Albert Jung (composer)

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Albert Jung (born April 29, 1899 in St. Ingbert ; † December 29, 1970 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a conductor , conductor and composer . His most important places of work were Bad Orb , Frankfurt am Main, Saarbrücken , Thessaloniki and Würzburg . Jung worked in the orchestral, radio and television sectors.

Life and career

Albert Jung was born on April 29, 1899 in St. Ingbert in Saarland , which at that time still belonged to Bavaria . His parents were, Johann Jung († December 12, 1918), owners of a bicycle workshop in St. Ingbert and Margarete Jung († August 1, 1918). Albert Jung attended high school in neighboring Zweibrücken , which he graduated from high school in 1918.

Albert Jung's musical talent was recognized and promoted early on . In addition to school, he received additional private music lessons and was a frequent guest at the Saarbrücken theater with his culturally obsessed mother. It soon became clear that he would not follow in his father's footsteps with technical training. Instead, he went to the High School for Studies in philosophy and art history to the University of Würzburg . Here, in addition to his main subjects, he pursued a general study , which also included counterpoint and a lot more.

Other stations in Albert Jung's career were: in the 1920s studying piano with Willy Renner in Frankfurt am Main and teaching composition with Bernhard Sekles in Frankfurt am Main. Bernhard Sekle's pupils were musicians as diverse as Theodor W. Adorno and Paul Hindemith . Finally, in 1932, Jung took private conducting lessons with Hermann von Schmeidel in Frankfurt in order to take over the Bad Orb spa orchestra.

Albert Jung remained connected to Bad Orb as music director throughout his life. He died in Frankfurt on December 29, 1970.

Work as a musician and composer

As a schoolboy, Albert Jung, as was customary at the time, occasionally accompanied silent film productions with music on the piano. During his school days in Würzburg he met the virtuoso violinist and Paganini's Redivivus Jules Siber and became his sensitive companion on the piano under the artist name Albert Jung-Clément.

Since 1920 he was based in Bad Orb, initially only during the semester break, later permanently. He quickly became a fixture in the musical life of the spa town. He works with Georg Henkel and together with Richard Zentgraf he organizes cultural celebrations. In this context, Melchior Lechter also plays an important role. In the twenties and thirties he was a frequent guest in Bad Orb and moved into the Germania house, where Jung also stayed.

From 1932 to 1935 Jung was the spa conductor in Bad Orb. From the 1934 season he organized a collaboration between the spa orchestras from Bad Orb and Bad Brückenau , so that a body of up to 43 musicians was created, an impressive size for the two small spa towns.

With the "wake-up call" , Op. 9, from 1934, which he wrote for the Saar vote the following year and his “Festmusik Op. 6 ”, from 1927 Albert Jung's life got a political side when the latter work became the opening music of the party congress of the NSDAP . It led him to the position of Kapellmeister at the Reichsender Saarbrücken, which he held from December 1, 1935 to 1939. His friend Heinrich Heim , who, as an early member of the NS party, was initially a colleague of Hans Frank's office and later an adjutant of Martin Bormann , also brought him close to the Nazi leadership .

During the war, Jung was initially employed by the Wehrmacht broadcaster in Ukraine and later in Greece . There he directed the Greek orchestra at the Saloniki Theater. Jung found many friends in Saloniki who continued to accompany him personally and musically. These activities and this time led to a gradual alienation and distance from militarism and National Socialism in general for Albert Jung . So on October 3, 1947, the denazification chamber was able to determine that Albert Jung was only “a fellow traveler - Group IV”. In 1948 a new start as music director could begin in Bad Orb.

It was to be a period of 20 years in which Albert Jung dynamically designed the entire professional cultural program of the rapidly developing spa town. The symphony concerts soon blew up the tight course season, which is already reflected in the name “Städtisches und Kurorchester” in the 1948/49 season. First-class soloists such as Ludwig Hoelscher (cello) and Heinrich Fink (violin) often came to the spa town. Elly Ney (piano) later joined this illustrious series , along with many others . Old friends from Albert Jung's time in Saloniki were also there. The new, modern concert hall designed by the architect Bruno Rücker became his temple of music.

