1. Gerd Schaller was born on 1965 and is a German conductor, best known for his performing and recording rare works, including the first full recordings of Bruckner's output.
12 Facts About Gerd Schaller
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Gerd Schaller took up his first post at the Hanover Staatsoper in 1993.
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Gerd Schaller's repertoire includes conducting German and Italian works, including those of Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, and Giuseppe Verdi.
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In 1990, Gerd Schaller established the Ebrach Summer Music Festival in Franconia, and he remains its artistic director.
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In 2016, Gerd Schaller was unanimously selected by the Bruckner Society of America as the recipient of its Julio Kilenyi Medal of Honor.
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Gerd Schaller is noted for his recordings of all of Anton Bruckner's symphonies, including versions never recorded before, for the Profil label of Edition Gunter Hanssler.
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Additionally, Gerd Schaller was able to supplement archival and manuscript material with missing elements in the score by drawing on his experience as a conductor, and of applying Bruckner's compositional techniques to the recordings of the complete cycle of all the composer's eleven symphonies; so that even passages without continuous original material are in a recognisably Brucknerian style.
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Gerd Schaller first performed his version of the finale with the Philharmonie Festiva in the abbey church at Ebrach on July 24,2016, as part of the Ebrach Summer Music Festival.
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Ken Ward writes in The Bruckner Journal of Gerd Schaller's aims in embarking on his completion:.
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Gerd Schaller has attached particular importance to more clarity and clarity of the structures.
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Gerd Schaller's recording career has had a strong emphasis on lesser-known operas and concert rarities, including the first recordings of numerous pieces.
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Gerd Schaller's recording of Merlin won the ECHO Klassik Prize in 2010 in the "Opera Recording of the Year " category.