Paul Winter (composer)

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Paul Winter (born January 29, 1894 in Neuburg an der Donau , † March 1, 1970 in Munich ) was a German composer and officer , most recently lieutenant general in World War II .

Life

Winter was the son of a lawyer from Neuburg (birthplace: Schrannenplatz 127, today men's clothing from Brenner). He received his first musical lessons from his mother at the age of four.

After attending elementary school, Winter attended the humanistic high school in his hometown between 1904 and 1912 . In addition to the curriculum, he received well-founded lessons in choral singing , instrumental music (organ and various string instruments) and music theory . As a result, in the last two years as a high school student, he advanced to become the organist of the study church . As such, he also tried his hand at composing.

After graduating from high school, Winter decided to pursue an officer career at his father's request. He joined the 8th Field Artillery Regiment of the Bavarian Army in Nuremberg in 1912 and took part in the First World War. At the end of the war, Winter was first lieutenant and regimental adjutant .

After the war, Winter was taken over by the Reichswehr . In the years between 1919 and 1923, however, he was largely released from service for his studies. He married in the summer of 1920 and began to study philosophy, literature and music history at the University of Erlangen , but after a few semesters switched to the same subjects at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Between 1925 and 1928 Winter was a student in Hans Pfitzner's master class for composition at the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin . Winter was able to successfully complete this course in 1928.

Radio recordings of his fairy tale opera Falada made the winter of 1938 known to a wider audience nationwide.

In the winter of 1947/1948 Winter settled in Neuhaus am Schliersee and worked there as a composer, organist and music historian. In the following year, Winter was appointed lecturer for music theory and music history at the “Municipal Music and Orchestra Preschool” in Munich; he held this office until 1958.

This year the Lassus Music Circle elected him as its Vice President, making research, development and performance of works by European polychoral music a dominant focus of his work. For the Lassus music group, Winter organized numerous concert tours to the original sites of polychoralism (especially to Venice ). Through this work, Winter is still considered by many to be the rediscoverer of this music genre, which was believed to be lost. He was particularly interested in maintaining music at the Palatinate-Neuburg court , and he successfully endeavored to publish and re-perform the works of former Neuburg court composers and court musicians.

Paul Winter died in Munich on March 1, 1970 at the age of 76 and found his final resting place in the old cemetery in Neuburg an der Donau (Franziskanerstraße, West Wall).

Military career

At the end of the war he had the rank of lieutenant general. 1945 arrest and until 1947 stay in American internment camps (including Allendorf), participation in the " Historical Division ".

According to a letter from the Military Intelligence Company in the Allendorf camp, the whereabouts of the documents sent to the Karlsruhe Spruchkammer for the “denazification” of Lieutenant General Paul Winter is no longer traceable. In the course of denazification, Paul Winter was dismissed as "not affected" by the Miesbach Chamber of Justice on November 5, 1947 .

Honors

In addition to these numerous honors, his hometown Neuburg also keeps the memory of a great son alive. On the occasion of his 90th birthday, the “Staatliche Knaben-Realschule” was renamed Paul-Winter-Realschule; The widow Paul Winters was able to take part in these celebrations. On the occasion of his 100th birthday, which the city of Neuburg celebrated in the city theater, a bronze plaque was attached to the house where Paul Winter was born. Furthermore, a street in Neuburg was named after him.

Works

Compositions
  • 1936: Composition of the "Olympic Fanfares" for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
  • 1937: Music contribution to the "Days of German Art".
  • 1938: "Greater Germany" on April 10, 1938. Fanfare
  • 1938: "Falada"
  • 1942: Swabian Cantata (with Oskar Besemfelder)
  • 1942: Two Christmas carols; High Night (with Hans Baumann)
  • [1944]: Our morning is in the east. 6 Ostland songs (Hans Baumann, arr. Paul Winter)
  • 1950: Composition of the Singspiel "Das Steinerne Herz"
  • 1954: Heimatfestspiel "Rendezvous bei Höchstadt 1704" (birthplace of his father)
  • 1955: "Neuburger Steckenreitertanz" (children's ballet) on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the Principality of Palatinate-Neuburg
  • 1958: Festival music "800 Years of the City of Munich"
  • 1960: “Festfanfare” for the World Eucharistic Congress in Munich

Paul Winter composed other songs, sacred works, chamber music, tower music as well as funk and film music.

Fonts
  • Music maintenance in the Wehrmacht , in: von Hase (ed.): Yearbook of German Music 1943, p. 54.
  • Goethe experienced church music in Italy. Presentation based on personal reports. Dulk, Hamburg 1949.
  • The multi-choir style. Historical notes for today's practice. Peters, Frankfurt am Main 1964.

Paul Winter continued to write articles for music magazines and reference books.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv IV , cf. 22396. War ranking.
  2. ↑ Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv Pers. 6/1002.
  3. ↑ Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv Pers. 6/1002.
  4. ^ Munich State Archives, Miesbach Chamber of Judges; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, manuscript department, legacy Paul Winter Ana 588, military varia.
  5. ↑ Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, manuscript department, estate of Paul Winter Ana 588, Spruchkammerverfahren, Allendorf camp June 18, 1947.
  6. ^ Sketches, No. 11, November 1936, p. 9.
  7. ^ Archive Haus der Kunst in Munich, program booklet for the 1937 pageant.
  8. ↑ German National Library; Catalog of the German Music Archive; "Sketches" May 12, 1938; Munich Latest News, April 7, 1938: Zeitschrift für Musik, Issue 5, May 1938, p. 524; Fred Prieberg: Music in the Nazi State, 1982; P. 380.
  9. ^ German National Library Catalog of the German Music Archive
  10. ↑ German National Library; Catalog of the German Music Archive
  11. ↑ German National Library; Catalog of the German Music Archive
  12. ↑ German National Library; Catalog of the German Music Archive
  13. ↑ Dorothea Kolland: Frontmusik, p. 12, note 31
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuburg on the Danube
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1970
Place of death Munich