Carl Ehrenberg (composer)

Carl Ehrenberg (around 1913)

Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg (born April 6, 1878 in Dresden , † February 26, 1962 in Munich ) was a German composer .

Life

He was the son of the painter Carl Ehrenberg and the brother of the violinist and painter Paul Ehrenberg ; the brothers, who lost their mother in 1892, grew up in the house of the state archivist Theodor Distel with his daughters Hilde and Lilly .

He studied at the Dresden Conservatory under Felix Draeseke . He was then Kapellmeister in Dortmund , Würzburg , Posen , Augsburg , Metz and Lausanne and from 1922 Staatsoper Kapellmeister in Berlin . From 1925 to 1935 he taught at the Cologne University of Music , joined the NSDAP in 1932 ( membership number 1.240.737) and was professor at the Munich University of Music from 1935 to 1945 . In addition, within the Nazi regime, he was a member of the student council of music educators of the Reich musicians.

Ehrenberg composed an opera , two symphonies , symphonic sketches , two orchestral suites , an overture , male choirs with an orchestra , a cello concerto, chamber music works, theatrical music and songs .

It rests in the Munich North Cemetery .

Works (selection)

Symphonic prologue to a patriotic commemorative play (1916)
Anneliese. Nordic ballad op.24
Dein Vaterland for choir and orchestra op.27 (1927)
Festive Prelude op.34
Music for a German fairy tale, op.35
Romantic overture for orchestra (1938)
Goethe songs (1939)
Sonata for violin and piano (1939)
Sinfonietta op.45 (1950)

Web links

Carl Ehrenberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Works by and about Carl Ehrenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
The estate is in the Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

↑ So according to the birth entry, accessed on ancestry, com, June 9, 2016; see. also this thread
^ ^A ^b Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 1335–1337.
^ ^A ^b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 130.

personal data
SURNAME	Ehrenberg, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ehrenberg, Carl Emil Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German composer of classical music
DATE OF BIRTH	April 6, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	February 26, 1962
Place of death	Munich

[1] So according to the birth entry, accessed on ancestry, com, June 9, 2016; see. also this thread

[Prieberg-2] A ^b Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 1335–1337.

[Klee130-3] A ^b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 130.