The native Englishman was one of the most renowned conductors of his Generation. Now, Sir Jeffrey Tate, since 2009, chief conductor of the Hamburg Symphony orchestra has died at the age of 74 years.
Sir Jeffrey Tate died in Bergamo, Italy, of a heart attack, a spokesman for the Hamburg Symphony orchestra announced. The Symphony orchestra were shocked “by the completely unexpected death” deeply. “The unique voice of Jeffrey Tate’s is silenced and will sound in the hearts, in the thoughts and in the memory of numerous admirers, and joy in the world forever,” it said. And further: “His music has made the world a better, and we are for the hours, days and years, we were able to spend with Sir Jeffrey, infinitely and unspeakably grateful.” He had the orchestra like no other, shaped.
In April knighted
Sir Jeffrey Tate was since 2009, chief conductor of the Hamburg Symphony orchestra. He was one of the most respected and versatile conductors of his Generation. In addition to the music of Richard Wagner’s dramas were the works of Mozart and Richard Strauss’ emphasis in his diverse Repertoire. Only at the 19. April of this year, Tate at Buckingham Palace from Prince William had been knighted in recognition for his international contributions to British music. “I have the knight would not expect and maybe you will change my life completely and I still feel a little bit different,” he had said after the ceremony.
Sir Jeffrey Tate in his Element with the Hamburger Symphoniker
In spite of a congenital spine deformation Tate had first studied medicine in Cambridge and for two years as a Junior doctor in London, worked. His musical career began at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London. He worked as an assistant to Herbert von Karajan in Salzburg and James Levine in New York, before he worked as an assistant to Pierre Boulez in 1976, the so-called century-Ring for the Bayreuth festival. Tate was considered one of the most important interpreters of the music of Richard Wagner. He conducted the first complete Paris “Ring” of the post-war period and the first complete “Ring” – production in Australia.
Major Wagner Interpreter
It stops at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Paris and at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, followed. Since the 2009/2010 season, Tate, chief conductor of the Hamburg Symphony orchestra, to be built where he had a special relationship. With a varied program and public actions such as public samples rich you conquered the Hanseatic audience. Critics praised Tate as “precision lovers” and “gourmets of the Details”. His music, the result was “out of Consideration, Knowledge, sensitivity, experience, and magic.” His next concert with the Hamburg Symphony orchestra for the 18. June in the Laeiszhalle – Tate works should, among other things, by Claude Debussy conducting.
nf/kle (dpa/Hamburg Symphony orchestra)