Andre Asriel
Andre Asriel (born February 22, 1922 in Vienna ; † May 28, 2019 in Berlin ) was an Austro-German composer .
Life
Asriel first attended the Academic Gymnasium and then the Bundesgymnasium IX ( Wasagymnasium ) in Vienna , where the later Oscar winner and composer Ernest Gold was his classmate. Here he pursued musical studies at the same time and studied piano with Grete Hinterhofer and theory with Richard Stöhr at the State Music Academy in Vienna from 1936 to 1938 . He was extraordinarily talented and an excellent pianist from a young age.
After Austria was annexed to the National Socialist German Reich , his mother made sure that her 16-year-old son Andre was able to emigrate to England on a children's transport at the end of 1938 as a racially persecuted person . She was no longer able to escape to escape. When the war began in September 1939, all connections to the old homeland and to the family were severed. Asriel was interested in music even when he was abroad, but he did not know how to start and finance a suitable degree. Through an encounter with the later poet Erich Fried - also a former student of the Wasagymnasium - he found contact with the exile organization Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ), which also financed studies. Asriel took over the direction of the London FDJ Choir and made friends among its members. As a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM) he continued his studies from 1941 with Franz Osborn (piano) and Ernst Hermann Meyer (composition).
His gratitude to the FDJ led Asriel to a destroyed Germany in 1946 to help build socialism there. In 1946 he continued his music studies, which had been interrupted in exile, at the Hochschule für Musik in the western part of Berlin with Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling and Hermann Wunsch (composition) and Richard Rössler (piano). The piano state examination followed in 1948. From 1950 to 1951 Andre Asriel was a master student at the German Academy of the Arts ( East Berlin ) with Hanns Eisler . From 1950 to 1967 he was a lecturer and then professor for composition at the "Hanns Eisler" Academy of Music in Berlin ( GDR ). In 1980 he retired .
Asriel was best known for his political songs. But film music was also an important field of activity for him. He wrote the music for more than 30 films. He also composed chansons, ballads, chamber, vocal and instrumental music. Many of his compositions are influenced by jazz music.
He had been married to Germanist Gertrud (Katja) Asriel since 1951 and had two children.
In 1951 Asriel was awarded the GDR National Prize, the FDGB Art Prize in 1970, and the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1974 and 1982 .
Works
Instrumental compositions
Music for orchestra (1963–1964)
- Four inventions , for trumpet, trombone and orchestra
- Folksong suite , for orchestra
- Metamorphoses , for orchestra
Chamber music (1964–1972)
- 20 variations on “Ich hab mein Feinsliebchen” , for flute and guitar
- Shakespeare Suite , for two trumpets and two trombones, 1993, New Music
- Katzenwalzer , for violin and piano
Music for keyboard instruments (1962–1988)
- Sonata , for piano
- Fugue in C , for piano
- Toccata and fugue , for organ
Music for concert guitar (1962–1988)
- Baroque in Blue , for solo guitar
- A little jazz music , for solo guitar
- Prelude and Toccata , for 2 guitars
- Etudes and performance pieces , for guitar solo
- Four pieces , for 2 guitars
- Suite in E , for 2 guitars
- Cinque pezzi obbligati , for solo guitar
Choral music (1951–1977)
- Mahle, Mühle mahle ( Walter Dehmel ), for mixed choir
- Suite in Scat , for mixed choir and rhythm section
- Six fables after Aesop , for mixed choir
- Three choirs based on Latin texts , for mixed choir
- Three commentaries on “Moro lasso” by Carlo Gesualdo , for chamber choir and six instruments
- Three serious chants ( Bertolt Brecht ), for male choir
Mass songs (1941–1983)
- We love life (Erich Fried)
- Much blood was given ( KuBa )
- Friendship, Unity, Peace (Herbert Keller)
- Long live the bread (KuBa)
- The young guard laughs bravely (KuBa)
- Red October (KuBa)
- Battle of Galgenberg ( Manfred Bieler )
- Sailors from Kiel (Bodo Krautz)
- Song of the Republic ( Heinz Kahlau )
- The red flag (Helmut Kontauts)
Songs and Chansons (1948–1975)
- Song of St.Nimmerleinstag (Bertolt Brecht)
- Against the war (KuBa)
- Hungarian Largo (Jens Gerlach)
- Song of the Rush (Heinz Kahlau)
- Nuclear rocket song (Jens Gerlach)
- Mud House Blues (Jens Gerlach)
- Song of Luck (Bertolt Brecht)
- Limericks ( Peter Hacks )
- Argumentation (Jens Gerlach)
- Ducat Song (Jens Gerlach)
- Loyalty ( Heinrich Heine )
- Evening in a big city ( Louis Fürnberg )
- On the sunny side ( Manfred Krug )
- Shimmy in green (Peter Hacks)
- At the miners' ball (Peter Hacks)
- The olives flourish (Peter Hacks)
- October ( Alfred Kerr )
- September ( Erich Kästner )
- The Monarch (Peter Hacks)
- The Easter Chicken (Heinz Kahlau)
- Moon Song (Peter Hacks)
- Song of the Cranes ( Kurt Demmler )
- Karl I. (Heinrich Heine)
- This is how it has to be ( Volker Braun after Béranger )
