Alfred Uhl

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Alfred Uhl (born June 5, 1909 in Vienna ; † June 8, 1992 ibid.) Was an Austrian composer and conductor .

Life

Uhl, the son of a post office clerk, studied composition as a pupil of Franz Schmidt at the Vienna Music Academy (today: University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna ) and completed his studies with a doctorate to become a Dr. phil. from. After the " Anschluss of Austria " in 1938 he became Gauobmann of Section I of the Folk Music Department of the Reich Chamber of Music . In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , but released in 1941 after being seriously wounded. In 1943 he received the Schubert Prize of the City of Vienna at the suggestion of the Reich Governor and Gauleiter Baldur von Schirach , was appointed as a teacher at the Vienna University of Music and was appointed professor. Already at this time he emerged as a composer with works such as a Musik der Arbeit (1939), a symphonic march (1942) and in 1944 with a fanfare for the youth and a concert symphony for solo clarinet and orchestra, which was premiered under Clemens Krauss .

After the end of the war, Uhl continued to teach composition and music theory at the Vienna University of Music until 1979. In 1964 he was appointed associate professor and in 1966 full professor. His students included u. a. Friedrich Cerha , Georg Ebert , Karlheinz Essl , Heinz Karl Gruber , Augustin Kubizek , Anestis Logothetis , Gerhard Lampersberg , Johann Sengstschmid . From 1949 to 1954 he was President of the Austrian Society for Contemporary Music, which he co-founded .

With the premiere of the oratorio Gilgamesh in 1957 he achieved his breakthrough as a composer. In addition, he did a great job as a music teacher and wrote a clarinet exercise that is still fundamental to this day .

Alfred Uhl rests in an honorary grave in the Grinzinger Friedhof (group 8, row 2, number 8) in Vienna.

Music genre

Alfred Uhl's grave

Initially in the tradition of the Viennese late romanticism, his musical tendency soon developed. Moderately modern, Uhl remained connected to tonality throughout his life and tried to combine a contemporary, yet catchy melody with differentiated rhythms. His works reveal an unmistakable style that likes to set humorous accents.

Memberships and honors

Catalog raisonné

(Selected. Works from which Alfred Uhl later distanced himself for artistic reasons were not included)

Vocal music

Stage works

  • 1949 Rondeau (ballet). Dance variations based on themes by Molière
  • 1959 cat music. Cheerful ballet opera for young and old in 3 pictures (Libretto: Karl Friedrich Alys)
  • 1962/65 The mysterious Herr X. Opera in 1 prelude and 3 acts (Libretto: Theo Lingen)

Works for choir and orchestra

  • 1926/27 Mass in B minor for solos, choir, orchestra and organ
  • 1954/56 (revised 1967/68) Gilgamesh . Oratory music drama for solos, speaker, mixed choir, boys' choir, large orchestra and organ
  • 1960 (1963 rev.) "He who is lonely has it good". Cheerful cantata for solos, mixed choir and orchestra based on poems by Wilhelm Busch, Christian Morgenstern and Joachim Ringelnatz

Works for choir and piano

  • 1937 A fun game for children (Otto Brandt). Radio play for children's choir and piano
  • 1963 “Die Zeit” (Morgenstern) for male choir and piano
  • 1990 Animal seriousness (Busch, Brandt, Heinrich Gattermeyer, Morgenstern, Ringelnatz). A series of cheerful animal songs for solos, choir double quartet and piano

Works for choir a cappella

  • 1960 3 bagatelles for gem. A cappella choir
  • 1970 “Boomerang” (Ringelnatz) for male choir a cappella
  • 1971 "Tierischer Ernst" (Gattermeyer) for gem. A cappella choir

