Bruno Heydrich

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Richard Bruno Heydrich, 1906

Richard Bruno Heydrich (born February 23, 1865 in Leuben , Saxony ; † August 24, 1938 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ), composer and singing teacher .

Life

Bruno Heydrich was the son of the impoverished cabinet maker Karl Julius Reinhold Heydrich. He died when Bruno Heydrich was 11 years old of tuberculosis and left behind three sons and three daughters between the ages of three and thirteen, so that Bruno Heydrich spent a childhood in meager circumstances. This did not change when his mother Ernestine Wilhelmine married the locksmith assistant Robert Süß in 1877. Bruno Heydrich and his younger brother Richard sang at fairs and thus increased the family income. After Bruno Heydrich had already belonged to the boys' music choir in Meißen, he studied double bass and composition at the conservatory in Dresden with the help of a scholarship and began as a double bass player in the Meiningen court orchestra and the Dresden court orchestra . After training in singing in Dresden, he made his debut as a tenor at the Sondershausen Court Theater in 1884 and became a member of the Weimar Court Theater in the same year . Between 1890 and 1893 he moved between Magdeburg , Stettin and Aachen . From 1893 he sang primarily the Wagner repertoire at the Cologne Opera . From 1897 to 1900 he was again employed at the Braunschweig Court Theater . In the following years he worked as a guest at various houses. Heydrich was a member of the Schlaraffia men's association .

In 1895 Heydrich sang the title hero in the world premiere of Hans Pfitzner's first opera Der arme Heinrich at the Mainz City Theater . When the young Pfitzner was on an agonizing and humiliating odyssey across Germany with the work he had just completed, Heydrich made himself available for the title role free of charge as soon as a stage was found for the performance.

He composed choirs, songs and orchestral works as well as operas in the style of Richard Wagner, which were performed in Cologne and Leipzig . However, these could not establish themselves in the repertoire. He left 83 compositions with opus numbers.

In 1899 he founded a conservatory in Halle an der Saale , which bore his name and was later named after Georg Friedrich Handel .

Heydrich's wife Elisabeth, née Krantz (1871–1946), came from a wealthy family and was the daughter of the head of the conservatory in Dresden, Eugen Krantz . They had three children ( Reinhard , Heinz and Maria).

The composer's eldest son, SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942), was named after the hero of the opera Amen, which premiered on September 22, 1895 in Cologne . Nine years before his son was born, he named the prologue of this opera Reinhard's Crimes . Heydrich's second opera was titled Chance. Musical comedy in one act .

Bruno Heydrich countered rumors that he was of Jewish origin in 1916 with a successful defamation suit because he feared that in the political climate of the Wilhelmine era, which was marked by anti - Semitism , they could have a "detrimental effect on business". The background to the lawsuit was the assertion of Hugo Riemann's Musik-Lexikon , in the 1916 edition of which it was stated that Heydrich was "actually sweet". Recent genealogical research has not been able to confirm Heydrich's Jewish descent.

Bruno Heydrich died in Halle on August 24, 1938 .

On May 26, 1942 in Reinhard Heydrich presence in Prague Wallenstein Palace as part of the "Prague Music Festival 1942" Piano Quintet, Op. 5, where, the next morning was followed by the assassination of the Reich Protector .

Works

Choral music

  • op. 28 Vergissmeinnicht for male choir and solo (publisher: Alt & Uhrig, Cologne)
  • op. 29 A Busserl. Cheerful male choir (Publisher: Alt & Uhrig, Cologne)
  • op. 60 German saying for six-part male choir; Words by Bismarck (Publisher: Halle (Saale): Heydrich Conservatory: 1914: 3 pages)
  • op. 61 The big hour. Fatherland compositions for male choir a cappella with piano or instrumental accompaniment; Text v. Wolfgang Herzfeld (comp. 1914/15)
  • op. 62 Soldatentreu for four-part male choir a cappella; Text: Wilhelm Hauff (Publisher: Halle (Saale): Heydrich Conservatory: [around 1915]: 5 pages)
  • op. 77 The 90th Psalm for four-part women's or boys' choir with solo quartet
  • op. 84 ordination (founded in antiquity) for four-part mixed choir with piano accompaniment

Religious music

  • op.50,2 prayer. Wedding chants for one voice with organ accompaniment (harmonium or piano)
  • op. 58 Our Father for solo voice, violin, organ (or harmonium) and harp (or piano)

