Carl Lafite

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Carl Lafite, 1942
Grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery by Wolfgang Wallner

Carl Lafite (born October 31, 1872 in Vienna ; † November 19, 1944 in Sankt Wolfgang im Salzkammergut ) was an Austrian composer, organist, choir director, conductor, program designer, organizer, music teacher, critic and piano accompanist for lieder singing.

Life

Carl Lafite, son of his father of the same name, the painter Carl Lafite (1830–1900), was already composing a knight's opera at the age of eight. He received early suggestions from neighborly contacts with Eduard Strauss . After attending grammar school, he studied organ and piano with Anton Door and composition with E. Robert, Johann Nepomuk Fuchs and Anton Bruckner at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna from 1889–93 . In 1898 he passed the state examination. Before that he worked in Olomouc (1894–96) as a teacher of the city music school for organ and harmony, where he organized so-called "Schubertiaden". In 1895 and 1897 Lafite performed as a pianist with the star violinist František Ondříček , with whom he went on concert tours in the Habsburg Empire and in Russia. From 1898 he was back in Vienna.

Lafite was active in a variety of ways : as an organist ( Piarist Church 1898–1910), as a music prefect (KK Blindeninstitut 1898–01, Wiener Damenchorverein and Wiener Sängerbund from 1900), as a choir conductor ( Wiener Singakademie 1901–06 with a focus on the great choral works of the Viennese classical music and Early Romanticism, also Evangelical Singing Association, Vienna Singing Association, for Franz Schalk 1910–12 Singing Association of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna ). Lafite taught basic theory in 1906 at the Duesberg Music School and in 1909 co-founded the New Vienna Conservatory . In 1928 he organized the official Schubert celebrations with Otto Erich Deutsch. In the same year, as a special institution of the Academy of Music, he founded style training courses for artistic piano accompaniment , which he led until 1938. In 1911 Lafite was appointed general secretary of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (before its Zentenar celebration in 1912). He directed their fortunes in stormy times until 1921 and switched to the management, as a member (until 1938) he wrote their chronicle 1912-37. Lafite was also present in public by looking at music as a critic such as columnist for the newspapers Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung from 1908, Neue Freie Presse , Neues Wiener Tagblatt and Österreichische Volkszeitung until 1937. In 1912 he became a member of the Aldania fraternity in Vienna .

Carl Lafite was married to the columnist Helene Tuschak since 1915 . His son was Peter Lafite , the founder of the Austrian music magazine , his daughter-in-law Elisabeth Lafite and his granddaughter Marion Diederichs-Lafite . He was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery.

power

As a composer, Lafite created art music in close proximity to folk tunes; He specially created songs with chamber music that sounded to the colorful, different-intellectual poet's words, also orchestrated on various occasions. He was in demand - at the start of the Wiener Festwochen , for stages in Berlin and Prague, the University of Leipzig, for various churches and also for early sound films (Selenophon). His work was published by several publishers and it was also played on shellac records . In the choir, Lafite revived traditional song tables to form program cycles with content. Lafite was formative as a teacher; as a piano accompanist he performed with the most important personalities of his time. His choral piece St. Michael sang through the decades, most of the choir associations honored him in Austria from 1922 to 1936 - the Vienna Men's Choir Association and German Singing Festivals wrote him inquiries. The bühneninszenierte to Schubert music Hannerl - a direct continuation of Berthe's time the same Dreimäderlhaus  - brought special appreciation. The five around Schubert had the "Schubertiade Hohenems" performed in 1998.

reception

Lafite was considered one of the most important piano accompanists of his time. As a composer he created, among other things, an oratorio, operas ( The Hour , The War of the Muses , The Cold Heart ), operettas (composed of melodies by Mozart , Schubert and Beethoven ), choirs and songs that are close to the style of Franz Schubert, as well as melodramas.

