Edmund Nick

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Edmund Nick (born September 22, 1891 in Reichenberg / Böhmen , Austria-Hungary , † April 11, 1974 in Geretsried ) was a composer, conductor and music writer. He wrote songs, chansons, stage and film music, operettas, music for comedies, Das kleine Hofkonzert , music reviews , etc. a. for the Neue Zeitung , Die Welt and 1963–1973 for the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

life and work

The merchant's son studied 1910-1915 in Vienna and Graz Jura , simultaneously completed a musical education at the Vienna Academy of Music and at the Dresden Conservatory and in 1918 at the University of Graz Dr. jur. PhD. Nick was married to the concert singer Käte Jaenicke (1889–1967), daughter of Karl Jaenicke , since 1920 ; they had their daughter Dagmar Nick, born in 1926 . Käte Nick-Jaenicke was considered a “ half-Jew ” during the Nazi era , and all three were subjected to reprisals.

In 1921 Nick became Kapellmeister of the Drama Theaters in Breslau , and in 1924, together with Fritz Ernst Bettauer, artistic director of the Silesian Radio Lesson . In 1928 he brought the still young conductor Franz Marszalek to this station. In 1929, in collaboration with Erich Kästner, the radio game “Life in this time” was created. In 1933 he was fired from the station. He moved to Berlin, where he worked until 1935 as musical director of the cabaret Die Katakombe and from 1936 to 1940 musical director at the People's Theater in Berlin-Mitte . Nick received orders to compose the music for a large number of Ufa films, the last one in 1944 for Eine Frau für Drei Tage . In December 1943 he was bombed out, and the family moved to Bohemia and from there had to flee to Bavaria in February 1945. From autumn 1945 Nick took over the construction and management of the cabaret Die Schaubude in Munich together with Kästner, the former employee in Breslau and Berlin, and Rudolf Schündler . In 1947 Nick became chief conductor of the Bavarian State Operetta, today's State Theater on Gärtnerplatz , in Munich. From 1949 to 1952 he was a professor at the Munich Conservatory . From 1952 to 1956 he was head of the music department at Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne, where he founded the Cappella Coloniensis , an ensemble for historically informed performance practice. From 1957 to 1960 he was a music critic for “Welt” and from 1962 for “Süddeutsche Zeitung”.

Nick composed the musical comedy " Das kleine Hofkonzert " (1935), operettas (including "Über alles siegt die Liebe", 1940, and "The Queen's Collar", premiered December 1, 1948) as well as entertainment, stage and film music . He wrote “Paul Lincke” (1953) and “From Viennese Waltz to Viennese Operetta” (1954). At the end of his collaboration with Kästner in 1969 he composed the music for the 1955 poem cycle “ The 13 Months ”.

In the 1950s, Nick made some recordings for Deutsche Grammophon with the Munich Philharmonic and the Bavaria Sinfonie Orchester . Among them is a recording of the Hungarian Rhapsodies No. 2 and No. 12 by Franz Liszt and his Hungarian Fantasia for piano and orchestra with the then very popular pianist Julian von Károlyi .

Nick's grave is located in Munich's Westfriedhof .

Awards

Works (selection)

Radio play music

Recordings

In 2010 the label CPO published Edmund Nicks “Life in this time. Lyric Suite in Three Movements (1929). Text by Erich Kästner “u. a. with Elke Kottmair, Marcus Günzel, Christian Grygas, Walter Niklaus, Peter Ensikat, Ralf Simon, Gerd Wiemer. Ernst Theis directs the choir and orchestra of the Dresden State Operetta . The recording offers both the reconstruction of the radio play version and the music from the concert version.

• 2010 CD The 13 Months - Erich Kästner in songs and songs by Edmund Nick (Ulrich Schütte vocals; Gerold Huber piano).

• 2015 CD Journey into the World. Erich Kästner in songs and chansons by Edmund Nick (Constance Heller vocals; Gerold Huber piano; Dagmar Nick narrator).

Literature and references

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Edmund Nick, Art. "Nick, Edmund", in: Music in the past and present. General encyclopedia of music, vol. 9, Kassel etc. 1961, col. 1444.
  2. ^ The AHRC Research Center for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music. Retrieved May 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Franz Liszt, Julian von Karolyi - Hungarian Rhapsodies No. 2 and 12 / Hungarian Fantasia for Piano and Orchestra. Retrieved May 20, 2018 .
  4. ^ Gravesite of Kate Nick-Jaenicke and Edmund Nick
  5. ↑ duo-phon-records
  6. ↑ Spectral
personal data
SURNAME Nick, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, conductor and music writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenberg , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1974
Place of death Geretsried