Piano music

  • op. 6 feelings of love. Small suite for piano
  • Marienbad Panorama March

Chamber music

  • op. 2 piano trio
  • op. 3 string quartet
  • op. 5 piano quintet

Songs

  • The truth (O Carneval)
  • op. 1 Three songs (1. The Sennin, 2. Boat trip, 3. The girl's talk ) for a singing voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte (publisher: Hoffarth, Dresden)
  • op. 11 Lullaby ( Go to sleep! ) (Publisher: Näumann, Dresden)
  • op. 12 I love you so infinitely! (Publisher: Näumann, Dresden)
  • op. 15 The old name. Ballad for medium voice with piano (Publisher: Näumann, Dresden)
  • op. 16 Novellette for voice with piano accompaniment (1886); Text by Wilhelm Geissler: 1. Be quiet and do not speak a mortal word. 2. I have a loyal love. 3. The lamp went out, the stars turned pale
  • Op. 17 kiss song. Last wish: I would just like to tell you once (Publisher: Näumann, Dresden)
  • op.18 kiss song. O could 'I kiss you at any hour' (Verlag: Tonger, Cologne)
  • op. 19 Kiss song. Drum kisses, kisses, kisses (Publisher: Tonger, Cologne)
  • op. 20 Kiss song. Because I'm starting to kiss you (Publisher: Tonger, Cologne)
  • op. 21 kiss song. She told me everything in a kiss (Publisher: Tonger, Cologne)
  • op. 22 O would you know how beautiful you are! (Publisher: Heinrichshofen, Magdeburg)
  • Op. 23 kiss song. Little babe, kiss me! (Publisher: Tonger, Cologne)
  • op. 25 enthusiasm. Violets, in the mild breezes! (Publisher: Tonger, Cologne)
  • op. 26 enthusiasm. O come to me in a dream (Publisher: Tonger, Cologne)
  • op. 27 enthusiasm. You love me (Publisher: Tonger, Cologne)
  • op. 35 You. I have a jewel in my heart (Verlag: Bartels; Braunschweig)
  • op. 36 I shall see you again (Publisher: Bartels; Braunschweig)
  • op. 37 Bride and Groom (Publisher: Bartels; Braunschweig)
  • op. 41 Two songs for a singing voice with piano accompaniment (1. O come, you spring joy , 2. I let you, my angel, as before, if I were the Lord God ), farmer, Braunschweig
  • op. 43 Farewell. Oh come on my girl : song for a singing voice with piano accompaniment
  • op. 56 Prinzesschens Wiegenlied (publisher: Halle a. S .: self-published by comp .: [around 1910]: 5 p.)
  • op. 63 Heimgedanken for a medium voice with piano accompaniment (Halle (Saale): Hothan: [around 1915]: 7 pages)
  • op. 64 Des Liebsten Grab for a medium voice with piano accompaniment (Halle (Saale): Hothan: [around 1915]: 3 pages)
  • op. 65 Reiters Abschied for a medium voice with piano accompaniment (Halle (Saale): Hothan: [around 1915]: 5 p.)
  • op. 66 Reich Unity for a medium voice with piano accompaniment (Halle (Saale): Hothan: [around 1915]: 5 p.)
  • op. 67 mother suffering for a medium voice and piano (Halle (Saale): Hothan)
  • op. 68 Welcome Child for a medium voice with piano accompaniment (Halle (Saale): Hothan)
  • Op. 69 Faith, Love, Hope for solo voice and piano or organ accompaniment (Publisher: Halle (Saale): Hothan: 1915: 3 pp.)
  • op. 70 Herziges Kind (Heimatsehnen) for a voice with piano accompaniment (Verlag; Halle (Saale): Hothan: [around 1915]: 5 pp.)
  • op.74 Annemarie , song with piano accompaniment for a medium voice (text by Julius Freund )
  • op. 75 Reiterlied

Operas

  • Amen (1895). "Opera drama in 1 act ue musical-pantomimic preludes"
  • Peace (1907). Opera
  • Chance (1914). Opera in one act
  • The lyre girl. "Volksoper"
  • The Eternal Light (1923). Opera

Orchestral music

  • op. 57 Symphony in D major

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Gerwarth: Reinhard Heydrich. Biography. Siedler, Munich 2011, p. 34. See also Karin Flachowsky on family relationships : New sources on Reinhard Heydrich's descent. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Volume 48, 2000, pp. 319-327, here pp. 324-327 (PDF) .
  2. ^ Lew Hohmann : Reinhard Heydrich . OTTONIA Media, 2006.
  3. ^ Altenberg Trio Vienna
  4. ^ Robert Gerwarth: Reinhard Heydrich. Biography. Siedler, Munich 2011, p. 45 f.
  5. ↑ Karin Flachowsky: New sources on the lineage of Reinhard Heydrich. (PDF) In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte. Volume 48 (2000), Issue 2. Institute for Contemporary History Munich, pp. 319–327.
  6. ^ Volker Mohn: Nazi cultural policy in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Concepts, practices, reactions . Klartext, Essen 2014 ISBN 978-3-8375-1112-3 , p. 317.
personal data
SURNAME Heydrich, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heydrich, Richard Bruno (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (tenor), composer and singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Leuben , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1938
Place of death Halle (Saale)