Adolf Vogl (composer)

Adolf Vogl (born December 18, 1873 in Munich , † February 2, 1961 in Munich) was a German composer and music writer.

Vogl was born as the son of the Wagner-singer couple Heinrich and Therese Vogl. Having grown up in the spiritual and musical atmosphere of Bayreuth, after attending a high school in Munich and receiving musical training from the court musician Hailer, as a young man he embarked on a career as a composer and conductor. After engagements as Kapellmeister in Trier, Saarbrücken, St. Gallen and Bern, he returned to Munich. Under the influence of his mentor Hermann Levi, he immersed himself in particular in the work of Richard Wagner , whose best connoisseur he was ultimately considered to be.

Vogl achieved a greater success in 1904 when his three-act musical drama Maja, set in India, was premiered in the Stuttgart court theater.

On April 6, 1920, Vogl joined what was then the German Workers 'Party , in which he received membership number 940 and in which it remained even after it was renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). Through the writer Dietrich Eckart - whose Lorenzaccio he set to music - Vogl came into contact with Adolf Hitler , who frequented his house until 1929. Although Vogl did not rejoin the NSDAP after it was re-established in 1925, Hitler selected him as a music teacher for his niece Geli Raubal .

In 1933 Vogl was briefly imprisoned in the Stadelheim prison. After his release he lived in economically desolate conditions in Munich.

Works

• Tristan and Isolde. Letters to a German stage artist , 1913.
• Parsifal, deep look into the mysteries of the stage consecration festival , Munich 1914.
• Berta Morena and her art. Thirty-two commemorative sheets from the life of the artist, with a psychological consideration of her personality , 1919.
• Lorenzaccio. Tragedy in five acts by DE, music by Adolf Vogl. Score for large orchestra. Opalographically reproduced as a manuscript , Munich 1922.
• The unwilling marriage: comedy opera in three acts freely based on A. Dumas , 1935. (together with Wolfram Humperdinck)
• The damned. Opera in 1 act , 1934. (together with Hanns von Gumppenberg)