Heinz Bongartz

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This article is about the German conductor. "Heinz Bongartz" was also the birth name of Jürgen Thorwald.

Heinz Bongartz (31 July 1894, Krefeld – 5 May 1978, Dresden) was a German conductor and composer. He had several conducting posts in Germany throughout the 20th century.

From 1924 to 1926, Bongartz was Kapellmeister of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, then director of the Meiningen State Orchestra until 1930, and then chief musical director in Gotha until 1933. From 1933 to 1937, he held the office of First State Kapellmeister in Kassel. And from 1939 to 1944, he was General Music Director of the Saarland State Theatre in Saarbrücken. On March 6, 1941, he applied for membership in the Nazi Party and was admitted on April 1 of the same year (membership number 8,744,959).[1][2]

Following the war, he was the first artistic manager of the Dresdner Philharmonie (Dresden Philharmonic Concert Halls) under the East German regime.[3] He headed the orchestra's first tour to the Middle East in January 1967 which began in Beirut, Lebanon. After performing at Beirut's Piccadilly Theatre they performed the first of three concerts at the Cairo Opera House on 8 June. The tour also included performances in Alexandria, Egypt.[4]

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  1. ^ Federal Archives R 9361-IX KARTEI/3811330
  2. ^ Harry Waibel: Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the SBZ/GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1, p. 47.
  3. ^ Clayton, Anthony; Alan Russell (1999). Dresden: A City Reborn. Oxford; New York: Berg. p. 790. ISBN 1-85973-441-3.
  4. ^ Kelly, Elaine (2019). "Performing Diplomatic Relations: Music and East German Foreign Policy in the Middle East during the Late 1960s" (PDF). Journal of the American Musicological Society. 72 (2): 494. doi:10.1525/jams.2019.72.2.493. JSTOR 26855885.
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