Arnold Pauli

Arnold Pauli (born December 15, 1900 in Basel , † June 26, 1977 in Zurich ) was a Swiss singer ( bass baritone ), choir director and composer .

Life

Pauli grew up in Basel as the son of an SBB train driver. He received his first piano lessons at the age of nine from Huber's student Max Brefin, and graduated from high school in 1919. Pauli then entered the Basel Conservatory  , where he received the teaching diploma for singing and conducting (with Hermann Suter ) in 1922 and the soloist diploma in 1925. Further studies took him to Vienna for five years , where he studied at the State Academy for Music with Prof. Minna Singer-Burian and worked in the Wiener Schubertbund under Viktor Keldorfer . A master class with Felix Weingartner rounded off his musical training in 1935.

In 1930 Pauli returned to Basel and took over a stint for singing lessons in the upper schools in the city, from 1932 he worked in Riehen from then on . Those years were his most active as a singer, a. a. as a song partner of the pianist Eduard Henneberger or as a singer in large bass parts in oratorios from Baroque to Romanticism. Also in 1930 Pauli took over the leadership of the Birsfelden men's choir , as well as the Basel railway workers' men's choir from his father; as a result, other local male choirs ( Wyhlen , Breite-Concordia , Zunft zu Hausgeossen ) and the teachers choir Baselland, which he led until 1969, were added. As a composer, Pauli created simple works for school use (e.g. the Bettinger Festival in 1963) and for his male choirs, often to texts by his friend, the Basel-based poet Eduard Wirz . He was a long-time member of the Northwestern Switzerland Choir Conductors Association and belonged to the Schwizerhüsli Basel student association  .

Pauli died in the summer of 1977 in the Zurich Cantonal Hospital of the consequences of an internal bleeding; the day before he had collapsed at the piano during a competition lecture at the Schwyzerisches Gesangfest in Pfäffikon .

literature

• Armand Hiebner : Arnold Pauli at the age of seventy. In: Basler Nachrichten. December 14, 1970, p. 3.
• Armand Hiebner: Arnold Pauli in memory. In: Basler Volksblatt. , June 29, 1977
• Gustav Adolf Wanner : Arnold Pauli in memory. In: Basler Zeitung . June 29, 1977, p. 25.
• Felix Brodtbeck : Farewell to Arnold Pauli. Funeral speech on the occasion of the abdication, July 1977.

Web links

• Arnold Pauli estate (1900–1977), In: Basel University Library
• Paul Schaller : Memory of Arnold Pauli , in: Yearbook z'Rieche 1978.