Ernst Bachrich

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Ernst Emanuel Bachrich (born May 30, 1892 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died July 11, 1942 in the Majdanek concentration camp ) was an Austrian composer , song accompanist and conductor .

Life

Ernst Bachrich was a son of military officer Isador Bachrich and Julie Eisler, he was related to musicians from the Bachrich family. He attended the Erzherzog-Rainer-Gymnasium and studied law at the University of Vienna from 1911 to 1915 and received his doctorate. In addition, he attended musicological lectures from Wilhelm Fischer and Guido Adler from autumn 1914 . In 1916/17 he was a student of Carl Prohaska and Carl Lafite , from June 1916 also private student of Arnold Schönberg , and in 1918/19 he took part in Schönberg's courses in the rooms of the Black Forest School . He became a founding member of the Association for Private Musical Performances and took over the office of secretary in 1919. He often played the piano part at the club's concerts.

From 1920 he worked at the Vienna Volksoper as a répétiteur and then also as a conductor under the directors Fritz Stiedry and Felix Weingartner . He made his way as a freelance guest conductor in Vienna, for example at the Ronacher Theater and in 1922/23 at the Hakoah sports club , and also conducted in Linz, Munich and Paris.

In 1928 he took up a position as Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater Düsseldorf . The following year he moved to the United City Theater Duisburg-Bochum , where he was employed until the end of August 1932.

As accompanist he brought in 1921 with Erika Wagner Stiedry the Two Songs, Op. 14 by Schoenberg premiered. He accompanied Karl Neumann, who sang songs by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Graedener . In 1928 he played Alban Berg's Piano Sonata op. 1 for a radio broadcast on the BBC .

His compositions have been performed repeatedly in Vienna and also produced on the radio. In 1925 Ruzena Herlinger performed songs by Bachrichs. Also in 1925 his Drei Gesänge op. 3 were printed by Doblinger .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he received no more engagements in Germany. In 1936 in Vienna he replaced Paul Amadeus Pisk as organizer of the concert series “Contemporary Music” alongside Marcel Rubin and Friedrich Wildgans .

After the annexation of Austria in early 1938 he was banned from working . His name was found in Hans Brückner's book Judentum und Musik (1938), which was written with denunciation intent, and in 1941 in the official lexicon of Jews in Music (1941). In 1940 he had to give up his apartment and move into a Jewish house . On May 15, 1942, Bachrich was deported on Transport 21 from Vienna to the Izbica ghetto in occupied Poland. From there he was transferred to the Majdanek concentration camp , where he was murdered on July 11, 1942. His mother died on September 6, 1942 in the Theresienstadt ghetto .

Some of his works have only been performed and recorded again since 2000.

Works (selection)

  • Sonata for piano op.1
  • Sonata for violin and piano op.2
  • Three songs for voice and piano op.3
  • Portraits , Three Piano Pieces, Op. 6
  • Psalm and Easter Blossom for voice and piano op.10
  • Anthem of the Sun for medium voice and piano op.11
  • The early verses . Melodrama based on Emil Arnold-Holm op.15
  • L'Angelus . Breton folk tune for voice and piano
  • Prelude for piano
  • The last roll call for male choir with wind accompaniment

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SURNAME Bachrich, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bachrich, Ernst Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, piano accompanist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1942
Place of death Majdanek concentration camp