Emil Mangelsdorff

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Emil Mangelsdorff (2015)
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Emil Mangelsdorff ( born April 11, 1925 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 21, 2022 ibid) was a German jazz musician ( saxophone , flute ). With his powerful alto tone and finely chiseled lines, he was, according to Martin Kunzler , "one of the most distinguished, versatile soloists" in German jazz. His younger brother was the jazz trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff (1928-2005).

Live and act

Emil Mangelsdorff first played the accordion. As a member of the illegal Frankfurt Hotclub Combo , he switched to the clarinet , which he played from 1942 to 1943 at the Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt. Because of his commitment to jazz, he was repeatedly harassed by the Gestapo and arrested in early 1943 and interned for 14 days. After the Wehrmacht and being a prisoner of war , Mangelsdorff joined the Frankfurt jazz scene in 1949 and played with many different groups (first with Joe Klimm, then with Jutta Hipp , the Two Beat Stompers and the Frankfurt All Stars , later in his own groups, but also with Wolfgang Lauth ) . In 1966 he founded the Swinging Oil Drops with Joki Freund , Volker Kriegel , Fritz Hartschuh and Günter Lenz . After the death of his wife, soprano Simone Mangelsdorff , he retired from the scene for a year, only to return in 1974 with a new quartet. According to Bert Noglik , playing together with his quartet creates “an enormous lightness, almost something like lightheartedness, without sacrificing the depth of musical feeling and thought”.

His musical development ran parallel to that of jazz. He was initially strongly influenced by Dixieland and swing , but he also creatively took up the stimuli coming from contemporary developments in jazz such as bebop and fusion . At the same time, he embarked on experiments such as jazz and poetry . This personal development is documented by recordings with his quartet and, since 1958, by his membership in the jazz ensemble of the Hessischer Rundfunk , where he appeared more as a soloist and ensemble player than as a composer ( according to Jürgen Schwab , he has fewer than ten compositions or arrangements there contributed). He now played mainly alto saxophone, but also flute and soprano saxophone. In the field of jazz, according to Tom Lord , he was involved in 100 recording sessions between 1941 and 2007, most recently with the HR Jazz Ensemble.

Mangelsdorff was also active as a jazz pedagogue; From 1960 to 1966 he led a jazz class with Carlo Bohländer at the Frankfurt Youth Music School and wrote a "Instructions for Improvisation for Saxophone in Bb" (Mainz: Schott 1964).

Mangelsdorff often accompanied his old companion Fritz Rau on his reading tours. As a contemporary witness, he often gave information about his experiences in the so-called swing youth in schools. For several years he has had his own series of concerts at the Holzhausenschlösschen in Frankfurt .

He composed the film music for the film by Frankfurt director Malte Rauch Blues March Soldier Jon Hendricks .

Prizes and awards

Emil-Mangelsdorff Quartet in Frankfurt am Main, 2009

On January 20, 2006, Emil Mangelsdorff was awarded the Goethe Plaque of the State of Hesse for his services to culture in Hesse (after he had already received the Johanna Kirchner Medal (1991) and the Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt am Main in 1995). . Emil Mangelsdorff is also the recipient of the Hessian Jazz Prize (1995) and the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal (2001), the highest award of the State of Hesse. In 2008, Social Affairs Minister Silke Lautenschläger presented him with the Cross of Merit , First Class, of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. At the Ronneburg he was made "Knight of Jazz". In December 2015, the Hessian Minister for Science and Art awarded Mangelsdorff the title of “ Honorary Professor ” in the concert hall of the State Music Academy of Hesse in Schloss Hallenburg .

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web links

Commons : Emil Mangelsdorff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

itemizations

  1. ↑ Danijel Majic: Frankfurt jazz legend Emil Mangelsdorff is dead. In: hessenschau.de. 21 January 2022, retrieved 21 January 2022 .
  2. ↑ Michael Kater daring game. Jazz in National Socialism . Cologne 1995, p. 277
  3. ↑ Michael Kater Daring Game , p. 354
  4. ↑ Knauer, Wolfram, Darmstadt Jazz Institute, Darmstadt Jazz Forum (11th: 2009): Albert Mangelsdorff: Tension, tension . Original Edition Edition. Cloud, Hofheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-936000-05-4 , p. 283 .
  5. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 2, 2022)
  6. ↑ Section Awards EM
personal data
SURNAME Mangelsdorff, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (saxophone, flute)
BIRTH DATE April 11, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2022
PLACE OF DEATH Frankfurt am Main