Erwin Offeney

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Erwin Offeney (born June 2, 1889 in Stettin ; † July 26, 1966 in Berlin ) was a German composer and conductor .

Life

Offeney, son of a senior musician ( military musician ), studied music and medicine after graduating from high school in 1909. During his studies, he conducted large symphony orchestras at times and gave concerts as a pianist in other European cities. After the compulsory creative break in the First World War , he composed operettas and played accompanying music for silent films . Since May 1, 1932 he was a member of the NSDAP with membership number 1.106.693.

In 1933 he became head of the music department of the Norma-Ton-Film-Gesellschaft . In this capacity he composed film music and got to know some well-known accordionists . This made him want to play the accordion himself. Since 1936 he has been a piano and accordion teacher in Berlin-Spandau and at the same time conductor of the Spandau Handharmonika Orchestra, with a focus on orchestral music. In 1935 Offeney and Marc Roland wrote the music for the anti-Semitic film Just don't get soft, Susanne! . In 1937 he was honored with his orchestra at a folk music festival in Karlsruhe in the upper school.

In the following years he composed z. For example the pieces Pastorale and Länders , Träumerei , Suite No. 1 , Rhapsodische Fantasie in D and Appassionata , which are still played today, and wrote the two-volume basic accordion school The Way to Mastery in 1944 (Bosworth-Verlag).

After being interrupted by the Second World War , Offeney rebuilt his orchestra. As the first accordion orchestra after the war, Offeney's ensemble was able to inspire the full Titania-Palast in Berlin, played on the Berlin television station and in 1953 took part in a major event in front of 25,000 listeners.

With the move to Wolfsburg (probably 1957/58) he started a completely new beginning. On November 12th, 1961 he founded the Hohner-Orchester-Offeney in Wolfsburg , which was later renamed the Accordion-Orchester-Wolfsburg .

Works

  • The way to mastery. Great school of accordion playing according to the latest teaching principles , two volumes, Verlag Bosworth & Co, Vienna / Cologne 1944

literature

  • Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom Lexicon, PDF on CD-ROM, Kiel 2004, pp. 5009–5010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , p. 5009.
personal data
SURNAME Offeney, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1966
Place of death Berlin