BernardHaitink (1929- ...) If anyone wants to choose the contemporary Dutch conductor "Emperor", then this laurel is probably Heidink. This all-powerful figure is a famous conductor with the highest reputation and greatest achievements in the contemporary Dutch music industry. In terms of worldwide influence, he is another Dutch international conductor with extensive authority after Mengelberg and Banim. In today's world, he is a new generation of world masters who are equally famous with Pleven, abbado and Seiji Ozawa. Together with them, he became the backbone of the world command art in the middle and late 20th century.

Chinese name: Haidingke

Mbth: BernardHaitink

Nationality: Netherlands

Place of birth: Amsterdam

Date of birth:1March 4, 929

Occupation: conducting

Graduate school: Amsterdam Conservatory of Music

Main achievements: 1969 was knighted by Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard.

1977 was awarded the honorary title of British Empire.

199 1 won the Erasmus Prize in the Netherlands.

Masterpieces: The Ring of Nibelungen and Falstaff.

Idols: Fult Wengler, Cripps, Banim.

Character experience

Although the Netherlands is a small country, its music culture is very developed. Haidingke can almost be regarded as a symbol of the Netherlands in the music industry.

1929 On March 4th, Haidingke was born in a wealthy family in Amsterdam.

1955 was hired as the deputy conductor of the Netherlands United Broadcasting Orchestra.

1956 was hired as the chief conductor of the Hilversum Radio Orchestra in the Netherlands. From then on, Haidingke had a smooth sailing and began his brilliant command career.

196 1 year, Haidingke became the youngest chief conductor of ACO in Amsterdam Concert Hall.

1964 became the music director and chief conductor of ACO, which meant that he sat at the top of the world-class orchestra. At this time, he was only 35 years old.

During his tenure at ACO, Haidingke was also the chief commander of London Philharmonic Orchestra 1967 to 1979.

1977, the music director of the Greenbourne Opera House in England was taken over by Haidingke. 1982, Haidingke performed in metropolitan opera for the first time.

The music season of 1985-1986 is the busiest year for Haidingke. He has conducted performances of Boston Symphony Orchestra, Zurich Concert Hall Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic and Bavarian Radio Orchestra, and conducted Richard Strauss's opera arabella at the Royal Opera House in London.

/kloc-in the summer of 0/992, he led ROH to Japan to perform Mozart's The Wedding of Don Juan and Figaro. During the happy season of 1992- 1993, his plays in ROH included A Woman Without a Shadow by Richard Strauss, The Cunning Fox by Janacek and Mozart.

The important performances of Haidingke 1993-1994 music season include Wagner's Famous Singer of Nuremberg and Janacek's Katyakbanova of ROH; Conducted BSO to play Schubert's Eighth Symphony in Boston.

Juvenile period

Baynard Haidingke was born in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, 1929. He/kloc-began to learn violin at the age of 0/0. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to Amsterdam Conservatory of Music. At school, he likes to take violin as his major subject. However, Haidingke, who deeply loves the art of conducting, took all the conducting classes at other times. After graduating from Amsterdam Conservatory of Music, Haidingke joined the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra as a violinist. At this time, Haidingke seized every opportunity to enrich his orchestra's practical knowledge and ability, and at the same time further studied and studied the conducting methods, which laid a good foundation for his exquisite conducting art in the future.

Act as a conductor

Haidingke officially turned to command career in the mid-1950s. From 1954 to 1955, Haidingke participated in two summer seminars on international command law organized by the Netherlands United Broadcasting Association. Due to his outstanding academic achievements, he was hired by 1955 as the deputy conductor of the Netherlands Joint Radio Symphony Orchestra. 1956, Haidingke temporarily replaced Giulini, the conductor who was unable to play due to illness, and conducted the orchestra of Amsterdam Concert Hall to successfully perform Cherubini's Requiem. This extraordinary genius immediately won him wide acclaim and a resounding reputation. Since then, this young conductor, who is only 27 years old, has attracted great attention. In the same year, he obtained the position of chief conductor of Sylvie Russum Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Brilliant cause

196 1 year, 32-year-old Haidingke took over the position of chief conductor of Amsterdam Concert Hall Orchestra from the great conductor Banim and became the fourth music director and permanent conductor of the most famous symphony orchestra in the Netherlands. From 1967 to 1979, he also served as the chief conductor and artistic consultant of London Philharmonic Orchestra in 12. From 65438 to 0988, Haidingke left the orchestra of Amsterdam Concert Hall for 27 years and went to the famous Royal Covent Garden Opera House as music director and permanent conductor. At the same time, he also served as a guest conductor in symphony orchestras and opera houses in Europe, America and around the world. These include many world-class performing groups such as Greenberg Opera House, Berlin Philharmonic, vienna state opera, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Cleveland Symphony Orchestra.

Honor won

For more than 40 years, Haidingke has been conscientious and respected, enjoying high prestige in the world music industry. In recognition of his outstanding contribution to music culture, many governments awarded him many medals and titles, such as 1969 was knighted by Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, 1977 was knighted by the British Empire, and 1988 was awarded an honorary doctor of music by Oxford University.

Famous songs

Haidingke's career as a conductor began with conducting symphonies. When he was the conductor of several important symphony orchestras in his early years, he made great achievements in this respect. When he entered his later years, his interest in conducting gradually tended to opera. During his time as the music director and permanent conductor of the Royal Covent Garden Opera House, he conducted many enduring famous operas. In addition, he recorded Verdi's Falstaff with Greenberg Opera House in June, 1983, and Wagner's The Ring of Nibelungen with Munich Opera House in February of the same year, 65438+. As for the opera works staged and recorded by other opera houses, there are countless more.