The years from 1948 until his death in 1970 also marked the time when there was no more space left for the composer Albert Jung besides the work of music director Jung, but the need for self-creative activity was also slowed down. The “Fantasia appassionata” Op. 16 for large orchestra from 1948, his last large orchestral work. Only after the end of his career as a conductor did Albert Jung begin composing again.

reception

In his own compositions, Albert Jung is clearly committed to tonality . As his most balanced, best and most beautiful works, the “ Passacaglia ” Op. 10 for large orchestra and organ and the “Fantasia appassionata” Op. 16 apply. The latter work met with a wide response from the general public and the specialist press. Some of Albert Jung's works found their way into the large concert halls, such as the “Sinfonietta for Large Orchestra” Op. 5, premiered in the State Opera Unter den Linden .

List of works (excerpt)

  • "German Sailor Song" , based on Hermann Löns . Jung's first printed work, 1915
  • "Valse-Caprice"
  • Setting of the stage work by Waldfried Burggraf, alias Friedrich Forster : "Madeleine and her Page Hyazinth"
  • Several poems by Beate Lvovský-Clément are set to music, e. B. "Autumn shower" and "Song to the moon" .
  • “Festive Dances” , orchestral suite
  • “Sinfonietta” , Op. 5
  • “Festival Music” , Op. 6, Munich: FEC Leuckart Musikverlag; Leipzig: Edition Peters Group, Leipzig, London, New York
  • “Rhapsody” , Op. 7th
  • “Wake Up Call” , Op. 9, 1934, Planegg: Philipp Grosch; Planegg near Munich: Elisabeth Thomi-Berg music publishing and publishing house deliveries
  • “Passacaglia” , Op. 10, 1935
  • “Fantasia appassionata” , Op. 16, 1948

Honourings and prices

  • Kurt Faber Prize, 1935
  • Music Prize of the "Westmark" 1935

literature

  • Kürschner's German musicians calendar, 1954
  • Ralph Philipp Ziegler - "The Silent Valley", CoCon-Verlag, 200x
  • Elsbeth Ziegler: Between seduction and distance, Gelnhäuser Tageblatt, December 16, 2015
  • Ralph Philipp Ziegler: An eventful artist's life, Gelnhäuser Neue Zeitung, April 20, 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralph Philipp Ziegler: "Das stille Tal" , CoCon Verlag, p. 13
  2. ↑ Ralph Philipp Ziegler: "Das stille Tal", CoCon Verlag, p. 14 u. 16
  3. ↑ Ralph Philipp Ziegler: "Das stille Tal", CoCon Verlag, pp. 12 and 18
  4. ↑ Ralph Philipp Ziegler: "Das stille Tal", CoCon Verlag, p. 80
  5. ↑ Ralph Philipp Ziegler: "Das stille Tal" , CoCon Verlag, p. 49
  6. ↑ Ralph Philipp Ziegler: "Das stille Tal" , CoCon Verlag, p. 48
  7. ↑ Ralph Philipp Ziegler: "Das stille Tal" , CoCon Verlag, p. 13
  8. ↑ Ralph Philipp Ziegler: "Das stille Tal" , CoCon Verlag, p. 18
  9. ↑ Ralph Philipp Ziegler: "The silent valley" , CoCon Verlag, p. 17 u. 18th
  10. ↑ Ralph Philipp Ziegler: "Das stille Tal" , CoCon Verlag, pp. 23-26
  11. ↑ Ralph Philipp Ziegler: "Das stille Tal" , CoCon Verlag, p. 45

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personal data
SURNAME Jung, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, Kapellmeister and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Ingbert
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1970
Place of death Frankfurt am Main