Celestin Rypl

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Celestin Rypl (born September 12, 1894 in Pilsen , Austria-Hungary ; died May 12, 1945 in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia ) was a Czech pianist, composer, editor and cultural official.

Life

Celestin Rypl attended grammar school in Pilsen and studied law in Prague from 1913 to 1920. He received his musical training from Adolf Mikeš , Jan Heřman , Emil von Sauer and Josef Bohuslav Foerster .

He played as a pianist in 1915/17 in a duo with the violinist Jaroslav Kocian , later with the Ševčík Quartet , with the Czech Philharmonic , the Šašek Philharmonic and other soloists. From 1924 to 1928 he was a professor at the Mainz Conservatory and, probably, from 1929 at the Hochschule für Tonkunst Darmstadt . Between 1932 and 1938 he lived in Hory Matky Boží .

Rypl became cultural advisor in the Czech government during the Sudeten crisis in 1938. After the German occupation of the Czech Republic in 1939, he worked for the Minister of Education and Public Enlightenment Emanuel Moravec in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . In 1940, at the invitation of the Reich Propaganda Ministry, Rypl took part in a trip by 34 Czech cultural workers through the German Reich and the occupied Netherlands . At the end of the war Rypl committed suicide .

Works (selection)

  • (Co-editor): Sborník k oslavě stoletých narozenin Antonína Dvořáka 1841–1941 . Prague: Evropské vyd-vo, 1941
  • Promluvme si o hudbě! Prague: Orbis, 1944
Compositions
  • Symfonia ruris; pro sopránové sólo, dětský a smíšený sbor a velký orchestr; na slova latinských textů; op. 16 . (1937/38)

literature

  • Andreas Wehrmeyer (Ed.): Music in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: (1939–1945). Facts, backgrounds, historical environment . Munich: Ricordi, 2008 ISBN 9783938809341
  • Volker Mohn: Nazi cultural policy in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: concepts, practices, reactions . Essen: Klartext, 2014 ISBN 978-3-8375-1112-3 Zugl .: Düsseldorf, Univ., Diss., 2011
  • Kateřina Nová: Celestin Rypl - symphony života a smrti . In: Klimeš, Ivan, Wiendl, Jan (eds.): Kultura a totalita III. Revoluce . Práce Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Karlovy, 2015, pp. 303–319
  • Kateřina Nová: The ambiguous reception of Antonin Dvorak's music during the Reichsprotektorat Bohmen und Moravia (The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia), 1939–1945 . In: David Fanning , Erik Levi (eds.): The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938–1945: propaganda, myth and reality . New York: Routledge, 2020 ISBN 978-1-138-71388-8 , pp. 211-230

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rypl on group photos at: Lukáš Beer: České dojmy z Říše. Výprava českých umělců a novinářů do Německa a Holandska v září 1940 , NÁŠ SMĚR, blog, September 11, 2010
  2. ↑ Wolf Oschlies : September 1940: Czech intellectuals on a visit to "Greater Germany" , in: Future needs memory , September 28, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Rypl, Celestin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Pilsen
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1945
Place of death Pilsen