Ernst Heinrich Schliepe

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Ernst Heinrich Schliepe (born May 25, 1893 in Darkehmen , † April 10, 1961 in Berlin ) was a German composer.

Schliepe was born the son of a veterinarian and studied music in Königsberg, Bonn and Berlin. He received his musical training at the conservatories in Berlin and Königsberg. In 1911 he became a theater conductor in Königsberg and from 1913 he conducted in Memel, Insterburg, Halle, Cologne and Aachen. He moved to Berlin in 1921 when he worked as a music critic and also wrote books about music. During the Second World War, from 1939 to 1944 he was the director of several concerts by young musicians, and he also directed a vocal quartet on Brahms. Schliepe also emerged as a composer of various string quartets, madrigals, cantatas, concert pieces and operas.

Letters from Ernst Heinrich Schliepe are in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher CFPeters in the Leipzig State Archives .

Works

  • Marienburg
  • Night on the Bosphorus
  • Forms of opera
  • The gentleman across the street

literature

  • Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 8, Munich a. Leipzig, KG Saur, p. 911.

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