Works for voice and instruments

  • 1922 Transience (JM Wunderlich). Song for alto (mezzo-soprano) and piano
  • 1924 Marienlied (Wunderlich) for soprano and chamber ensemble
  • 1924 evening landscape (Eichendorff). Song for soprano and piano
  • 1924 Midday Rest (Joseph von Eichendorff). Song for soprano and piano
  • 1924 Die Sperlinge (Eichendorff). Song for mezzo-soprano and piano
  • 1925 Please (Nikolaus Lenau). Song for singing. and piano
  • 1925 Fresh ride (Eichendorff). Song for singing. and piano
  • 1925 equality (Eichendorff). Song for soprano and piano
  • 1925 signpost (Eichendorff). Song for soprano and piano
  • 1926 In the woods (Eichendorff). Song for mezzo-soprano and piano
  • 1926 Favorite Cookies (from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”). Song for singing. and piano
  • 1927 farewell (Eichendorff). Song for mezzo-soprano and piano
  • 1928 repentance. Song for baritone and piano
  • 1929 Herbstweh (Eichendorff). Song for mezzo-soprano and piano
  • 1935 The snuff box (Ringelnatz). Song with piano accompaniment
  • 1935 Longing to return ( Herbert Strutz ). Song with piano accompaniment
  • 1937 Between eight and ten (N. Böse). Music for a comedy for voice and piano
  • 1946 “Mir ist ein schön's braun Maidelein” for voice and string trio
  • 1952 Couplet of twelve-tone music. Humorous couplet for 2 tenors with Schrammel quartet accompaniment
  • 1952 “I walk my path so calmly” (Eichendorff). Song for voice and piano

Instrumental music

Works for orchestra

  • 1929 Prelude for large orchestra
  • 1936 Little game music for trumpet choir
  • 1938 hymn of praise for work. Symphonic suite for large orchestra
  • 1939 “Viennese Waltz” for large orchestra
  • 1939 “Music of Work” for small orchestra
  • 1942 Fanfare (F major) for brass
  • 1937 Symphonic March for Brass
  • 1944 7 miniatures for chamber orchestra
  • 1944/45 4 caprices by musicians, traveling singers, jugglers and comedians. for orchestra
  • 1945 sonata for orchestra
  • 1947 Introduction and variations on a melody from the 16th century for string orchestra ("There is a dark cloud in ...")
  • 1953 Serenade for 12 wind instruments and double bass
  • 1966 “Concerto a ballo” for orchestra
  • 1977 Sinfonietta for large orchestra
  • 1978/79 festival fanfare for large trumpet choir (formerly: "Akademie-Festfanfare")
  • 1980 3 sketches for orchestra
  • 1984 Concerto for chamber orchestra

Works for solo instrument and orchestra

  • 1943 Concertante Symphony for solo clarinet and orchestra (1987 version for bassoon and orchestra)
  • 1949 (1986 rev.) Concertino for solo violin and 22 wind instruments.
  • 1963 Small concert for violin and orchestra

Chamber music

  • 1923 Andante for violin, violoncello and organ (1923 version for violin, violoncello and piano)
  • 1923 Andante for violoncello and organ
  • 1923 “Mood picture” for viola and piano
  • 1923 string trio
  • 1924 Sarabande for violin and piano
  • 1924 “Dedication” for violoncello and piano
  • 1924 10 divertimenti for viola and violoncello
  • 1926 “Norwegian Coastal Song” for violin, violoncello and piano / organ
  • 1926/30 Small suite for violin, viola and guitar
  • 1927 Piano quartet in B minor [only the 1st movement available]
  • 1928 (1981 rev.) Trio for violin, viola and guitar
  • 1929 “Wiener Weisen” for violin, viola and guitar
  • 1930 septet for 3 violins, 2 violas, violoncello and clarinet
  • 1931 Sonatina for violoncello and piano
  • 1932 “Little Burlesque” for string quartet
  • 1935 Rondo for 2 solo violins
  • 1937 (1988 rev.) Small concerto for clarinet, viola and piano (further versions: 1972 for violin, cello and piano, dedicated to the Ebert Trio Vienna ; 1988 for clarinet, alto saxophone and piano; 1991/92 concerto for bassoon and string quartet)
  • 1938 Play music for mandolin and string trio
  • 1939 “5 happy wise men for Wr. Christmas market “for 3 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons and 2 horns
  • 1942 Divertimento for 3 clarinets and bass clarinet
  • 1944 “A fun music” for 8 wind instruments.
  • 1945/46 (1969 rev.) 1st string quartet
  • 1953 Improvisation on old German folk tunes for viola d'amore, basset horn and double-choir lute
  • 1961 "Jubiläumsquartett" for 2 violins, viola and violoncello
  • 1963/64 4 dance pieces for string quartet, clarinet, bassoon and horn
  • 1965 “Humoreske” for wind quintet
  • 1969 “An entertaining game music” for 3 violins and violoncello
  • 1970 “All sorts of game music” for game music groups
  • 1982 "Commedia musicale" for clarinet, viola and piano (1987 version for 2 pianos)
  • 1982 3 pieces for flute and guitar
  • 1985/86 3 dance pieces for wind octet
  • 1986 "Scherzo capriccioso" for bassoon and piano (1986 version for bass clarinet and piano; 1989 version for wind octet)