Works (selection)

Fonts
  • The Schubert song and its singers . Strache, Vienna 1928.
  • History of the KK Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. 1912-1937 . Holzhausen, Vienna 1937.
  • Ill 'ego qui fuerim [ Who I was] - 50 years of music in Vienna , autobiography (MS 236 pp.) (Unpublished)
  • Viennese folk music (Suppé, Lehár, Strauss, Singspiel, ..., MS 236 S.) Vienna 1942, publication planned.
  • Estate (letters, reviews, programs, literature, works, directories) in Vienna
Songs
  • Viennese , 1901
  • Chants (Japanese, message, to the forest birds, Ghazel), Universal Edition Vienna 1910
  • Nordic songs , 1919
  • Old Italian chants , 1930
  • Folk songs (French, Flemish, Russian, Finnish), Haslinger Wien 1931
  • Alt-Ottakring (wine lifter), Herzmansky 1941
  • Alt-Wien , Universal Edition, undated Vienna
Choral music
  • Sankt Michael (O. Kernstock), 1902
  • Consecration of the night (text by Hebbel), R. Fohrberg, Leipzig 1929
  • Mystical Chants , Doblinger Verlag, Vienna 1930
  • approx. 100 choral works for male choirs, female choirs, sacred chants
Stage works
  • The cold heart , fairy tale opera, (based on Wilhelm Hauff), Prague 1909
  • The War of the Muses , (text Otto Julius Bierbaum ), commissioned for the 500th anniversary of the university, Leipzig 1909
  • Poor Augustin , dance game in 3 pictures, Universal Edition Vienna / Leipzig 1914
  • Du dear Vienna , Weinberger Verlag 1916
  • Hannerl . Singspiel in 3 acts. (Libretto by Alfred Willner ) Krcag, Vienna 1916, premiere Berlin 1918 (director's book with stage sets 1918)
  • The congress dances , Singspiel in 3 acts (text Julius Bauer & Wittmann) Verlag kk Theater adWien, Leipzig 1918
  • The hour . Three musical one-act plays, with a prelude and an aftermath. (Libretto by Leo Feld) Universal-Edition, Vienna 1925 / UA Braunschweig
  • Five to Schubert , 1928 RAVAG, Vienna
  • Divorced people recommend ... , comic opera in one act. (Libretto by Leo Feld ) Universal-Edition, Vienna 1930
  • King Fridolin Altwiener Suite undated, Universal Edition
  • Silent music . Play in 4 acts. (Libretto by Rudolf Holzer based on Grillparzer) Verband der Dt. Stage writer, Berlin 1934
Melodramas
  • The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikoff , concert opera 1925 (based on Russian folk epic Michail Lermontoff)
  • Strauss waltz , 1930
  • Monologue of King Arthus , Vienna 1932
  • Ball in the Apollo Hall , (Franz Ginzkey) 1932
  • Dear Augustin , (Ginzkey) 1932
  • Holy Night , Christmas mystery (based on Ludwig Thoma), Vienna 1933
Movie

Honors

literature

  • Siegfried Loewy : Old Viennese families. (Tagblatt Library No. 164/165). Steyrermühl, Vienna 1925.
  • Walter Kleindel: The great book of the Austrians. 4500 person representations in words and pictures, names, dates, facts. Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-218-00455-1 .
  • Carl Lafite in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  • The intellectual elite of Austria. A handbook of leaders in culture and business. Vienna 1936
  • Helene Lafite: Austrian sound poets in the Vienna Male Choir Association . 1951
  • From the memoir manuscript . In: ÖMZ 3/12 (1948), p. 334 ff.
  • Carl Lafite in memory . In: ÖMZ 27/11 (1972), pp. 608-611.
  • Alexander Rausch: Lafite, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
  • Friedrich Blume: Music in the past and present. General encyclopedia of music . Volume 8 (Laaff-Mejtus). Kassel 1960
  • Music in the past and present (Marion Diederichs), Lafite family. Supplement Volume 29, Kassel 2009.
  • Franziska Feuerstein: The Singspiel "Hannerl" , University of Vienna 2009
  • Theophil Antonicek :  Lafite, Carl (1872–1944). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 402 f. (Direct links on p. 402 , p. 403 ).

Web links

Commons : Carl Lafite  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 431-433.
  2. ↑ Tuschak-Lafite, Helene . ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: ARIADNE project “Women in Motion” , Austrian National Library , January 29, 2009, accessed on December 1, 2010.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.onb.ac.at
  3. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association .
  4. ↑ a b Without proof
  5. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association .
personal data
SURNAME Lafite, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1944
Place of death Sankt Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut