Heribert Esser

Heribert Esser (born 12 January 1929) is a German conductor and academic teacher. In 1962–1986, he held the position of director of music at Braunschweig, and the Elder Chair of Music at the Elder Conservatorium of Music of the University of Adelaide, South Australia, from 1987 to 1994. Most recently he conducted the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle.

Life Esser was born in 1929 as the son of civil servant Edmund Esser and his wife Gertrud, née Krahforst, in Rheinhausen (today Duisburg). he studied until 1952 at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. and held this office for 25 years. In 1969, for a recording of Paganini's Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, he conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra (soloist Shmuel Ashkenasi).

From 1987 to 1994, he succeeded David Galliver as music professor (Elder Chair of Music) at the Elder Conservatorium of Music at the University of Adelaide in South Australia, serving as its director from 1988 to 1992. In 2000, he was editor of the work The Art of Performance by Heinrich Schenker.

In 2004, he succeeded Wolf-Dieter Hauschild as Chief Conductor of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle, which was about to undergo an orchestral merger. After his guest conducting in 2005/06, the orchestra was transferred to the Staatskapelle Halle.

Esser, a Catholic, has been married to Rosemarie, née Clormann, since 1958.

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