Piano songs (1940–1971)
- Childe Harold (Heinrich Heine)
- Three Chants ( Langston Hughes )
- Two sayings (Bertolt Brecht)
- Death ( Matthias Claudius )
- Stop at your boat (Wolfram Dietrich)
- Six songs (Bertolt Brecht)
- Eight love songs (Jens Gerlach)
- Schön Dorindgen (Peter Hacks)
- Fool's Song ( William Shakespeare )
- Who is Sylvia (William Shakespeare)
- Tree-like songs (Helmut Stöhr)
- numerous folk song arrangements
- underneath
- Yiddish folk songs - children's songs and lullabies , Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin
- Yiddish folk songs - vocational and class songs , Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin
- Yiddish folk songs - love songs , New Music Publishing House, Berlin
Film music and theater music (1955–1986)
Film music
Feature films
- Der Lotterieschwede (1958), Joachim Kunert (after Martin Andersen Nexø )
- Marriage case Lorenz (1959), Joachim Kunert
- Where the train doesn't last long ... (1960), Joachim Hasler
- Seilergasse 8 (1960), Joachim Kunert
- The Last Night (1961), Joachim Kunert (TV movie)
- On the sunny side (1961), Ralf Kirsten
- The Unknown Size (1961), Baumert (TV movie)
- The Soldier's Oath Pooley (1961), (TV Movie)
- The chin hook (1962), Heinz Thiel
- Secret archive on the Elbe (1962), Kurt Jung-Alsen
- The thief of San Marengo (1963), Günter Reisch
- Follow me, Canailles! (1964), Ralf Kirsten
- The lost angel (1966/1971), Ralf Kirsten
- Mrs. Venus and her devil (1967), Ralf Kirsten
- Network (1970), Ralf Kirsten
- Two letters to Pospischiel (1970), Ralf Kirsten (TV movie)
- The Elixirs of the Devil (1973), Ralf Kirsten (after ETA Hoffmann )
- Under the pear tree (1973), Ralf Kirsten (after Theodor Fontane )
- A pyramid for me (1975), Ralf Kirsten
Short films
- Living Iron (1955), Berthold Beissert (popular science film)
- Märkische Novelle (1957), Max Jaap (documentary film)
- The carnival costume (1958), Kurt Weiler (cartoon)
- Martin Andersen Nexö (1959), Joachim Kunert (documentary)
- The bank robbery (1961), Hans Joachim Hildebrandt (magazine)
- The Vixen and the Beaver (1961), Ralf Kirsten (magazine)
- Modern graphics (1961), (popular science film)
- Village children (1962), Heinz Müller (documentary film)
- Pasaremos (1962), (popular science film)
- Hare and Hedgehog (1963), Horst Seemann (magazine)
- Track construction (1963), (popular science film)
- Hüben und drüben (1964), Walter Heynowski (documentary)
- Gender (1964), (popular science film)
- OK (1965), Walter Heynowski (documentary)
- Borinage (1983/84), Joris Ivens / Henri Storck Documentary (1933, silent , EPI, Club de l'Ecran, Brussels )
- Drifters (1984/86), John Grierson Documentary (1929, silent, EMBFilm Unit, GB )
Theatrical music
- 1949: Friedrich Wolf : Tai Yang awakens - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff ( Deutsches Theater Berlin )
- 1962: Peter Hacks (after Aristophanes ): The Peace - Director: Benno Besson (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1963: Rolf Schneider : Richard Waverly Trial - Director: Wolf-Dieter Panse (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1963: Peter Hacks (after John Gay ): Polly or Die Bataille on Bluewater Creek
- 1980: Michail Schatrow : Blue horses on red grass - Director: Christoph Schroth ( Berliner Ensemble )
- 1981: Carl Sternheim : The School of Uznach - Director: Gertrud-Elisabeth Zillmer ( Volksbühne Berlin - Sternfoyer)
- Faust I ( Johann Wolfgang von Goethe )
Radio play music
- 1950: Herbert Horn : Our Bridge - Director: Rudolph Pallas ( Berliner Rundfunk )
- 1950: Anna Seghers : The Trial of Joan of Arc at Rouen 1431 - Director: Herwart Grosse ( Deutschlandsender )
- 1964: Ernst Röhl (after Johann Peter Hebel ): Zundelfrieder's Adventure - Director: Maritta Hübner (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
Fonts
- Jazz - Analyzes and Aspects , VEB Lied der Zeit, Berlin 1966 (4th, revised and expanded edition. 1985)
literature
- Rainer Bratfisch: Asriel, André . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Asriel, Prof. André. In: Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser: Contemporary composers in the German Association of Composers. A manual. 4th edition, German Association of Composers, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-555-61410-X , p. 24.
Web links
- Works by and about Andre Asriel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Andre Asriel .
- Biography in the composer's lexicon .
- Andrea Harrandt: Asriel, Andre. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
- Desire and Reality Portrait in Neues Deutschland from January 23, 2012.
- Andre Asriel in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians from the Nazi Era (LexM), as of November 1, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Amzoll : For the better: To the death of Andre Asriel. In: young world . May 31, 2019 (obituary).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Asriel, Andre |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1922 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 2019 |
Place of death | Berlin |