Arnold Ebel

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Arnold Ebel (born August 15, 1883 in Heide (Holstein) ; † March 4, 1963 in Berlin ) was a German music teacher and composer .

Life

At first he was a teacher and organist in Tinglev Sogn (formerly Northern Schleswig) and, on the recommendation of Rochus von Liliencron, attended the Royal University of Music in 1906 and studied musicology at the Berlin University . From 1909 to 1911 he was a master student of Max Bruch . Then choir director and organist of the Order of St. John in Berlin. In 1911 he married Minna Wilde , a concert and oratorio singer. In 1913 their daughter Maren was born, the couple's only child.

From 1919 he was choir director and organist at the Berlin Eliaskirche in the Prenzlauer Berg district , in 1920 he became chairman of the Berlin Tonkünstler Association and the unified music education associations. In 1921 he succeeded Arthur Egigi at the Paul Gerhard Church in Berlin-Schöneberg. In 1922 he became conductor of the Scheinpflug choir in Berlin. In addition, from 1930 to 1945 he was a teacher at the Academy for Church and School Music, where he worked as a professor for composition and music theory from 1939.

During the time of National Socialism, he adapted to the regime and set various National Socialist songs to music, which, however, initially did not meet with approval. Music critics accused him of being an epigonal Brahms successor, and the National Socialist cultural community defamed him as a cultural Bolshevik in 1935 . Nevertheless, Ebel became a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 and registered under the party number 5,846,831. In the same year, the up-and-coming Aachen General Music Director Herbert von Karajan conducted Ebel's Symphonic Overture .

In 1938 Ebel became music advisor and music train leader in the National Socialist Motor Vehicle Corps (NSKK) and wrote various marches and war songs for it. On December 6, 1944, Ebel volunteered for the Volkssturm .

After the end of the Second World War , Ebel initially worked as a freelance composer in Berlin. He re-founded the Presidium of the Association of Regional Associations of German Sound Artists and Music Teachers (VDTM) and became its chairman. From 1953 to 1955 he was a board member of the German Music Council .

He worked on specialist magazines such as the “Allgemeine Musikzeitung”. In 1951 he founded the working group of Berlin school music educators.

Ebel continued to emerge as a composer, setting poems by Friedrich Hebbel , Klaus Groth , Theodor Storm and others to music.

In addition to being an honorary citizen of the city of Heide (since September 20, 1953), Ebel received the Mendelssohn plaque in 1959 , which was awarded to him during the Mendelssohn commemoration week in Leipzig .

Works (selection)

  • Private lessons in music. the decree of the Prussian Minister for Science, Art and Education of May 2, 1925 . At the instigation of the "Reichsverband Deutscher Tonkünstler und Musiklehrer eV" / published and provided with an introduction by Arnold Ebel. Publishing house of the "Deutsche Tonkünstler-Zeitung", Berlin 1925
  • The minstrel . A songbook for the German school and for the home. Edited by Arnold Ebel and Wilhelm Witzke. Diesterweg, Frankfurt a. M. 1928
  • Berlin Music Yearbook . Edited by Arnold Ebel. Verlaganstalt Deutscher Tonkünstler, Berlin and Leipzig 1926 ff.

Musical works (selection)

  • Symphonic Overture (Apassionata). For large orchestra op.13. Simrock, Leipzig 1914
  • The consecration of the night. Cantata for baritone (or alto) solo, mixed choir and large orchestra op.19. Siegel, Leipzig 1913
  • Requiem (after Gebbel) for soprano solo, mixed choir and large orchestra op.17.Siegel, Leipzig 1912
  • Ten songs from the Quickborn by Klaus Groth, for voice and piano op. 20. N. Simrock, Hamburg - London
  • Six small lyrical pieces in an easy variety for piano for 2 hands op.24. Rahter, Leipzig 1924
  • Sonata for violin and piano op.37. Berlin: Verlaganstalt Deutscher Tonkünstler 1928 (collection of new masters 30)
  • Sonata for violin and piano op.37. Verlaganstalt Deutscher Tonkünstler, Berlin 1928
  • Sinfonietta giocosa. For large orchestra op. 39. Ries & Erler, Berlin 1929/1989
  • Lieder der Zeit op.47.Wilke, Berlin 1941
  • Prelude to a festival. Cheerful overture. Original composition for air force music. Wilke, Berlin 1942
  • Little sonata for piano for two hands. Edition Peters, Leipzig 1961

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 1.281.
  2. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 5,874, circular from the Office for Art Care of the NSKG of July 26, 1935, also p. 1282
  3. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 1.282.