Gustav Adolf Gunkel

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Gustav Adolf Gunkel (born July 25, 1866 in Dresden ; † March 20, 1901 there ) was a German violinist and composer .

Life

Grave of Gustav Adolf Gunkel in Dresden
Epitaph

Gunkel, son of a court tailor from Vienna and a student at the Dresden Conservatory, had been a violinist in the court orchestra since 1884 . He also worked as a music teacher. Gunkel lived in Dresden until 1898, then in Blasewitz , most recently living with his parents at Weinbergstrasse 4.

Gunkel was shot dead on March 20, 1901 in the tram on Pfotenhauerstraße (Dresden- Johannstadt ) after a concert by 49-year-old Theresia Jahnel. She was the divorced wife of the director of the Austrian Northwest Steamship Company in Aussig and was subsequently admitted to an Austrian mental hospital for life. This fact was later processed by Thomas Mann in his Doctor Faustus .

Gunkel, whose works are now forgotten, wrote works for almost all genres, but primarily his songs appeared in print.

His tomb is in the Trinity Cemetery in Dresden and describes him as Königl. Saxon. Chamber musician .

Catalog of works (selection)

  • Little Beauty, Kiss Me for voice and piano, 1886
  • Holdes Braunes Mädchen for voice and piano, 1888
  • Op. 5 No. 1 slumber song for voice and piano, 1891 (arranged for piano by Paul Colberg alone , 1911)
  • Op. 8 Suite for Violoncello and Piano, 1892
  • Attila - Opera, 1894 (first performed 1895)
  • Op. 20 The Pilgrimage to Kevlaar for voice and piano, 1898
  • Jean Bart - Opera, 1900
  • Op. 48 Nachtphantasien - Last songs for voice and piano, 1902 (Text: Franz Evers )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See address and business manuals of the royal capital and residence of Dresden.
  2. ↑ See: Bernd W. Seiler: Ines und der Trambahnmord. In: Forget. Discover. Lighten. Edited by Jörg Drews. Bielefeld, 1993. pp. 183-203. The article is also available on the Internet at Bielefeld University .
  3. ↑ See Frank Altmann, Tonkünstler-Lexikon, 1936.
  4. ↑ See Hofmeister monthly reports from 1886 to 1902.
personal data
SURNAME Gunkel, Gustav Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gunkel, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1901
Place of death Dresden