Ebbe Hamerik

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ebbe Hamerik

Ebbe Hamerik (born September 5, 1898 in Frederiksberg ( Copenhagen capital region ); † August 1951, drowned in Kattegat ), actually Hammerich, was a Danish composer and conductor .

Life

Ebbe Hamerik is the son of the composer Asger Hamerik and the American composer and pianist Margaret Elizabeth Williams (1867-1942) and the nephew of the musicologist Angul Hammerich (1848-1931). In 1916 he attended the Sorø Academy , where he composed his first pieces. Hamerik received private lessons from his father in theory and orchestration. In 1917 he learned to conduct with the American composer and conductor Frank van der Stucken , who spent the last years of the First World War in Copenhagen. In 1919, Hamerik founded and directed an amateur orchestra. In the same year he became choir and auxiliary conductor at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen, where he made his debut as a conductor with Gluck's operas Orpheus and Eurydice . In 1922 he left the theater and devoted himself to composition. In the years up to 1927 he was studying abroad. a. in Lübeck, Mainz and Antwerp. Between 1927 and 1931 he was the conductor of Musikforeningen (Musikverein) Copenhagen, where he conducted works by Bartók , Ravel , de Falla , Reger , Kodály and Prokofjew . From then on he worked as a conductor in Vienna, Leipzig and Dresden. In 1933 he received the Ancker scholarship. In 1940 Hamerik took part in the Soviet-Finnish winter war as a volunteer on the Finnish side . From 1939 to 1943 he was a frequent guest on the Danish radio. In 1944 he married Brita Møller, the daughter of the piano manufacturer Knud Møller. Hamerik was a passionate sailor. In August 1951 he was shipwrecked in the Kattegat on a trip from Norway to Sweden. The wreck was found near Halmstad , the body remained missing. The opera Marie Grubbe and the five Cantus Firmi made Hamerik internationally known.

Works (excerpt)

  • Operas
    • Stepan , 3 acts (libretto Fredrik Nygaard, first performance November 30, 1924 in Mainz , Danish premiere on March 31, 1926 in Copenhagen)
    • Leonardo da Vinci , 4 scenes from the life of Leonardo (libretto by M. Moretti and C. Muzzi, world premiere on March 28, 1939 in Antwerp )
    • Marie Grubbe , 2 acts (12 images), based on the novel by Jens Peter Jacobsen (libretto Fredrik Nygaard, world premiere May 17, 1940 in Copenhagen)
    • Rejsekammeraten ( Der Reisekamerad ), 9 pictures, based on the fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen (Libretto Karl Nielsen, world premiere January 5, 1946 in Copenhagen)
    • Drømmerne ( The Dreamers ), 2 acts, based on Karen Blixen's sixth story from the Syv fantastiske fortællinger ( Seven Fantastic Stories ) collection, polytonal music drama (libretto Ebbe Hamerik, written 1949, first performed September 9, 1974 in Aarhus )
  • ballet
    • Dionysia (first performance 1927 in Antwerp)
  • Orchestral works
    • Sommer (text by Fredrik Nygaard) for orchestra and baritone, 1920
    • Goethe cycle for orchestra and baritone, 1928
    • Orchestral variations on an old Danish motif, 1934
    • 5 short symphonies ( Cantus Firmus I to Cantus Firmus V ), composed between 1937 and 1949
  • Chamber music
    • 2 string quartets (D minor and A major), 1917
    • String quintet Quasi Passacaglia e Fuga , 1932
    • Wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon), 1942
  • Songs
    • Fire Sange ( Four Songs ), 1916
    • Upp alla nordens men (Swedish, based on a text by the Swedish author Rudolf Hammar), 1940
    • Syv sejler og sømandssange ( Seven Sailors and Seafarer's Songs ), 1943
    • Danmark i Dag ( Denmark today ), 1945, based on a poem by Erik Bertelsen (1898–1969)

literature

  • Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon , Supplement, Volume XXVI, Schultz Forlagsboghandel, Copenhagen 1930.
  • Wilibald Gurlitt (Ed.): Riemann Musiklexikon , 12th edition. B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1959.
  • Don Michael Randel (Ed.): The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music . Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon , Supplement, Volume XXVI, Schultz Forlagsboghandel, Copenhagen 1930, Frederiksberg belongs to the greater Copenhagen area, so Copenhagen is often given as the place of birth
  2. ↑ The information on the day of death varies: The Riemann Musiklexikon names the 15th, The Havard Biographical Dictionary of Music the 11th and others the 12th.
  3. ↑ Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon (Danish women's biographical lexicon)
  4. ↑ the ending en is an article, so Musikforeningen is called Der Musikverein (see also Rejsekammeraten)
  5. ^ Travel grant, named after Carl Andreas Ancker, a Danish patron, son of a wholesale merchant, 1828–1857
  6. ^ Kraks Blå Bog (Kraks Blue Book), 1949
  7. ↑ arkivmusic.com
  8. ↑ u-declension: cantus is the plural form here
  9. ^ List of stage works by Hamerik, Ebbe based on the MGG in Operone
  10. ^ Danish playwright and journalist, 1897–1958, Hamerik's college friend at the Sorø Academy
  11. ↑ Det Virtual Music Library
  12. ↑ alias Isak Dinesen
  13. ↑ on August 29, 1974 on Danish radio
  14. ↑ in Danish it says: Op alle nordens maend, in German: to all men of the north, a hymn to the volunteers of the winter war
personal data
SURNAME Hamerik, ebb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hammerich, ebb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH August 1951
Place of death Kattegat