Armin Knab

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Bust of Armin Knab in the courtyard of the Armin-Knab-Gymnasium in Kitzingen
Armin-Knab-Haus, the composer's birthplace in Neuschleichach

Armin Knab (born February 19, 1881 in Neuschleichach, today part of Oberaurach , Lower Franconia ; † June 23, 1951 in Bad Wörishofen ) was a German composer , musician and lawyer .

Life

The boy grew up in the school in Kitzingen , where his father was transferred as teacher and head of the Catholic Singknaben alumnate a year after the son was born. He attended the “Royal Latin School and Progymnasium” there. After graduating from high school in 1900, Knab studied law and musicology in Würzburg and Munich . During his studies he became a member of the AMV zu Würzburg . In 1907 he passed the state examination in law.

From 1913 Armin Knab was a district judge in Kitzingen, as well as a judge in Rothenburg ob der Tauber , in Fürth and most recently in Würzburg for many years . Since the beginning of his legal career, he was so absorbed by his professional obligations that because of the double burden of being a lawyer on the one hand and a passionate musician on the other, he got into a life crisis, which he overcame. He chose music .

From around 1920 Armin Knab became known through songs in the youth and school music movement. After working in Fürth for a short time, he returned to Würzburg in 1927 until he was called to Berlin. From 1934 on, Armin Knab was finally able to devote himself entirely to music as a teacher of music theory and composition at the State University for Music Education and Church Music in Berlin .

After his apartment in Berlin was destroyed in 1943, Knab spent the last years of the war and the post-war period in Kitzingen. When he finally got an apartment in Würzburg in the spring of 1951, he could no longer settle in. He died in 1951 while taking a spa stay in Bad Wörishofen. His grave is in the old cemetery in Kitzingen.

Works

Knab is particularly known for his piano and lute songs, but also choral songs and oratorios . He also set poems by Goethe , Hölderlin and Alfred Mombert, among others . The reuse of old musical instruments and old folk music , but also the promotion of a cappella singing, were particularly important to him.

His works are permeated time and again by his personal impressions and experiences of the Franconian landscape . This is particularly evident in his book Hikes and Travel in Franconia .

Between 1905 and 1920 Knab wrote several mostly popular song cycles, which are structured as follows:

various

expenditure

  • Hello, you beautiful May. A spring cantata based on folk songs for youth choir, individual voices, speaker, recorder and violin by Armin Knab. B. Schott's Sons, Mainz-Leipzig 1935, score (Edition Schott 2444), singing and performing score, choir part.
  • From old fairy tales , suite for piano. Tonger, Cologne
  • The Christmas Ship , a suite of Christmas songs for piano four hands. Tonger, Cologne
  • Sun and rain , eighteen piano pieces and songs. A "youth album" of our time. Tonger. Cologne
  • The other leaves from the tree wanted . Fairy tale cantata based on the poem by Friedrich Rückert for lead singer, youth choir and orchestra. Ludwig Voggenreiter, Potsdam
  • Mombert songs. For a voice and piano. Opus 6, Issue 1-2. Wunderhorn-Verlag, Munich 1912
  • Lute songs (complete edition). Möseler Verlag, Wolfenbüttel / Zurich.

literature

  • Detailed information about the works of Knab and their meaning are given in the series of Fränkische Lebensbilder (Ed. Society for Fränkische Geschichte eV, series FL, Volume V, pages 282-313).
  • Armin Knab: Hikes and journeys in Franconia . Stürtz, Würzburg 1966.
  • Oskar Lang, Paula Yvonne Knab: Armin Knab - A master of German song art . Echter Verlag, Würzburg 1981, ISBN 3-429-00730-5 .
  • Franz Krautwurst:  Knab, Armin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 147 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Franz Krautwurst: Armin Knab . In: Composers in Bavaria . Volume 13. Schneider, Tutzing 1991, ISBN 3-7952-0666-9 .
  • Friedrich Zipp: Folk song and chorale in the work of Armin Knab . Merseburger Verlag 1991.
  • Ernst Klee : Armin Knab. In: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 316.

Remarks

  1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book. Membership directory of all old men. As of October 1, 1937. Hanover 1937, p. 229.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 316.
  3. ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 1273, note 60.

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personal data
SURNAME Knab, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuschleichach, today part of Oberaurach, Lower Franconia
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1951
Place of death Bad Woerishofen