Eugene Pope
Eugen Papst (born December 24, 1886 in Oberammergau ; † January 2, 1956 there ) was a German composer and professor of music.
life and work
The son of the same-named teacher and senior teacher Eugen Papst (1855–1923), after whom the Eugen-Papst- Förderschule in Germering was later named, attended the teachers' seminar in Freising and studied from 1907 at the Academy of Music in Munich .
In 1910 he worked at the theater in Allenstein and from 1911 in Bern as the musical director of the city theater. In 1922 he was called to Hamburg , where he led the Hamburg Philharmonic together with Karl Muck , until it was dissolved by the National Socialists in 1934 . Papst first went to Münster as general music director in autumn 1934 , but became director of the Cologne men's choir as early as 1935 and shortly afterwards, with the support of his friend Richard Strauss , as successor to Hermann Abendroth, city general music director of the Gürzenich Orchestra . He also taught conducting at the Cologne University of Music . After the end of the war there were disputes about his position as general music director because the city of Cologne appointed Günter Wand in 1946 despite an ongoing contract with Pope . In his opinion, the Pope became more and more “the musical leading figure of the yesterday”.
Pope accepted a call to the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold , where he held master classes in conducting.
For the Oberammergau Passion Play in 1950 he created an arrangement of the passion music by Rochus Dedler (1779–1822), which was played unchanged until 1990 and, with revisions and additions by the current musical director, Markus Zwink, is essentially in use to this day.
His other works include orchestral pieces, choirs and songs, but only partially published.
Honors
- In 1933, Eugen Papst was awarded the Johannes Brahms Medal from the City of Hamburg.
- Streets in Munich , Germering and Oberammergau are named after him.
literature
- Monika Reger: Pope, Eugene. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 57 f. ( Digitized version ).
Documents
- Letters from E. Papst from 1929 to 1934 are in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher CFPeters in the Leipzig State Archives .
Web links
- Literature by and about Eugen Papst in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Eugen Papst in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Seifert: Günter Wand: so and not otherwise. Thoughts and memories. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-455-11154-8 , p. 159.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pope, Eugene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberammergau |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd January 1956 |
| Place of death | Oberammergau |