Anton Schoendlinger

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Anton Schoendlinger (born November 12, 1919 in Bačko Novo Selo (German Neudorf ad Donau ), Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ; † August 16, 1983 in Giengen an der Brenz ) was a Danube Swabian composer.

Life

Between 1946 and 1950 Schoendlinger studied composition at the State University of Music in Leipzig and was a master student of Hanns Eisler at the German Academy of the Arts until 1952 . After graduating, he worked for a year as a music editor for the State Committee for Broadcasting . From 1953 to 1954 he worked as a publishing editor for Edition Peters in Leipzig. From 1955 he worked as a freelance composer in East Berlin. In 1956 he married Karin Uhlendorf from Berlin. Between 1965 and 1973 he worked as a radio music lecturer at the German Democratic Broadcasting Corporation and between 1969 and 1973 he also held an honorary teaching position at the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin . In 1973 he had to leave the civil service after political discrimination by the GDR regime and so he was again a freelance composer until 1983. His wife Karin died in 1982. In March 1983 he left for Herbrechtingen .

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Schoendlinger's musical oeuvre includes around 400 works, half of which are vocal and instrumental . In addition to chamber, organ and choral music, the piano song, the symphony, the concert, the etude and the solo piece are also represented. In his compositions he never completely abandons the tonal system and his thematic invention is based on modal structures, which are increasingly enriched with chromatics in his subsequent works . The predominantly polyphonic movements show that the primacy of the linear (i.e. melody) over the tonal (harmony) is an essential element of his compositional conception.

Schoendlinger's music can be interpreted as a symbiosis of Southeast European musical diversity and elements of Central European styles from different musical epochs. Schoendlinger's musical feeling was shaped by two different cultural influences: On the one hand, it was the multicultural musical diversity in Southeastern Europe and, on the other hand, the elements of Central European styles of different musical epochs absorbed during his Leipzig studies and as a master student in Berlin.

The main characteristics of his musical style are chromatic enrichment on modal melodies, Hindemith- style, south-eastern European-influenced rhythms with frequently occurring fourths and fifths as well as dominant counterpoint. Schoendlinger's music can be described as “moderately modern” and downright “neoclassical” with a concise folkloristic touch. He created his own style of music in the area of ​​tension between the required limitations in the GDR on the one hand and the progressive international musical development on the other. Due to its stylistic characteristics, his music is related to Béla Bartók , Hindemith and Johann Nepomuk David in the musical spectrum of the 20th century , but is nevertheless distinct in its combined expression, which fluctuates between classical and romantic forms and Southeast European folklore.

literature

  • Richard Witsch: Anton Schoendlinger - A Danube Swabian composer in Germany , Gehann-Musik-Verlag, Kludenbach 2003, ISBN 3927293253 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schoendlinger, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schondlinger, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danube Swabian composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Bačko Novo Selo , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1983
Place of death Giengen on the Brenz