Schuricht Carl

The Collection Schuricht Carl

Together with Wilhelm Furtwängler, Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter, Erich Kleiber and Karl Böhm, Carl Schuricht belonged to the generation of German conductors who were born before the turn of the 20th century. They were trained as conductors in classical-romantic symphonic repertoire and the then contemporary music of late Bruckner, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and Max Reger. Schuricht always remained totally faithful to a work's original intent.

He performed mainly symphonic works from the Classical and Romantic eras - Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Bruckner, as well as Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and Reger. One might add Bizet and Jacques Offenbach to this list; and of course Johann Sebastian Bach, whose works he frequently performed. Gustav Mahler's works engaged and enriched Schuricht throughout his lifetime; this interest took him into the realms of what was then known as "contemporary" music, encompassing the works of Bartók, Hindemith, Pfitzner, Stravinsky, Honegger, Schönberg, Debussy and Ravel.