Erwin Stein (musician)

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Erwin Stein (born November 7, 1885 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died July 17, 1958 in London ) was an Austrian composer , conductor and music theorist .

Life

Erwin Stein was born as the youngest child of the publisher and bookseller Markus Stein ( Manz Verlag ) , who comes from Bohemia and works in Vienna , into an art-loving upper-class family of Jewish origin. On January 19, 1886, he converted to the Evangelical Faith HB together with his mother and sister Helene

The mediocre student enrolled at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Vienna for the winter semester of 1905/1906 , but also attended philosophical lectures with Wilhelm Jerusalem and Friedrich Jodl .

From 1906 to 1910 Stein took lessons from Arnold Schönberg . “The meeting with Schönberg determined Stein's further fate (...)." Stein became a tireless champion of the music of his teacher and that of the Schönberg circle . During his years in Vienna, Stein was a leading employee of Universal Edition , in which he also owned shares.

After the " Anschluss of Austria " to Germany in 1938, Erwin Stein, as a Jew, had to sell his shares in Universal Edition and emigrate to London . There he became an employee of the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes and promoted and propagated the work of Benjamin Britten - like Arnold Schönberg's before in Vienna . He also contributed to Opera magazine .

On July 17, 1958, Stein suffered a fatal heart attack . His ashes were scattered to the wind after a cremation . He left behind twelve songs, four piano works and a scherzo for string quartet , arrangements of works by Gustav Mahler , Alban Berg , Anton Bruckner , five books and more than 170 music theory essays.

The pianist Marion Thorpe was born from her marriage to Sofie Bachmann . Erwin's siblings were the publisher Richard Stein (1871–1932) ( Manz Verlag ), the theosophist Paula Kemperling (1878–1952), Emma von Sax (1882–1969), who worked for Manz Verlag, and the painter Helene Winger (1884–1945) .

Works (selection)

Compositions

  • Five songs ( Heinrich Heine ) for a voice and piano (music collection of the Austrian National Library [hereinafter: Mus. Hs.] 39.441)
  • Three songs from "Die Nordsee" ( Heinrich Heine ) for voice and piano (Mus. Hs. 39.446)
  • Song "Stay in your ocean depths" ( Heinrich Heine ) for baritone and piano (Mus. Hs. 39.445)
  • Song "It laments somewhere in the dark" for soprano and piano (Mus. Hs. 39.444)
  • Song "Das Ideal" ( Richard Dehmel ) for soprano and piano (Mus. Hs. 39.443)
  • Song "Gebete der Mädchen zu Maria" ( Rainer Maria Rilke ) for soprano and piano (Mus. Hs. 39.447)
  • Song "Do not disturb the sleep of your dearest woman, my light!" For baritone and piano (Mus. Hs. 39.442)
  • Scherzo and Trio for string quartet (Mus. Hs. 39.448)
  • Untitled (Rondo) (Mus. Hs. 39.449)
  • Andante for piano (Mus. Hs. 39.450)
  • Untitled (theme with variations) (Mus. Hs. 39.451)
  • Rondo for piano (Mus. Hs. 39.452)

Writings (books)

  • Practical guide to Schönberg's theory of harmony. Vienna 1923
  • Orpheus in New Guises. London: Series of articles 1953
  • Arnold Schönberg: The form-forming tendencies of harmony. Mainz 1957 (Translation of Steins from: Structural Functions of Harmony. London 1954)
  • Arnold Schönberg - Letters (Selected and edited by Erwin Stein). Mainz 1958
  • Form and Performance. London and New York 1962 (German translation: Music - Form and Presentation. Munich 1964)

literature

  • Thomas Brezinka : Erwin Stein. A musician in Vienna and London . (Writings of the Arnold Schönberg Science Center; Vol. 2). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2005, ISBN 978-3-205-77384-9
  • Michael Fend: "Is the performance a function of the musical form? - About Erwin Stein", [contains "Provisional directory of Erwin Stein's writings"], in: Grassl, Markus & Kapp, Reinhard (ed.), The teaching of the musical Performance in the Vienna School. (Viennese publications on musicology; Vol. 3). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-98891-4 , p. 317-347
  • Alexander Rausch : Stein, Erwin. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Taufmatriken HB City 19/01/1886
  2. ↑ Thomas Brezinka : Erwin Stein. A musician in Vienna and London. Vienna - Cologne - Weimar: Böhlau 2005 (publications of the Arnold Schönberg Science Center, vol. 2), p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME Stein, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, conductor and music theorist
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1958
Place of death London