Ernst Meyerolbersleben

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Ernst Ludwig Meyerolbersleben (born October 30, 1898 in Würzburg , † November 17, 1991 in Berlin ) was a German composer , pianist , conductor , conductor , singer and music teacher . His father was the composer and pianist Max Meyer-Olbersleben .

Life

Meyerolbersleben studied at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He worked in Dresden, Munich, Würzburg, Weimar and Berlin. From 1940 to 1945 he was deputy director and in 1945 interim director of the Liszt School of Music Weimar . From 1951 to 1953 he directed the Volksmusikschule Berlin-Mitte (today: Music School Fanny Hensel ). Then he was a lecturer at the University of Music in Charlottenburg.

One of his operas, Irrwisch , original text by Olga Brugger, was whistled by the National Socialists when it was first performed on June 17, 1937 in Wiesbaden as an alleged denigration of the swastika, whereupon the composer never had it performed again.

Works

The compositions by Ernst Meyerolbersleben include:

  • Operas and operettas,
  • Chamber music: sonatas, quartets and suites,
  • Choirs based on various poets, including Goethe, Hesse, Brentano, Claudius, Eichendorff, Morgenstern, Sack, Storm, Uhland,
  • modern chorales,
  • Songs and duets,
  • Chansons based on Bierbaum, Wedekind, Wolzüge, A. Holz and others
  • Lullabies,
  • Arrangements of French, Spanish, Russian and Romanian folk songs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John London (Ed.): Theater Under The Nazis. Manchester University Press, Manchester 2000, ISBN 0-7190-5991-7 , p. 175 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Meyerolbersleben, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer-Olbersleben, Ernst; Meyerolbersleben, Ernst Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, pianist, conductor, Kapellmeister, singer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1991
Place of death Berlin