Ernst Mielck

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Ernst Leopold Christian Mielck (born October 24, 1877 in Vyborg , Viipuri in Finnish ; † October 22, 1899 in Locarno ) was a Finnish composer and pianist .

Life

Mielck came from an originally Lübeck merchant family who had lived in Wiborg for three generations. He was the son of the businessman Theodor Wilhelm Mielck (1854–1914) and his Finnish-Swedish wife Angelica Irene, nee. Fabritius (1857–1925) The parents' house was strongly culturally and musically oriented, so that the weak and sickly son Ernst from the start received his first piano lessons from Albert Tietze (only) at the age of 10. In 1891 he was sent to the Stern Conservatory in Berlin for further musical training . Here he was a student of Heinrich Ehrlich and Robert Radecke . He stayed in Berlin with interruptions until 1898; In 1893 he became a private student of Max Bruch , who spoke highly of him.

In 1894 Mielck made his debut as a pianist in Vyborg with the Piano Concerto in G minor by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , and in 1897 he also gave concerts in Helsinki , where his symphony in F minor, his most important work, was performed. His works were all created within just four years. His early death at the age of 22 - he died of tuberculosis in Locarno on Lake Maggiore - dashed all hopes that a composer of importance would develop here (as a counterpoint to Jean Sibelius ).

Musically, Mielck ties in with the great composers Beethoven , Brahms , Schumann and Mendelssohn in his symphony . The influence of the tonal language of his teacher Max Bruch is also unmistakable.

Works

  • Symphony in F minor op.4 Fairy Tale Symphony (1896/97)
  • Macbeth , Overture op.2 (1895/96)
  • Dramatic Overture op.6 (1898)
  • Concert piece for violin and orchestra in D major op.8 (1898)
  • Concert piece for piano and orchestra in E minor, Op. 9 (1898)
  • Finnish Suite for Orchestra in D minor op.10 (1899)
  • Old Bohemian Christmas carol , cantata for mixed choir and orchestra op.5, Leipzig: Hofmeister 1897
Score digitized , Lübeck City Library
Piano reduction digitized , Lübeck City Library
  • Old Germanic Yule Festival (poem by Hermann Allmers ), cantata for baritone solo and male choir with accompaniment of the orchestra or pianoforte op.7, Leipzig: Hofmeister 1898
Score digitized , Lübeck City Library
Piano reduction digitized , Lübeck City Library
  • String Quartet in G minor, Op. 1 (1895)
  • String Quintet in F major op.3 (1897)
  • Three Fantasy Pieces on Finnish Polka Motifs for Piano (1895)
  • Songs
  • further piano works

literature

  • Emil Krause : A reference to the representatives of the art of music in Finland. In: Blätter für Haus- und Kirchenmusik 5 (1901), pp. 35–37
  • Wilhelm Mauke : Ernst Mielck: A short artist life. Leipzig: Hofmeister 1901
  • Mielck, Ernst , in: Riemann Musiklexikon . 8th edition Leipzig 1916, p. 718
  • Mielck, Ernst , in: The Music in Past and Present (MGG) Volume 9, p. 278

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Robert Schweitzer: Lübecker in Finland: Historical Background and Emigration in the Autonomous Period. In: Zeitschrift des Verein für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde 71 (1991), pp. 125–220, here p. 206
  2. ↑ Krause (lit.)
personal data
SURNAME Mielck, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mielck, Ernst Leopold Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Vyborg
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1899
Place of death Locarno