Anton Beer-Walbrunn
Anton Beer-Walbrunn (born June 29, 1864 in Kohlberg ; † March 22, 1929 in Munich ) was a German composer.
Life
Anton Beer was born as the fourth of five children of the teacher, cantor, sacristan and parish clerk Anton Beer and his wife Margarethe, née Walbrunn, in the Upper Palatinate market town of Kohlberg. His birthplace was demolished in 2019. In 1877 he attended the Preparatory School in Regensburg , took the entrance exam to the Eichstätt teachers' seminar in 1880 , but then switched to the newly founded seminar in Amberg - today the Max-Reger-Gymnasium Amberg - and was one of the first to graduate in 1882. In 1886 he passed the final exam as the best of 57 candidates.
His teacher, Domkapellmeister Widmann in Eichstätt , stood up for him and enabled him to study in Munich from 1888 to 1891 with Joseph Rheinberger , Hans Bußmeyer and Ludwig Abel at the Academy of Music. In 1901 he was appointed to teach counterpoint , composition, harmony and piano at the same Royal Academy of Music in Munich (today: University of Music and Theater Munich ). In 1908 he was appointed royal professor. In 1904 he married the painter Ida Görtz , with whom he has since used the maiden name of his mother, who died young, as the double name Beer-Walbrunn. His students included Télémaque Lambrino , Fritz Büchtger , Alfred Einstein , Carl Orff and Wilhelm Furtwängler, as well as the musicologist and critic Eugen Schmitz .
His grave is in the Munich forest cemetery .
The Anton Beer-Walbrunn - Kunst- und Kulturverein Kohlberg (founded in June 2015, board member Martin Valeske) organizes “Beer-Walbrunn-Tage” in autumn, during which his music is performed again. He cooperates with the Kohlberg market , the city of Weiden and the Upper Palatinate district.
Works
A. Vocal music
Songs: There are about 60
- op. 12 based on texts by Ludwig Uhland and Adolf Friedrich von Schack
- op. 13 and a. after Nikolaus Lenau
- op. 24 after Nikolaus Lenau
- op. 27 songs for voice and piano
- op. 31 The Refugee , ballad for baritone and orchestra
- op. 34 Ten " Shakespeare Sonnets"
- op. 37 after Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
- op. 39 after Nikolaus Lenau and Ludwig Uhland
- op. 59 Sacred songs after Eichendorff
- op. 60 after Eichendorff
- op. 62a songbook for higher girls' schools
- op. 62b songbook for boys' middle schools
- op.62c Arrangements of Christmas carols for voice, piano, violin and violoncello
- op. 63 Seven songs for voice and piano
Choral music:
- op. 7 Der Luftgeister Gesang for mixed choir and orchestra
- op. 16 Mahomets song for soli, choir, orchestra and organ by Goethe (1895)
- op. 1, 35b, 48, 66, 69 for mixed choir
- op.35a, 53, 55, 68 for male choir
B. Stage works:
- op. 10 The Atonement , opera based on Theodor Körner , premiered 1894 Lübeck
- op. 18 Don Quixote , opera based on Miguel de Cervantes , premiered in Munich in 1908, under Felix Mottl
- op.41 Atonement , arrangement of the opera op.10 as a Volksoper in one act
- op. 43 incidental music for "Hamlet" (1909)
- op. 47 Arrangement of the opera “The three daughters of Cecrops” by NA Strungk
- op. 50 Das Ungeheuer , comedy after Anton Chekhov , premiered in 1914 Karlsruhe, court theater
- op. 54 Incidental music to Shakespeare's "Storm", 2 acts
- op. 64 The storm , symbolic fairy tale in 3 acts, incidental music
C. Instrumental music
Orchestral works:
- op. 2 concert overture
- op. 5 Symphony in F minor
- op. 9 Concert Allegro in F sharp minor for violin and orchestra
- op. 11 Symphonic Fantasy in D major "Artist's Life"
- op. 22 German Suite
- op. 36 Symphony in E major
- op. 38a orchestral arrangement of a canzone by Gabrieli
- op. 38b arrangement of a gavotte by Schlemüller for violoncello and orchestra
- op. 40 “Cloud Cuckoo Home”, three burlesques
- op. 52 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G major
- op. 61 comedy overture based on motifs from the opera "Das Ungeheuer"
Chamber music:
- op. 3 Little Fantasy in G minor for violin and piano
