Awards & Winners

Otto Gerdes

Date of Birth 20-January-1920
Place of Birth Cologne
(Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne)
Nationality Germany
Also know as Gerdes, Otto
Profession Conductor
Otto Gerdes 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". Gerdes conducted several works for record including the Prelude to Act 1 of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, a complete Tannhäuser 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.

Awards by Otto Gerdes

Check all the awards nominated and won by Otto Gerdes.

1969


Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording
Honored for : Wagner: Siegfried
(Producer, Artist)

Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording Wagner: Siegfried