Personality assessment

Haidingke is a prestigious conductor in the world today, and he is also an artist with fighting spirit and perseverance. He himself once said that he experienced many difficulties and bitterness in art, but every difficulty was overcome by his tenacious spirit and amazing ability, and this determination to overcome difficulties made him more confident to master the baton in his hand. Anyone who is familiar with Haidingke's character knows that this outstanding conductor is a man full of confidence in himself. He said that he believed in his talent and ability, not only in his hands, but also in his whole heart. He once said: "Music is in my heart and I am eager to show it. It is this belief that has made me step by step to the peak. "

Haidingke is an "all-around" conductor. He is also good at dealing with operas and symphonies, but he started with symphonies. According to his own words, it is because he owned a famous symphony orchestra from the beginning, which should be his luckiest thing. Therefore, he mastered orchestral music at an amazing speed. By conducting the symphony, he has exercised his solid professional and technical basic skills, which are all beneficial preparations and preparations.

Haidingke, like Monte, Olmandy, Martinon and Ma Zeer, is also a violinist-born conductor, so he also attaches great importance to the inner delicate style of strings, which is very necessary to master the sense of balance between bands and the naturalness of the flow of musical lines. Haidingke's command often gives people a sense of stability and generosity, and his ability to control speed is very accurate. When conducting music, he often shows a strong sense of joy and excitement. He is a conductor with artistic creativity, and his imagination of music is very rich. More importantly, the music he interprets is the music closest to his heart. This rare realm is the artistic goal he pursued all his life.

Haidingke is an extremely humble artist. He always overcomes his weaknesses in a positive way. He once joked that he had a "radar" to find problems. This "radar" can remind him to make fewer mistakes at any time. In fact, this "radar" is a humble vigilance and a lofty spirit of continuous progress. It is this vigilance and lofty spirit that has enabled him to continuously achieve artistic achievements.

Haidingke's humility is also manifested in his respect and worship for the older generation of command masters. In his mind, mengle Berg, Fult Wengler, Cripps, Banim and karajan are all his most admired idols, and the most influential and unforgettable person is his predecessor, the Dutch conductor Banim, who thinks Banim is the most humble conductor, his accomplishment, his skills and his beliefs. As a successor, Haidingke was deeply influenced. "Banim is a unique conductor, and he occupies a very important position in my memory," Haidingke said in an interview with a Dutch reporter before he was relieved of his permanent command of the Amsterdam Concert Hall Orchestra. Indeed, Banim's persuasion attitude and meticulous commanding personality to the band members were silently absorbed by Haidingke, and gradually became the main aspect of Haidingke's own style characteristics.

Like some great artists in the past, Haidingke is also an artist with lofty moral character and tenacious personality. In his mind, music art, which symbolizes the best spirit of mankind, has always occupied a dominant position. He loves life and music so much, and he is determined to bring happiness to mankind with his own music art. As an upright and kind artist, he is deeply worried about the neglect of cultural undertakings by the Dutch and British governments at that time, and rebukes these people for their short-sightedness and stupid behavior, because he deeply knows that as a modern civilized society, music, the most emotional art form, cannot be absent. For example, due to economic pressure, the Dutch government wants to change the Amsterdam Concert Hall orchestra with more than 100 people into an indoor orchestra with only 20 or 30 people. This extremely wrong move was immediately opposed by famous musicians all over the world. Haidingke, who was the permanent conductor of the orchestra at that time, was even more indignant. He was furious and resigned angrily, strongly attacking those who made the wrong decision. Under the pressure of his high prestige, these people had to change their decisions. In this way, with his firm attitude and strong sense of responsibility, Haidingke finally saved the existence of this excellent orchestra with a century-old tradition.

Haidingke is an extremely diligent conductor. During his decades of conducting career, he often ran around the music stage all over the world and never felt bored and tired. His repertoire is very extensive, ranging from classical works to modernist works, involving a large number of composers of different nationalities and styles, but relatively speaking, he has a more prominent interpretation of the works of Mahler, brukner, Verdi, Wagner, Brahms, Stravinsky and Shostakovich.

Haidingke is also a famous record producer. For decades, he has conducted famous orchestras and opera houses such as Amsterdam Concert Hall Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Covent Garden Opera House, and recorded many records for major record companies in the world. In concerto records, he often cooperated successfully with world-class masters such as Rubinstein, Askin Naz and Paalmann. Haidingke is an international conductor full of honor. He devoted himself to the Dutch music industry's position in the world, and also made immortal contributions to promoting the development of the world music industry. In recognition of his achievements, Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard knighted him in 1969, which can be said to be the highest honor he won when he was engaged in music and art activities. In fact, the highest honor is probably not for this. He has been playing all over the world for decades.

Haidingke regards every live performance as an adventure. In 2009, without any overture, he and Chicago Symphony Orchestra directly played three symphonies-Mahler 13 Symphony No.6, brukner 14 Symphony No.7 and Haydn 10 1 Symphony No. Haidingke himself thinks that Mahler's Sixth Symphony is more difficult than climbing a mountain, and it is the touchstone to test the strength of Mahler and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. After 80 minutes, everyone was so looking forward to this thrilling adventure that the tickets for the first performance were sold out early. In order to let more audiences appreciate this legend, the organizer had to set up a stool in the aisle.

On the night of performance in February, 2009 13, several China musicians in the orchestra attracted the audience's attention, among which Chen Murong, a musician from China, and Zhang Liguo, the deputy chief viola, who sat opposite him 10 musicians took the lead in becoming the focus figures before Haidingke took the stage.