまでその演奏に力を尽くした。シェルヘンが行った多くの初演は、時に聴衆に大きなショックを与え、音楽界におけるスキャンダルになることもあった。しかし、彼は不屈の闘志を持って難解な作品の紹介を続け、20世紀の音楽史に大きな足跡を残した。彼の努力により、世に認められるようになった作曲家も少なくない。特に有名なのはデビュー当時のイヤニス・クセナキスを絶賛したことである。彼が指揮した「テレテクトール」の初演は死の数ヶ月前であった。 教育者としての業績も大きく、彼の弟子やアシスタントをつとめた指揮者として、カレル・アンチェル、イーゴリ・マルケヴィッチ、ブルーノ・マデルナ、エルネスト・ブール、フランシス・トラヴィスらを挙げることができる。 シェルヘンのレパートリーは極めて幅広く、バロック、古典派以前から、当時最先端の現代音楽までをその範囲としていたが、J.S. バッハ（とりわけ「フーガの技法」）、ベートーヴェン、マーラー、さらにシェーンベルクなどの新ウィーン楽派の作品を特に愛好していた。演奏スタイルは基本的には知的で明晰なものを指向していたが、一方（特に古典作品で）伝統に反旗を翻すような奇抜な解釈による演奏を行うこともあり、さらに実演では表現主義的な激しさを見せることもまた多かった。特にフランス国立放送管弦楽団とのマーラーの交響曲第5番やルガノ放送管弦楽団とのベートーヴェンの交響曲第8番はある意味録音史上に残されるべき怪演である。 「指揮法ハンドブック」、「音楽の本質」などの著書も残している。
  • Hermann Scherchen was een Duits dirigent en muziekpedagoog.
  • Hermann Scherchen a fost un dirijor german. S-a dedicat artei dirijorale de la vârsta de 18 ani, dobândind o faimă interanţională. În 1933 a părăsit Germania. Artist profund, autor a două tratate de artă dirijorală, Scherchen a militat pentru o artă interpretativă creatoare, pentru propagarea muzicii contemporane şi pentru o activitate ştiiţifică susţinută.
  • Герман ШЕРХЕН – немецкий дирижёр.
  • 赫尔曼·舍尔兴 是一位德国指挥家。
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  • Hermann Scherchen (June 21, 1891 – June 12, 1966) was a German conductor. Born in Berlin, he was originally a violist and played among the violas of the Bluthner Orchestra of Berlin while still in his teens. He conducted in Riga from 1914 to 1916 and in Königsberg from 1928 to 1933, after which he left Germany in protest at the Nazi regime and worked in Switzerland.
  • Hermann Scherchen war ein deutscher Dirigent.
  • Hermann Scherchen fue un director y arreglista alemán . Haciendo su debut con Pierrot Lunaire de Arnold Schoenberg, fue un especialista en compositores clásicos del siglo XX tales como Richard Strauss, Anton Webern, Alban Berg y Edgar Varèse. Probablemente es más conocido por su arreglo orquestal de El arte de la fuga de Johann Sebastian Bach.
  • Hermann Scherchen, - (Florence 12 juin 1966) est un chef d’orchestre allemand
  • Dopo aver compiuto regolari studi di violino, iniziò la carriera musicale come violista a Berlino nel 1907 mentre si formò sostanzialmente da autodidatta per quanto concerne la direzione d'orchestra. Nel 1911 l'incontro con Arnold Schönberg fu determinante per la sua attività futura. L'anno successivo diresse infatti il Pierrot lunaire e la Sinfonia da camera op.9. Nel 1914, allo scoppio della Prima Guerra Mondiale, era a capo dell'Orchestra Sinfonica di Riga.
  • Hermann Scherchen was een Duits dirigent en muziekpedagoog.
  • Hermann Scherchen a fost un dirijor german. S-a dedicat artei dirijorale de la vârsta de 18 ani, dobândind o faimă interanţională. În 1933 a părăsit Germania. Artist profund, autor a două tratate de artă dirijorală, Scherchen a militat pentru o artă interpretativă creatoare, pentru propagarea muzicii contemporane şi pentru o activitate ştiiţifică susţinută.
  • Герман ШЕРХЕН – немецкий дирижёр.
  • 赫尔曼·舍尔兴 是一位德国指挥家。
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