Benno Bardi

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Benno Bardi (born Benno Poswiansky April 16, 1890 in Königsberg in Prussia ; died October 10, 1973 in London ) was a German-British composer and conductor. From around 1922 he called himself Bardi.

Life

Benno Poswiansky attended the Königliche Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Königsberg and from 1906 the Königstädtische Gymnasium in Berlin. He then studied musicology, literary history and philosophy in Königsberg and Berlin. At the Stern Conservatory he had piano lessons with Gustav Pohl and he took composition lessons with Engelbert Humperdinck . He worked as an accompanist at the Kroll Opera active, then in Potsdam and Emil von Reznicek at the Theater of the West , continue as Solorepititor at the Staatsoper Berlin under Richard Strauss .

During the First World War, Poswiansky was a soldier from 1914 to 1916 and then conscripted into war relief. During this time he was also employed as a military bandmaster. He worked as Kapellmeister and choir director in Saarbrücken and Zittau .

Bardi took a master's degree in Königsberg in 1919. Back in Berlin he founded the “Greater Berlin Concert Association”. He wrote stage music with Max Reinhardt for the Deutsches Theater Berlin . He made study trips to Egypt and Sudan for Wilhelm Doegen's sound department for speech and music recordings at the Prussian State Library . In 1924 he received his doctorate in Königsberg with the dissertation "Flotow as an opera composer".

Bardi was involved in various ways in Berlin's music business. From 1927 he was editor of the Berliner Konzertzeitung and wrote feature articles and reviews for Berlin daily newspapers of the Ullstein publishing house . In 1925 Bardi arranged the opera Fatme after Friedrich von Flotow for the Theater des Westens, in 1927 the opera Bimala after Jacques Fromental Halévy for the Magdeburg City Theater and in 1929 the cheerful opera The Great Kapellmeister for the Komische Oper Berlin . In 1927 Bardi stayed as a private scholar in Florence and then until 1931 as a musicologist in Paris . In 1928 he conducted for the Berliner Funkstunde .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Bardi was the victim of an SA attack in July 1933 at a Masonic meeting in the Hamburg Grand Lodge . He then fled to Cairo and worked there in a film studio. When his passport was withdrawn by the German embassy, ​​he fled to Jerusalem in 1939 . After the war he went to London via Italy . There, too, he was struggling to earn a living as a freelance lecturer at the City Council Literature Institute in London, an activity which he was then given notice due to old age. The processing of his application for reparation submitted to the Federal Republic of Germany dragged on for years.

Bardi's first marriage was to the painter Grete Hirsch, the second to Susan Gluck and the third to the bookseller Lily Faith.

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  1. ↑ Bardi, Grete . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 111 . (born 1890)
personal data
SURNAME Bardi, Benno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poswiansky, Benno (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg in Prussia
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1973
Place of death London