Emil Kühns

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Emil Kühns (born February 12, 1866 in Prague ; † unknown) was a German musician, composer, choir director and conservatory director.

Life

The son of the actor Carl Paul Volkmar Kühns (1832–1905) began playing the violin when he was six. From 1876 to 1882 he studied at the Prague Conservatory and engaged in theoretical studies. He received further training as a violinist in the years 1884–1885 at the Paris Conservatory . His first job was as the first violin teacher at the conservatory and as the first concertmaster and second conductor of the princely court orchestra in Sondershausen . In 1891 he became a teacher and concertmaster of the Musikverein in Linz on the Danube . From 1891 until his appointment to Königsberg he was also a permanent member of the orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival . From 1897 to 1899 Emil Kühns was co-director and teacher at the Freudenberg Conservatory in Wiesbaden . In 1899 he was appointed director of the Conservatory in Königsberg. At the same time he took over the leadership of a violin class and a choir class. In 1903 Emil Kühns became the patent holder of a "device for practicing fingering for violin players". Until 1914 he was also the conductor of the Königsberger Staats-Eisenbahner-Gesangverein. In 1929 his thirty years of work at the Königsberg Conservatory was celebrated. In 1935 the Königsberg address book mentioned his name in connection with the conservatory. During the Nazi era, Emil Kühns was included on a "list of Jews, mixed-race Jews and Jewish ethnic groups" excluded from the Reichsmusikkammer. His name is also mentioned in a "Lexicon of Jews in Music". The wife Malwine, b. Weiss, his older brother, the actor Friedrich Kühns , was Jewish. The end of Emil Kühns' life is unknown.

Works

  • Op. 5 Mazurka for violin with pianoforte, Linz.
  • Op. 8 "Gnomentanz" fantasy piece for violin with pianoforte, Linz.
  • “Paduana” for the pianoforte, 1903.
  • Arrangements of the following pieces of music for violin and piano:
    • Johann Strauss sound images from the "Fledermaus"
    • David Popper Opus 50 Suite "Im Walde" No. 3, 4 and 5
    • David Popper Opus 52 No. 1 "Feuillet d'Album"
    • David Popper Opus 54 No. 1 "On the guitar"
    • David Popper Opus 57 Second Tarantella
    • David Popper Opus 65 No. 2 Minuet

literature

  • Güttler, Hermann: Thirty-five years of teaching at the Königsberg Conservatory for Music. Emil Kühns on his fiftieth birthday . Koenigsberg 1916
  • Erich H. Müller: German Musicians Lexicon . Page 778.Wilhelm Limpert, Dresden 1929
  • Fritz-Hans Schulz, Emil Kühns: E mil Kühns director of the Königsberg Conservatory for Music for 30 years (1899–1929) . Königsberg: Königsberger Allgemeine Zeitung and publishing house printer, 1929.
  • Concise Tonkunstler Lexicon. For musicians and friends of music . founded by Paul Frank, revised and supplemented by Wilhelm Altmann with a foreword by Helmut Roesner. First part: Reprint of the 1936 edition. 15th edition, page 325. Heinrichshofen's Verlag, Wilhelmshaven.
  • Theo Stengel, Herbert Gerigk: Lexicon of Jews in Music . With a list of titles of Jewish works. Compiled on behalf of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP on the basis of official, party-checked documents (publications of the Institute of the NSDAP for research into the Jewish question, vol. 2), Berlin: Bernhard Hahnefeld, 1941 (1st edition 1940, anti-Semitic publication).
  • The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians . Eighth Edition - Revised, p. 325. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York 1958.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Patent holder: Emil Kühns in Königsberg, Prussia patent: device for practicing grasping for violin players. Patented: January 9, 1903 P-169
  2. ↑ Bundesarchiv, Berlin: List of Jews, Jewish mixed race and Jewish relatives excluded from the Reichsmusikkammer . Third part, K ​​– L (Sign .: R 55/21303).
  3. ^ Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians from the Nazi Era , 2006, University of Hamburg
  4. ↑ Handbook of Musical Literature . Volume 11 (or volume 8). Containing the musical works newly published and reissued from the beginning of 1892 to the end of 1897, page 470. Ed .: Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig 1900.
  5. ↑ Handbook of Musical Literature . Volume 11 (or volume 8). Containing the musical works newly published and reissued from the beginning of 1892 to the end of 1897, page 470. Ed .: Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig 1900.
  6. ^ Complete index of German-language literature (GV) 1700–1910. Arranged: Hilmar Schmuck and Willi Gorzny. Volume 82 Ks – Kun, page 172. Munich / New York / Paris 1983.
personal data
SURNAME Kühns, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, composer, choir director and conservatory director
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH 20th century