Hermann Wunsch (composer)

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Hermann Wunsch (born August 9, 1884 in Neuss ; † December 21, 1954 in Berlin ) was a German composer , conductor , music theorist and lecturer in composition.

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Hermann Wunsch was born in 1884 as the son of the railway foreman Balthasar Wunsch and his wife Amalie Hafels in Neuss in the Rhineland. He began his training with a teacher training college. He then attended the conservatories in Krefeld , where he studied composition with Theodor Müller-Reuter, Düsseldorf , where he was taught by Frank Limbert, and Cologne .

Then Wunsch settled in Krefeld. There he worked for a year as an extraordinary teacher at the conservatory. From 1907 to 1910 he conducted the local Philharmonic Choir and also worked as a private music teacher. Then he took over the management of the newly founded conservatory in Viersen . From 1911 to 1912 Wunsch studied at the Berlin Music Academy with Engelbert Humperdinck . He then worked for a year as music director in Wattwil , Switzerland.

During the First World War , Wunsch served on the Eastern Front . After the war he lived in Berlin. From 1919 to 1920 he taught at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory . He then worked as a freelance composer. He was financially supported by Heinrich Schenker , who in 1924 granted him a scholarship from the Sofie Deutsch Fund for poor musicians. From 1930 to 1931 Wunsch was the choir director of the Stern Conservatory . In 1937 he began to teach composition at the Berlin Conservatory, from 1945 as a professor.

Wish was with Paula Augusta, geb. Peschken, married. The marriage resulted in a son, Hans Wolfgang Wunsch (* 1913).

Hermann Wunsch died in Berlin in 1954 at the age of 70. His grave is in the Dahlem forest cemetery .

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Wunsch composed eight operas , a piano concerto , six symphonies , a mass and some orchestral works. In total, he created around 60 works of almost all musical genres. While his compositional work received relatively little recognition, he was highly valued as a pedagogue and theoretician.

Works (selection)
  • Violin concerto. one movement, world premiere (premiere) 1922 in Berlin.
  • II symphony. Premiere Munich 1923.
  • Little song book for Paula Wunsch: six small, simple tunes for a voice with piano accompaniment. Op. 2. Drei Tannen-Verlag, Berlin 1924.
  • III. Symphony. Premiere Trier 1925.
  • IV Symphony. Premiere Kassel 1927.
  • Bianca. one-act chamber play for music, premier German National Theater Weimar 1927.
  • Don Juan's son. Chamber opera, premier German National Theater Weimar 1928.
  • From the book of hours by Rainer Maria Rilke. (op. 18, 4 songs), Forberg, Leipzig 1924. Premiere Trier 1925.
  • Chamber concert for piano and small orchestra: op. 22. Schott, Mainz 1925. Premiere Kiel 1925, Tonkünstlerfest.
  • Choir of the Theban Ancients: op.32.Br. Hug & Co, Leipzig 1930.
  • with Kurt Heynicke (poetry): Volk: for three-part children resp. Female choir or four-part mixed choir with accompanist a piano or a student orchestra; op. 34. Vieweg, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1930.
  • Mass for male choir. Solos, soprano, alto, tenor, bass and orchestra organ ad libitum: op.36.Br.Br. Hug & Co, Leipzig 1930.
  • Small comedy suite: op.37.Eulenburg, Leipzig 1930.
  • Irreland. Opera. WP Big House at Domhof Osnabrück 1930.
  • Fest auf Monbijou: Suite in five movements for small orchestra; op.50. Eulenburg, Leipzig 1933. Premiere Bonn 1933.
  • French period. Opera. Premiere Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin 1933.
  • The little passion: Mary, our women who dreams; Wk 56. W. Müller, Heidelberg 1957.

Awards

Wish was awarded several music prizes. In 1925 he received the Schott Prize and the City of Trier Prize . His Hammerwerk symphony earned him the Franz Schubert Prize advertised by the Leipzig publisher Hug & Co. In 1928 he received an award for his fifth symphony at the 1928 International Schubert Competition .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wunsch, Hermann In: Erich H. Müller (Hrsg.): German Musicians Lexicon Limpert, 1929, retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, p. 401.
  2. ↑ a b Wunsch, Hermann In: Friedrich Jansa (Hrsg.): German sound artists in words and pictures. 2nd edition, Leipzig 1911, accessed from the German Biographical Archive, p. 908.
  3. ↑ Hermann Wunsch schenkerdocumentsonline.org, accessed on March 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b Wunsch, Hermann In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Deutsche Biografische Enzyklopädie Vol. 10, Saur, Munich 1999, retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, p. 282.
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 590.
  6. ^ Desire, Hermann In: Friedrich Herzfeld (Hrsg.): The New Ullstein Lexicon of Music. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1993, retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, p. 281.
  7. ↑ Joseph Bloch (ed.): Socialist monthly books. Publishing house of the Socialist monthly magazine, Berlin 1930, p. 828.
  8. ^ Desire, Hermann In: Who is who? 12th edition of Degener's Wer ist's ?, Grunewald, Berlin 1955, accessed from the German Biographical Archive, p. 403.
  9. ^ Desire, Hermann In: Hugo Riemann: Musiklexikon. 11th edition, Hesse, Berlin 1929, retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, p. 402.
personal data
SURNAME Wish, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, conductor, music theorist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1954
Place of death Berlin