Works for solo instruments

  • 1922 “Wiener Weisen” for piano
  • 1925 music for a comedy for piano
  • 1927 2nd dance suite for piano
  • 1937/39 10 small pieces for guitar
  • 1938 48 studies for clarinet
  • 1937 sonata for guitar
  • 1969 New version: "Sonata classica" for guitar
  • 1970 15 studies for bassoon
  • 1971 20 etudes for viola (intermediate to difficult)
  • 1972 30 etudes for viola (easy to intermediate)
  • 1974 4 small pieces for piano
  • 1974 Small suite for viola solo (from "20 Etudes for Viola")
  • 1979 Drosser Musette Waltz for piano

Film music

  • 1932 Controlled time (Swiss watch industry)
  • 1932 The way to the south
  • 1933 Abyssinia flight (Mittelholzer)
  • 1933 Alpine flight (Mittelholzer)
  • 1933 Appenzellerland
  • 1933 In the service of everyday life
  • 1933 man in the snow
  • 1933 Toggenburg
  • 1935 Seldwyla
  • 1935 Symphony of the Water
  • 1935 Ticino mountain farmers
  • 1935 Ticino lakes
  • 1936 women's distress - women's happiness
  • 1936 This is how China lives
  • 1939 From armories of the German past
  • Dismissed without notice in 1939
  • 1950 The stolen year
  • 1951 dizziness in 3/4 time
  • 1952 Spring Voices
  • 1953 The spendthrift
  • 1957 High places of the spirit
  • 1957 Vienna, you city of my dreams

literature

  • A. Witeschnik: Alfred Uhl. In: Composers of Our Time. Vol. 8. Lafite, Vienna 1966, ISBN 3-85151-045-3 , p. 72.
  • G. Brosche (Red.): Musical documentation Alfred Uhl. Exhibition catalog. Austrian National Library, Vienna 1995.
  • J. Libbert: The lonely artist. On the death of the composer Alfred Uhl. In: Zupfmusik-Magazin. 3/1992, p. 89.

Sound carrier

  • It's good for anyone who is lonely. With Gabriele Fontana, Jörg Dürmüller, Andreas Scheibner, WDR radio orchestra and choir Cologne, conductor: Anton Marik . CD (Capriccio 60 120)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945. CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 7284–7285.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 624.
  3. ↑ outstanding artist award - music ( Memento from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed October 28, 2012
  4. ↑ a b R. Flotzinger, G. Gruber (Hrsg.): Musikgeschichte Österreichs. Volume 2. Verlag Styria, 1979, p. 498.
  5. ↑ R. Flotzinger, G. Gruber (Ed.): Music history of Austria. 1979, pp. 505-506.
  6. ^ Inscription Deutschordenshof, passage: Alfred Uhl 1970 (accessed June 7, 2014)
  7. ↑ Complete catalog of works
personal data
SURNAME Uhl, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1992
Place of death Vienna