Eduard Künneke

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Eduard Künneke (born January 27, 1885 in Emmerich ; † October 27, 1953 in Berlin ) was a German operetta composer .

Life

Künneke, son of a businessman , studied musicology and literary history in Berlin from 1903 to 1905 . From 1905 to 1906 he attended a master class with Max Bruch . From 1907 to 1909 he worked as a répétiteur and choirmaster at the New Operetta Theater on Schiffbauerdamm . From 1908 to 1910 he also worked as a conductor for the record label Odeon , and from 1910 to 1911 he was Kapellmeister at the Deutsches Theater . After his opera Robins end ( in 1909 ) after the premiere at the National Theater in Mannheim was enacted on 38 German theaters, he handed over the function of the choirmaster. From 1906 he was a lecturer in vocal accompaniment at the Stern Conservatory .

During his time as Kapellmeister with Max Reinhardt , Künneke composed the incidental music for the staging of Faust II .

Memorial plaque for Künneke in Berlin's Giesebrechtstrasse

Eduard Künneke's easy-going music is characterized by rhythm and harmonious styles. His best-known work was the operetta Der Vetter from Dingsda (1921). Many of his songs are still hits today . His piano concerto and the dance suite for jazz band and large orchestra are works with significantly higher demands and can be classified as upscale entertainment music.

Grave of Eduard Künneke in the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin-Westend

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he became a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 ( membership number 2,633,895), but was expelled in 1934 for " non- Aryan infiltration ", confirmed in 1936 by the party district court. Nevertheless, with a special permit from Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels , he was allowed to continue composing because of the propaganda value. During the Nazi era , Künneke wrote other operettas, marches and film music.

For many years the composer (since 1926 - the premiere of his operetta Lady Hamilton in Breslau) was close friends with the conductor Franz Marszalek , who during his work at WDR Cologne was emphatically committed to Künneke and made numerous recordings (many of which are no longer available) Has recorded music with the Kölner Rundfunkorchester and the Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester. This also includes a performance, 1960, of the arrangement of Schubert's piano sonata in D major, D 850, for piano and orchestra, which was composed during the last years of the war.

In 1908 Künneke married the opera singer Grethe Polkowski (* 1880), from whom he divorced in 1919, and in 1920 the soprano Katharina Müller (1882–1967) was his second marriage. His second wife was the daughter of the actor Hugo Müller (1847–1902) and appeared under the name "Katharina Garden"; The actress and singer Evelyn Künneke comes from this marriage .

Eduard Künneke died after a long illness on October 27, 1953 in the West Berlin Heckeshorn Clinic of heart failure . His grave is in the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: II-W7-71). He rests there next to his wife Katharina and near their daughter Evelyn.

His estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Works

Operas

  • 1909: Robin's end
  • 1913: Coeur As
  • 1931: Nadja
  • 1935: The great sinner

Drama music

  • 1911: Faust II
  • 1912: Circe
  • 1912: That's life

Singing games

Operettas

Film music

  • 1922: Pharaoh's wife
  • 1926: The flower miracle
  • 1928: One night in London
  • 1930: The Waltz King
  • 1930: El amor solfeando
  • 1930: L'amour chante
  • 1931: The Marquise of Pompadour
  • 1932: The black hussar
  • 1933: Tambour battant
  • 1933: What do men know?
  • 1933: Return to happiness
  • 1933: three blue boys, one blonde girl
  • 1933: There is only one love
  • 1933: The page from the Dalmasse Hotel
  • 1933: Three blue boys - one blonde girl
  • 1933: Happy journey
  • 1933: The young Dessauer's great love
  • 1934: Lisetta
  • 1934: The voice of love
  • 1934: The flower girl from the Grand Hotel
  • 1934: The cousin from Dingsda
  • 1934: Adventure of a young gentleman in Poland
  • 1934: Something is wrong
  • 1934: The Brenken case
  • 1936: A song accuses
  • 1936: Over there in the heather
  • 1936: The laughing third
  • 1936: Till Eulenspiegel: How Eulenspiegel painted the Landgrave of Marburg
  • 1936: Till Eulenspiegel: How Eulenspiegel pronounced a judgment
  • 1936: Till Eulenspiegel: How Eulenspiegel answers questions from the nine times wise
  • 1936: Till Eulenspiegel: How Eulenspiegel once offered to fly
  • 1937: How the hare goes
  • 1938: The naked sparrow
  • 1938: Peter plays with fire
  • 1939: Dancing Heart
  • 1943: When the young wine blooms
  • 1950: marriage to Erika
  • 1953: The cousin from Dingsda
  • 1954: Happy journey

Instrumental works

  • Flailing years. Three orchestral pieces based on the novel of the same name by Jean Paul Werk 9
  • Piano concerto in A flat major
  • 1929: Dance suite. Concerto Grosso in 5 Movements for Jazz Band and Large Orchestra, Work 26
  • Flower Wonder Suite No. 1 and 2
  • Overtures

literature

Recordings (selection)

See also

Web links

Commons : Eduard Künneke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of teachers at the Stern Conservatory (1850–1936)
  2. ↑ a b Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 4.027.
  3. ↑ Marriage register, registry office Charlottenburg I, No. 224/1908
  4. ↑ Marriage register, Wilmersdorf registry office, No. 80/1920
  5. ↑ Eduard Künneke died . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Wednesday October 28, 1953. p. 10. Retrieved October 20, 1953.
  6. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 490.
  7. ↑ Presto Classical: Künneke, Eduard: Die luring Flamme , accessed on November 12, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Künneke, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German operetta composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Emmerich (today: Emmerich am Rhein )
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1953
Place of death Berlin