Carl Friedemann

Title page Kaiser Friedrich Marsch , 1910

Carl Berthold Ulrich Friedemann (* 29. April 1862 in Mücheln at Merseburg ; † 9. April 1952 in Bern ) was a German-Swiss composer , conductor and musician .

Life

As a young boy he received piano and violin lessons . He studied music in Halle (Saale) and with the Hofkapellmeister Emil Büchner in Erfurt . He conducted the orchestra of the Reunion Theater in Erfurt from 1883 to 1885. In the meantime he had also learned to play the clarinet . He joined the music corps of the 3rd Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 71 in Erfurt. There he continued his musical training and found the opportunity to work as a soloist in concerts as a violinist and pianist. He also worked as a conductor in various choirs and choral societies. In 1888 he composed in homage to the dying Emperor Friedrich III. the now well-known Kaiser Friedrich March . On November 5, 1890, he passed the military conductor examination at the University of Music in Berlin .

On September 20, 1891, he was appointed conductor of the music corps of the 5th Baden Infantry Regiment No. 113 in Freiburg im Breisgau . He worked here for 21 years and his fame as a conductor and composer had long since extended beyond the country's borders. In 1901 he was appointed Royal Kapellmeister and in 1906 Royal Music Director. In January 1912 Carl Friedemann gave his farewell concert with his regimental band at Café Kropf in Freiburg im Breisgau. For health reasons he left military music in 1912, but his career as a musician did not end there.

A new engagement was waiting for him in Bern , Switzerland . There he took over the direction of the Stadtmusik Bern and led this orchestra to a remarkable level. Friedemann was not entirely unfamiliar with the town music of Bern, as he was a member of the jury at the 1906 Federal Music Festival in Freiburg , which awarded town music the first gold laurel in the first category in the first place. With this band he made trips to Germany, France, Italy and Spain. When he retired in 1933, he also made his position as conductor available. In 1935 he was appointed professor because of his special services to music. He also founded his own publishing company and a music school in Bern.

Friedemann wrote symphonic music, chamber music, choral works and songs. Of course, his oeuvre also includes works for wind orchestra, such as 140 marches.

Works

Works for orchestra

• Symphony No. 1
• Symphony No. 2
• Rhapsody for violin and orchestra

Works for wind orchestra

• 1888 Kaiser Friedrich March opus 66
• 1903 First Slavic Rhapsody opus 114
• 1912 Greetings to Bern March
• 1923 Fantasy Caprice
• 1923 Festival hymn for the Federal Music Festival opus 204
• 1923 minuet
• 1931 Life a Struggle Overture
• 1931 Pro Gloria et Patria festival music for the Federal Music Festival in Bern, opus 258
• 1933 Good Comrades March
• 1933 Our field gray march
• 1933 Loyalty to the flag march
• 1948 The red domino overture
• 1948 The journey to happiness overture
• 1948 Life is serious, art is serene , overture, opus 318
• 1948 Hero and Leander symphonic poetry
• 1948 Mirella Overture
• Admiral March
• To the Spring Fantasy, opus 195
• To the music fantasy, opus 215
• At Umkirch Castle opus 91
• From the south of Italy
• Concertino for clarinet and wind orchestra opus 58
• Concertino for clarinet opus 182
• Dear old Bern
• The violin maker from Mittenwald
• Dramatic Overture , opus 109
• Third Slavic Rhapsody opus 297
• United and strong opus 153
• Memories of Freiburg , opus 165
• Fantasy about "Daughter of the Regiment" opus 192
• Festive polonaise opus 77
• Festive tournament music of medieval trumpet and timpani art
• Festival march to the Federal Gymnastics Festival opus 133
• Fortuna Overture, opus 198
• Introduction and minuet opus 217
• Cantata for the Federal Music Festival opus 205
• March of the Patriots opus 327
• Obituary for Joseph Haydn
• Orchestra variations opus 60
• Overture to "Minna von Barnhelm" opus 181
• Overture to "Till Eulenspiegel" opus 221
• Paraphrase on the song "From the time of my youth" by Robert Radecke
• Knight Bluebeard Overture, opus 300
• Roland the Armourer Overture
• Sanssouci overture
• Victory Trophies - March, opus 125
• Symphonic prologue opus 175
• Sonata in one movement opus 289
• Student Heart March opus 126
• Fourth Slavic Rhapsody
• Second Slavic Rhapsody opus 269
• Two winter dances

literature

• Paul E. Bierley, William H. Rehrig: The heritage encyclopedia of band music: composers and their music . Integrity Press, Westerville, Ohio 1991, ISBN 0-918048-08-7 .
• Roland Casario: Carl Bertold Ulrich Friedemann 1862–1952 . In: With sounding game. Military music - then and now. Journal of the German Society for Military Music 2002, ISSN  1617-1969 , p. 404.
• Paul Frank, Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rosner: Concise Tonkünstler Lexicon. Second part: additions and extensions since 1937 . 15th edition. Volume 1: A-K. Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1974, ISBN 3-7959-0083-2 ; Volume 2: L-Z. Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1976, ISBN 3-7959-0087-5 .
• Herbert Frei: Swiss marches, Swiss march composers. A lexicon . Verlag Herbert Frei, Mellingen 1988, ISBN 3-905655-01-2 .
• Erich Hermann Müller von Azow, Hedwig Müller von Azow: Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954 . Second edition of the German Musicians Lexicon. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1954.
• Werner Probst: Carl Friedemann: Catalog of works . In: With sounding game. Military music - then and now. Journal of the German Society for Military Music 1997, ISSN  1617-1969 , pp. 80–87.
• Rolf Schumacher: Carl Friedemann (1862–1952): A master of the modern march . In: Swiss brass music newspaper. 75 (1986) No. 13, ZDB ID 2314285-6 , pp. 5-7.
• Norman E. Smith: March music notes . Program Note Press, Lake Charles, La. 1986, ISBN 0-9617346-1-2 .
• Norman E. Smith: Program notes for band . GIA Publications, Chicago 2002, ISBN 1-57999-147-5 , p. 212 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Wolfgang Suppan, Armin Suppan : The New Lexicon of Brass Music . 4th edition. Blasmusikverlag Schulz GmbH, Freiburg-Tiengen 1994, ISBN 3-923058-07-1 .
• Joachim Toeche-Mittler: Army marches - Part 1 - A historical chat between regimental music and trumpet corps all about German marching music . 2nd Edition. Kurt Vowinckel Verlag, Neckargemünd 1971, OCLC 257190496 .
• Joachim Toeche-Mittler: Army marches - Part III: the history of our march music . Spemann, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-87879-098-8 .

Web links

• Works by and about Carl Friedemann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sheet music and audio files from Carl Friedemann in the International Music Score Library Project