Christian Friedrich Koennecke

Christian Friedrich Koennecke , called Fritz (born June 19, 1876 in New York , NY ; † August 30, 1960 in Schwaz , Tyrol ) was a German composer .

biography

Koennecke attended the Munich Music Academy and studied composition and counterpoint with Max Rheinberger , piano with Albert Schmidt-Lindner , and instrumentation with Ludwig Thuille .

His first work was the cheerful opera Cagliostro. General Music Director Felix Mottl (Munich) and General Music Director Max von Schillings (Stuttgart) intended to release the work at the same time, but demanded major cuts, which he did not make at the time, so that the performances failed.

He wrote two one-act plays that were intended as historical contrasts for one evening. The one opera based on the carnival play of the same name by Hans Sachs " The driving student in the Paradeis " was performed in Karlsruhe in 1913 with success. The second “Shepherd's Game” (text by A. Sexauer ) was a piece of Rococo. Then he wrote a speaking and singing oratorio for Max Reinhardt's directorial book "Kings Saul and David". The performance planned for 1917 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin failed because Fritz Koennecke did not have German citizenship.

His opera “Magdalena” (text by Heinz Hinzelmann ) was premiered from 1919 to 1921 in Berlin in the German Opera House and other cities. In 1934 the oratorio “Weltenwende” was created, which was successfully premiered on a large scale with 500 participants in Recklinghausen. He wrote “Saga” symphonically, a heroic legend in 18 pictures. In 1943 his dance fairy tale by "Senta Mariea" was performed in the Prinzregententheater in Munich. His songs were published by Simrock-Verlag Leipzig. His stage works have been published by the publishing house of German stage writers and stage composers.

Web links

• Christian Friedrich (Fritz) Koennecke
• Literature by and about Christian Friedrich Koennecke in the catalog of the German National Library