Evelyn Faltis

Evelyn Faltis (born February 20, 1887 in Trautenau , † May 13, 1937 in Vienna ) was an Austrian composer and répétiteur .

Life

Faltis was born in Trautenau in Bohemia as the daughter of a large industrialist and educated in a Paris convent school. From 1905 she studied piano and composition in Vienna with Alexander von Zemlinsky and Eusebius Mandyczewski , which she continued from around 1909 with Felix Draeseke and Eduard Reuss in Dresden and with Sophie Menter in Munich . She lived in Berlin from 1918 and moved back to Vienna around 1934. She was probably the first woman to work as a solo répétiteur , e. B. at the Bayreuth Festival (1914–1933) and at the Städtische Oper Berlin (1924–1937). With her works she was able to achieve certain successes as a composer in German and Austrian musical life, but she largely stopped composing when she got her first permanent position in 1924. She died of pneumonia in 1937 and was buried in Bayreuth at her own request.

Create

Her numerous compositions, including chamber music works and songs, were mostly printed by Verlag Ries & Erler in Berlin; some are still performed today. They require further research in order to be able to place them in the music of their time.

Works

• Compositions
• Sonata in B minor for piano (without op, ca.1909)
• Piano trio in D minor, op.1
• Fantastic symphony for orchestra, op.2a
• Hamlet. Symphonic poem for orchestra, op. 2b
• Six songs, op.2c: 1. Fulfillment - 2. Lost - 3. Swinging golden cradles - 4. O don't trust your loved ones - 5. In the night - 6. Dead autumn.
• Piano concerto, op.3
• Piano trio in G minor, op.4
• Andante and Slavic Dance for piano and violin, op.5
• Adagio for violin and piano, op.5 (opus number doubled)
• Sonata for violin and piano in D minor, op.6
• Three songs for voice and piano, op. 7 (1921) 1. Dreams - 2. Litany - 3. Nepomuk.
• Seven songs for voice and piano, op. 8 (1921) 1. Folk tune - 2. Golka - 3. Rose days, wonderful - 4. Song of the dancer - 5. Love song - 6. Vigil - 7. Fog.
• Invocation: “Which paths should I walk” for an eight-part mixed choir a capella. Text: H. Ossenbach, op.9 (1929)
• Six songs for voice and piano, op. 10 (1921) 1. Why - Come home, I can't wait - 3. Hymn - 4. Libussa - 5. The perplexed - 6. In the evening.
• Two sacred songs, op.11
• Fantasy and double fugue with "Dies Irae" for organ, op. 12 (1922)
• Six Gypsy Songs, op. 12a (1921) 1st commission - 2nd Die Verliebte - 3rd Farewell - 4th Kolednika - 5th Bräutchen's garden - 6th The Forsaken.
• String Quartet, op.13a
• Mass with organ, op.13b
• Two songs for voice and piano, op. 14 (1931) 1. Dream - 2. The cherry tree.
• String Quartet, op.15
• Songs of distant memory for voice and piano, op. Post. (1939) 1. Unclarity – 2. Show me your true picture – 3. Speak – 4. Coming home.

literature

• Birgitta Maria Schmid: Faltis, Evelyn . In: The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers , ed. by Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel. Macmillan Press: London 1994, p. 163.
• Faltis, Evelyn. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 287.
• Uwe Harten: Faltis, Evelyn. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
• Silke Wenzel: Evelyn Faltis . In: MUGI. Music education and gender research: Lexicon and multimedia presentations , ed. by Beatrix Borchard and Nina Noeske, University of Music and Theater Hamburg, 2003ff. As of May 2, 2009.

Web links

• Estate in the BSB Munich