Ernst Kunsemüller

Ernst Kunsemüller (born June 24, 1885 in Rehme ; † April 25, 1918 in Düsseldorf ) was a German conductor , pianist and composer .

Life

Ernst Adolf Johannes Kunsemüller was the son of a pastor and - after attending grammar schools in Gütersloh and Detmold - initially studied theology for a few semesters, then history, German and philosophy in Bonn and Berlin . In 1909 he obtained his doctorate in Bonn. phil. He then studied piano, music theory, conducting and composition at the Cologne Conservatory with Carl Friedberg , Franz Bölsche and Fritz Steinbach . From 1910 he was director of an a cappella choir in Neuss am Rhein. In 1912 he went to Kiel , where he became the conductor of the Kiel VDM concerts and the Kiel Choral Society. In 1914 he was appointed Academic Music Director at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . Kunsemüller volunteered for military service in mid-1915 and took part in the First World War . He died of gunshot wounds in a Düsseldorf hospital in 1918.

Works

• Songs for voice and piano op.1
• Songs for voice and orchestra op.2
• Four songs for soprano and piano op.3
• Piano Sonata No. 1 op.4
• Three chants based on texts by Gustav Falke for baritone and piano op.5
• Variations on an own theme for piano op.6
• Nine boys songs for alto voice and octet accompaniment op.7
• Three songs for mixed choir a cappella op.8 (Premiere Kiel 1915)
• Serenade for small orchestra op.9
• Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major op.10
• Three songs based on poems by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer for voice and piano op.11
• Three chants for an alto part with accompaniment by piano and French horn op.12 (Premiere Kiel 1914)
• Spitzweg Suite for piano and violoncello op.15
• Six songs for high voice and piano op.16
• Spring Pictures (Piano Pieces) op.17
• String quartet
• Concert overture for large orchestra

Literature / sources

• Art. Kunsemüller, Ernst, in: Hugo Riemann, Musik-Lexikon, 10th edition, Berlin (Max Hesse) 1922, p. 692.
• Art. Kunsemüller, Ernst, in: Paul Frank and Wilhelm Altmann , Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstlerlexikon, 13th edition, Leipzig (Carl Merseburger) 1927, ISBN 3-7959-0083-2 , p. 207.
• Michael Kube: Art. Kunsemüller, Ernst Adolf Johannes, in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck, Vol. 10, Neumünster (Wachholtz) 1994, pp. 235–237.
• Selke Harten-Strehk, Oliver Kopf and Karl-Heinz Reinfandt: Society of Friends of Music. A Kiel concert life, Kiel (Mühlau) 2001, p. 84 ff. Et passim.

Web links

• Works by and about Ernst Kunsemüller in the catalog of the German National Library