Edmund von Borck

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Edmund Konstantin Wilhelm von Borck (born February 22, 1906 in Breslau ; † February 16, 1944 near Nettuno , Italy ) was a German composer and conductor .

Life

Edmund von Borck comes from a family of tenants and landowners ennobled in 1796. His father Eduard von Borck (1864–1938) was Rittmeister in the Leib-Kürassier-Regiment “Großer Kurfürst” (Silesian) No. 1 , through his mother Erika, nee. von Lübbecke (1880–1945), he was related to Johann Friedrich Reichardt .

Borck was a piano student of Bronisław von Poźniak from 1920 to 1926 and received composition lessons from Ernst Kirsch . After graduating from high school, he began studying musicology in Breslau , which he continued in Berlin in 1928 . But soon afterwards he switched to conducting studies and completed the Kapellmeister class at the Berlin University of Music under the direction of Julius Prüwer .

In 1930 he became Kapellmeister at the Frankfurt Opera and was a guest conductor with the Berlin Philharmonic , the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 1931 he returned to Berlin, largely withdrew from conducting and devoted himself to his compositional work. In 1932 his first works appeared in print. In 1933 he achieved his decisive breakthrough with the world premiere of Five Orchestral Pieces op. 8 at the World Music Day of the International Society for New Music in Amsterdam, and he was considered one of the most hopeful composers of his generation in Europe. From 1936 his works were published by Universal Edition in Vienna.

Borck was called up for army service in 1940, he fell in the wake of the Allied invasion during Operation Shingle near Nettuno. His grave is in the German military cemetery in Pomezia .

Works (selection)

Choral works

  • op. 9 Rural cantata for women, men, boys' voices and string orchestra based on texts by Richard Billinger

Chamber music

  • op. 7 sonata for violin and piano
  • op. 11/1 Introduction and Capriccio for violin and piano (1934)
  • op. 11/2 Prelude for Violin
  • op.12 Allegro ditirambico for piano (1934)
  • op. 13 Altlieder (1937)
  • op.15a Sextet for flute and string quintet (1936)
  • op. 19 Small suite for flute
  • op. 23 Three songs for an alto voice, viola and piano based on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

Operas

  • op. 18 Napoleon, opera in 3 acts, based on Ch. D. Grabbe's drama (1940–42), (first performance September 19, 1942 at the Gera Theater )

Orchestral works

  • op. 6 Concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra (1932), (premiered in 1932 at the Hannover Music Festival by saxophonist Sigurd Rascher , conductor Rudolf Krasselt )
  • op.8 Five Orchestral Pieces (1933)
  • op.10 Prelude and Fugue for Orchestra (1934)
  • op.14 Concerto for Orchestra (1935), (first performance February 4, 1936 on the Berlin shortwave station)
  • op.15b Concertino for flute and string orchestra (1936)
  • op.16 theme, four variations and finale (1936), (first performance April 21, 1936 at the Dresden Music Festival by the Dresden Philharmonic , conductor Paul van Kempen )
  • op.17 Zwei Fantasiestücke (1940), (first performance 1940 at the Hamburg State Opera , conductor Eugen Jochum )
  • op.20 Concerto for piano and orchestra (1941), (first performance May 1941 in Berlin with Conrad Hansen as soloist)
  • op. 21 Orphika (1942), (first performance November 21, 1948 by the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Werner Bollert:  Borck, Edmund Konstantin Wilhelm von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 458 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Gesine Schröder: Schlesische Moderne um 1930. Two examples: Edmund von Borck and Hans Zielowsky , accessed on August 23, 2012
  3. ↑ Borck, Edmund von . In: Ostdeutsche Biografie (Kulturportal West-Ost), accessed on 23 August 2012
  4. ↑ http://www.volksbund.de/graebersuche.html
personal data
SURNAME Borck, Edmund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borck, Edmund Konstantin Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1944
Place of death Nettuno