Alfred Baresel

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Alfred Baresel (born January 10, 1893 in Leipzig , † November 7, 1984 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German music critic and music writer.

Life

Alfred Baresel was the son of the privy councilor Otto Baresel and his wife Charlotte. From 1911 to 1915 he attended the university and the conservatory in his hometown of Leipzig. He studied piano with Robert Teichmüller , musicology with Hugo Riemann and Arnold Schering and music history with Arthur Seidl . From 1920 to 1939 he was a lecturer himself. From 1921 to 1933 he wrote for the Neue Leipziger Zeitung, after which he was banned from publishing.

In his innovative texts he already took into account the work of Ernst Krenek , Eric Satie , Igor Stravinsky and Kurt Weill . He was one of the founders of the German jazz movement. Baresel was the first German music writer to deal with jazz in a book . In 1926 Baresel's first German jazz book was published, which had a circulation of 10,000 in three years. In the Third Reich , the book came on the index and was shown in the exhibition " Degenerate Art ". Baresel himself was only allowed to teach minor subjects at the conservatory. In his first marriage with the pianist Hella Schmitz, he met his future wife Herta-Edda Doehn here, who led a dance band in the post-war years and then worked as a teacher at the Frankfurt youth music school.

From 1939 until the end of the Second World War , Baresel was a lieutenant colonel. He received an issue of the music magazine "Artist" to Russia by field mail. He was a long-time employee of this popular music magazine. After 1945 he resumed teaching at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich , which was then still called the “Handel Conservatory”. He led the jazz classes there. Between 1946 and 1954 he was music critic for the "Südostkurier" in Bad Reichenhall. In 1960 he joined the Frankfurter Neue Presse as the first music critic . However, Baresel could no longer build on his former celebrities.

Music fonts (selection)

  • Robert Teichmüller as a person and artist, 1922
  • Glosses on the topic of musical culture, 1922
  • The jazz book, JH Zimmermann, Leipzig 1926
  • The new jazz book. A practical handbook for musicians, composers, arrangers, dancers and friends of jazz music. With 40 music samples, JH Zimmermann, Leipzig 1929 (revision of the jazz book from 1926)
  • Saxophone School (revision of the saxophone school by Nikolaj Fedorow), JH Zimmermann, Leipzig 1926
  • 75 technical piano formulas, 1927
  • Jazz in the church
  • Biographies: Haydn, Verdi, 1930
  • School of Rhythm, 1931
  • School for tenor banjo by Alba, JH Zimmermann, Leipzig
  • School for Hawaiian Guitar, JH Zimmermann, Leipzig
  • Hymns of the Nations, Europe, for piano, Sikorski Verlag, Hamburg
  • Christmas carol album for piano, Sikorski Verlag, Hamburg
  • Jazz piano school (with Rio Gebhardt )
  • Robert Teichmüller and the Leipzig piano tradition, 1939
  • Romantic piano technique, 1939
  • The piano doctor, W. Zimmermann, Frankfurt am Main 1952
  • The piano trainer, W. Zimmermann, Frankfurt am Main
  • Methodical course in jazz improvisation for all keyboard and wind instruments, Hohner, Trossingen, 1952
  • The rhythm in jazz and dance music: a textbook and exercise book for musicians, basic research for jazz fans, Hohner, Trossingen, 1955
  • Jazz Accordion School, 1952
  • Musical novellas, 1952
  • Jazz harmony theory, Hohner, Trossingen, 1953
  • Biographies: Richard Strauss (1953), G. Puccini (1954), WA Mozart (1956)
  • Jazz Trumpet School
  • The saxophonist in the modern dance orchestra
  • Jazz in crisis - Jazz in transition, Hohner, Trossingen 1959
  • The secret of good piano sound
  • How do I arrange for my combo, 1964
  • March album for piano, W. Zimmermann, Frankfurt am Main
  • Theme with jazz variations for piano
  • Bugle School
  • Das Harmoniumspiel, 1967 (revision of the school work by Michaelis Pache), W. Zimmermann, Frankfurt am Main

literature

  • Wolfgang Grau: Alfred Baresel - a nestor and integrator of jazz. On his 90th birthday , in: Jazzforschung , Vol. 15, 1983, Graz, pp. 203–207.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society. With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Baresel, Alfred, p. 24 .
  2. ↑ E. Weissweiler: Eliminated! , Cologne 1999.
  3. ↑ Schaal on jazz euphoria in Germany in the 1920s
  4. ↑ "artist" 6/1983.

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personal data
SURNAME Baresel, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ALBA (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music critic and music writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig , Kingdom of Saxony , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1984
Place of death Frankfurt am Main , Hessen , Federal Republic of Germany