Aleida Montijn

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Aleida Montijn (born August 7, 1908 in Mannheim ; † August 30, 1989 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ; actually Elfriede Wilhelmine Aleida Montijn ) was a German composer , pianist and music teacher .

Life

Aleida Montijn was the daughter of the tobacco salesman Christiaan Montijn, a Dutchman, and his wife Magdalena nee. Strasser. She spent her youth in Mannheim and studied from 1927 to 1930 at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts . She worked with and for the dancer Mary Wigman at their schools in Dresden and Hamburg. In April 1941, in addition to working with Mary Wigman in Dresden, she took the choir master's examination. In 1943, she took her final exam to become a conductor . During the war, he worked in a chocolate factory, among other things. Montijn fled and arrived in Frankfurt am Main in June 1945.

In the 1952/1953 season, Aleida Montijn became Harry Buckwitz's house composer for the drama music of the municipal theaters in Frankfurt am Main . There she wrote over a hundred drama music and helped shape the theater from 1950 to 1974.

In 1948 Montijn published three children's books. She also composed the music for several radio plays and speech records as well as for a music cassette for therapeutic riding. Her works include the music for the radio play Jim Knopf and Lukas der Lokomotivführer by Michael Ende , which was released as a speech record in 1971.

She has long-standing friendships with Wilhelm Furtwängler and Kurt Hessenberg, among others . In the summer of 1953 Montijn met Erwin Piscator as Buckwitz's house composer , whose partner she was then for 13 years.

Aleida Montijn's estate is mainly in the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library , a smaller part in the Southern Illinois University Carbondale .

Works (selection)

Drama music and a.

  • Ballad vom Eulenspiegel (Weiseborn), directed by Dicks, Frankfurt 1950.
  • Lysistrata (Aristophanes), directed by Koch, Frankfurt 1951.

Opera

  • The leather heads , opera in three acts based on Georg Kaiser, 1966–1986.

Ballet music etc. a.

  • Dance evening , choreography: Walter; Zurich 1931.
  • Dances , choreography: Dittler / B. Rogge / Ziegler; Mannheim 1935.
  • Suite for solo and group , choreography: Curth; Dresden 1940.

Cantatas and orchestral music etc. a.

  • The Reiter Cantata , text: Montijn. Dresden 1944.
  • Agfa-Isolette , advertising hit. Frankfurt 1950.

Piano, organ music etc. a.

  • Passionate Etude , 1928.
  • Quintenfoxtrott , 1929.
  • Music for organ , 1982.

Chamber music u. a.

  • String Quartet, 1967.
  • Pushkin's Adventures (strings and harpsichord), 1976.

Discography (selection)

  • Records to the Bible. Episode 1: Old Testament (10 speech plates); Author: JM Hollenbach, director: Hanns Verres; Quadriga-Ton, Frankfurt am Main 1965.
  • Records to the Bible. Episode 2: New Testament (10 speech plates); Author: JM Hollenbach, director: Hanns Verres; Quadriga-Ton, Frankfurt am Main 1965.
  • Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver. (3 speaking plates); Text, director: Michael Ende . Narrator: Michael Ende u. a .; Production: Robert Nettekoven. 1971.

Book publications

  • Aleida Montijn: Messages to KG - memories of a composer. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 1988, ISBN 3-7618-0896-8 .

literature

  • Brunhilde Sunday: Aleida Montijn. "Music as a› comforter ‹". In: Approach I - to seven women composers. Furore-Verlag, Kassel 1986, ISBN 3-9801326-3-3 , pp. 17-25.

TV report

  • Renate Beyer: Music for Wigman and Piscator. Süddeutscher Rundfunk, 1987.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rebecca Berg: Aleida_Montijn In: MUGI. Music education and gender research. Hamburg University of Music and Theater, October 5, 2009, accessed on May 19, 2020.
  2. ^ Aleida Montijn: Messages to KG - memories of a composer. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 1988, ISBN 3-7618-0896-8 .
  3. ^ Aleida Montijn: Messages to KG - memories of a composer. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 1988, ISBN 3-7618-0896-8 , p. 247.
  4. ^ Brunhilde Sonntag : Approach I - to seven female composers. Furore-Edition, Kassel 1986, ISBN 3-9801326-3-3 , p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME Montijn, Aleida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montijn, Elfriede Wilhelmine Aleida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1989
Place of death Bad Homburg vor der Höhe