Charles Bruck

Charles Bruck is a leader free-Hungarian, born the May 2nd 1911 with Timisoara (city of the Empire Austro-Hungarian until 1918) and dead the July 16th 1995 with Hancock (in the state of the Maine to the the United States).

Biography

In 1928, it leaves the Romania for one year of studies to Vienna, then settles with Paris. In France, he studies with the Teacher training school of music with Alfred Cortot, Nadia Boulanger like Vlado Perlemuter. As from 1934, he becomes the pupil of Pierre Monteux which has just created a school of direction of orchestra related to the Symphony orchestra of Paris. At Monteux, Bruck approaches an extremely vast repertory: not only French music, with in particular Berlioz, but also Beethoven, Brahms, Stravinski, like Bartók, Janáček and musics of Central Europe in general. At the beginning of the Second world war in 1939, Charles Bruck takes French nationality and enters Resistance. At the end of the hostilities, it is invited to direct the Orchestre of French Broadcasting. It ensures then the direction of the orchestra of the Dutch Opera Amsterdam between 1950 and 1954, before being named with the head of the Symphony orchestra of the radio of Strasbourg in 1955. It then will ensure, at an intensive pace, during one decade, in the concerts proposing almost systematically contemporary creations, even if explorations stylistics and harmonics of these compositions caused sharp oppositions as much among the musicians that the public.

Charles Bruck regained Paris in 1965 to take the direction of the Philharmonic orchestra of the ORTF (which was going to become in 1989 the Philharmonic orchestra of Radio France), but it will be isolated five years later, not only because it wanted to impose too many works of modern music, but also because of his character considered to be ebullient and impulsive. He then took the succession of his Master, Pierre Monteux (1875-1964), with the head of the school of direction of orchestra that this one had created with Hancock in the United States. Charles Bruck will remain thus musical director and main teacher of this establishment during nearly a quarter century.

Repertory

Burning defender of the type-setters of his century, convinced of the need for creating, for exploring, Charles Bruck directed hundreds of the first hearings, shared between first Frenchwomen, among whom those of Ligeti, and world creations of works of Xenakis, Messiaen or Boulez.

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