Adolf Schreiber (composer)
Adolf Schreiber (* 1883 or May 5, 1881 in Prague ; † September 1, 1920 in Wannsee ) was a Bohemian-German composer and conductor.
Life
The son of a Prague upholsterer was supposed to learn a trade, but was able to get through to study at the Prague Conservatory, first in the violin class, before he was accepted into the Kapellmeister class, possibly under Antonín Dvořák .
After that, he immediately had to take a job with which he could make a living. Throughout his life he remained an operetta Kapellmeister with stations in Linz, Tilsit, Ingolstadt, Pilsen, Eger, Hermannstadt, Prague, Bozen, Kronstadt, Hamburg and Berlin. From 1906 he lived, apart from occasional provincial tours, in Berlin , first as Kapellmeister at the Theater des Westens, then at the New Operetta Theater, and finally at the Art Theater. He also gave singing lessons and was for a time a teacher at the New Opera School of the singing teacher Mary Hahn.
He composed stage music, choirs and songs. Due to strong complexes that made him doubt the quality of his music, he remained unsuccessful as a composer despite the encouragement and encouragement from friends like Max Brod . At the end of 1916, Franz Kafka told his fiancée that Schreiber's marriage was unhappy. In 1917 he was exempted from military service for one year because he had survived apex catarrh.
After he had led all the rehearsals for the operetta Die Scheidungsreise at the Berlin Art Theater and was replaced by another conductor shortly before the premiere, he went to Wannsee to commit suicide.
literature
- Max Brod: Adolf Schreiber. A musician's fate. Welt-Verlag, Berlin 1921 ( archive.org ).
- Hubert Reitterer: Schreiber, Adolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 186.
- Hubert Reitterer: Schreiber, Adolf. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Kafka: Postcard to Felice Bauer, September 28, 1916
- ^ Max Brod: Letter to Franz Kafka, around October 1, 1917
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schreiber, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bohemian-German composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1881 or 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague , Bohemia, Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1920 |
| Place of death | Wannsee , Prussia, Weimar Republic |