- op. 4 String Quartet No. 1 in C major
- op. 6 String Quartet No. 2 in C minor
- op.8 piano quartet in F major (premiere with Hans Pfitzner at the piano)
- op. 14 String Quartet No. 3 in G major
- op. 15 Sonata for violoncello and piano in G major
- op. 17 Sketch of a piano quintet in G minor
- Op. 19 String Quartet No. 4 in E minor
- op. 20 Ode for violoncello and piano in G major
- op. 25 Humoresque for string quartet and piano in G major
- op. 26 String Quartet No. 5 in D minor
- op. 30 Sonata for Violin and Piano in D minor
- op. 33 Arrangements of six sonatas for violin and harpsichord by Dall'Abaco
- op.70 Piano quintet in G minor, adaptation of the sketch op.17
Piano music:
- op. 21 Travel Pictures , cycle of six piano pieces
- op. 22 German suite for four hands for piano and orchestra
- op.23 Fugue in G minor, March and Waltz (four hands)
- op.42 Three pieces for piano solo as well as violin and piano, including:
- op. 42/2 Variations on "How beautifully the morning star shines"
- op. 56/57 piano pieces
- op. 58 Fantasy Sonata in F sharp minor for piano solo
- op. 67 Three pieces for piano solo
Organ music:
- op.28 Three Fugues for the Organ (1905)
- op. 29 Three small fugues for the organ
- op.32 Organ Sonata in G minor (1906)
- op. 45 Small pieces for the organ
Sound carrier
- Anton Beer-Walbrunn - Shakespeare sonnets and selected songs (world premiere recording 2016). Angelika Huber (soprano), Kilian Sprau (piano). Bayer Records BR 100 390
- South German organ music of the late Romantic period. Gerhard Weinberger (organ). TYXart / BR KLASSIK, TXA15052. Below is the organ fugue about a Gregorian chant op. 29/1. Order no. TXA15052
literature
- Gerhard J. Bellinger , Brigittegler-Bellinger : Schwabings Ainmillerstraße and its most important residents: A representative example of Munich's city history from 1888 to today . Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2003, ISBN 3-8330-0747-8 , pp. 435-448 .
- Eberhard Otto: The professor from Kohlberg. In: Heimat Ostbayern. No. 5/1989, p. 42ff.
- Alfons Ott: Beer-Walbrunn, Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 738 ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in the past and present: general encyclopedia of the music . With the collaboration of numerous music researchers from the In- u. Abroad. 17 volumes. dtv, Munich / Bärenreiter, Kassel a. a. 1989, ISBN 3-423-05913-3 (dtv) / ISBN 3-7618-5913-9 (Bärenreiter).
- Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in the past and present . 26 volumes in two parts. 2nd, revised edition. Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel u. a. 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1100-4 (Bärenreiter) / ISBN 3-476-41022-6 (Metzler).
Web links
- Literature by and about Anton Beer-Walbrunn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Anton Beer-Walbrunn in the German Digital Library
- Catalog of works on Klassika
- List of stage works by Anton Beer-Walbrunn based on the MGG at Operone
- Sheet music and audio files by Anton Beer-Walbrunn in the International Music Score Library Project
- Anton Beer-Walbrunn Art and Culture Association Kohlberg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walbrunn House: The demolition begins . Onetz.de, April 11, 2019, accessed April 15, 2019.
- ↑ Eberhard Otto: The professor from Kohlberg. In: Heimat Ostbayern. No. 5/1989.
- ^ Anton Beer-Walbrunn - Art and Culture Association Kohlberg
- ↑ Beer-Walbrunn-Tage 2015 program.
- ↑ Eberhard Otto: The professor from Kohlberg. In: Heimat Ostbayern. No. 5/1989.
- ↑ Music in the past and present. Kassel 1949. Volume 1, p. 1509.
- ↑ Ludwig Finscher: Music in the past and present . Kassel / Stuttgart 1994-2008
- ↑ beer-walbrunn-kohlberg.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beer-Walbrunn, Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beer, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kohlberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1929 |
| Place of death | Munich |