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Jan 20, 1920 Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany Died on 15 Jun 1989 (aged 69)
German musician
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About Otto Gerdes
- Otto Gerdes (born January 20, 1920 in Cologne and died June 15, 1989) was a German conductor and record producer. He studied music at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, including conducting with Hermann Abendroth.
- He conducted opera in Berlin, Dresden, Koblenz, Leipzig, and Munich.
- He also conducted the radio orchestras of Baden-Baden and Cologne and led concerts with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden.
- In 1956 he became a record producer for Deutsche Grammophon and 1963 the label's artistic director.
- His conducting for that label began when he filled in for an ailing conductor, recording excerpts from the opera Eugene Onegin. He was dismissed at Deutsche Grammophon in the mid-1960s.
- The incident that led to his dismissal was recounted in Richard Osborne's 1998 biography of Herbert von Karajan.
- Gerdes, fresh from a conducting assignment, addressed Karajan as one conductor to another with a "Herr Kollege" (my dear colleague).Gerdes conducted several works for record including the Prelude to Act 1 of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, a complete Tannhäuser (Dresden version) as well as Wagner's rarely recorded Symphony in C major.
- He also conducted a recording of the Brahms 4th Symphony. Included in Gerde's awards as a producer was the Grammy Award for production on the opera Wozzeck conducted by Karl Böhm (1966).
