Erich Anders

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Erich Anders actually Erich Freiherr Wolff von Gudenberg (born August 29, 1883 in Teutschenthal ; † January 8, 1955 in Hamburg ) was a German musician and composer.

Erich Anders

Life

Erich Anders was a student at the Leipzig Conservatory ( Max Reger , Josef Pembaur , Arthur Nikisch and others) and the university ( Hugo Riemann , Arnold Schering and others).

After completing his studies, he initially took on the positions of Kapellmeister in Barmen and Heidelberg. He then worked as a music critic for the Berliner Börsenkurier and the music educational papers. He also worked as a seminar leader at the Benda Conservatory in Berlin. In 1916 Anders went to Munich and in 1919 to Cologne. From 1920 he shifted his duties in favor of a music educational activity. He married the Cologne concert soprano Tiny Debüser , but the marriage did not last long. Until 1922 he was a music lecturer at the University of Bonn .

He went to Berlin and worked for a short time in the office of the Reich Art Warden Edwin Redslob . In 1922 he became a composition teacher at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory . Here, too, he could not be kept and in 1924 he moved to the Deutsche Oper Berlin as press officer . Shortly afterwards he tried his hand at the director of the Grotrian-Steinweg Saal in Berlin. In his mid-forties he was attracted to new occupations in various musical fields. He became film director and music and theater advisor for the German newsreel .

In 1927, Anders expanded his duties to include the management of the "non-profit association for the care of German art". In 1933 and 1934 he was finally director of the Altmark Theater in Stendal. During the Third Reich he was advisor to the Reichsmusikkammer , student council for composers. In 1945 he moved to Hamburg. Here he lived until his death as an opera agent and freelance composer.

style

The compositions by Erich Anders are primarily of an entertaining nature, artistically influenced by Richard Strauss and Impressionism . The focus of his work lies in the smaller forms of program-related orchestral music and songs. Here in particular, the highly educated composer went his own way.

Works (selection)

  • Two love songs for 1 voice with piano accompaniment, Work 1 (1916)
  • Pictures in the course of a day for a child 8 small pieces for piano 2 hands, work 2
  • Two chants based on poems by Wilhelm Alfred Imperatori for 1 voice with piano accompaniment, Work 5
  • Children's pieces: 6 small piano pieces for d. Youth, Plant 6
  • From the night. 2 landscape Motifs composed by WA Imperatori, for 1 voice with orchestral accompaniment, work 8
  • Three songs based on poems by Theodor Storm, for 1 voice with piano accompaniment, work 10 (1916)
  • Six little songs to Albers Sergel 's "Ringelreihen", for 1 voice with piano accompaniment, work 11 (1916)
  • Six little songs for Paula Dehmel 's children's picture books, for 1 voice with piano accompaniment, work 12 (1916)
  • Three songs based on poems by Walter Cale , for e. Voice with piano accompaniment, work 13 (1916)
  • Sketches for Andersen's fairy tales 3 pieces for piano 2 hands, work 14 (1916)
  • Venezia. Tragic opera in 1 act by Hans Ludwig. Music by Erich Anders. Berlin 1916. Plant 16
  • Five Chants with Piano Accompaniment, Work 19 (1914)
  • Two songs for e. medium voice with piano accompaniment, work 21 (1917)
    • Now you too, my heart, go to rest, Werk 21, No. 1 (1917)
  • Sixteen little songs to e. Children's picture book by Egon Hugo Strassburger , for 1 voice with piano accompaniment, work 22
  • Death and life. Rhapsodic scene by Ernst von Bassermann-Jordan . Music v. E. Different. Plant 25 (1919).
  • Four simple duets, work 29
  • Seven Marienlieder from Der Geistliche Mai, for women's quartet a cappella, work 43
  • String Quartet (C major) for 2 violins, viola a. Violoncello, Werk 47 (1925)
  • Figaro figurines, plant 65
  • Concerto for oboe and orchestra, work 68
  • Music in front of the curtain, Capriccio, Werk 71 (1937)
  • A monogram becomes music for small orchestra, work 72
  • Wadden Sea in Midsummer, Study for Orchestra, Work 77
  • A little cure music, work 83 (1939)
  • Six songs poems by Stefan George, for high voice a. Piano, Werk 88 (1940)
  • Flute songs for soprano, flute and piano, work 109
  • Far Eastern Spring, words based on Japanese poetry and set to music for female voices and piano, work 133 (1950)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The new music lexicon, translation by Alfred Einstein, Berlin 1926
  2. ↑ The music in past and present, Vol. 15, Supplement, Kassel 1973

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personal data
SURNAME Different, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff von Gudenberg, Erich Freiherr (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Teutschenthal , Saalekreis
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1955
Place of death Hamburg