Felix-Eberhard from Cube

Johann Felix-Eberhard von Cube (born January 27, 1903 in Hanover ; † March 12, 1988 in Hamburg ) was a German composer , musicologist , music theorist and founder and director of the Heinrich Schenker Academy for Music Research in Hamburg.

Origin and family

Felix-Eberhard von Cube came from the Baltic German noble family of Cube consisting of the Mark Brandenburg came at the beginning of the 18th century in Livonia had settled. They then spread to Germany , Russia and France . His father was the architect Gustav Hermann von Cube , who was married to Maria (Mamy) Sternheim, sister of Carl Sternheim , and to Margarethe (Marga) Lindemann in his second marriage, Johann Felix was from the first marriage. His siblings were the screenwriter Irma von Cube (1899–1977), the journalist Walter von Cube (1906–1984) and the writer Hellmut von Cube (1907–1979). Johann Felix marries Henriette Reich, they had a daughter who died in 1946.

Live and work

Cube was a private student of the pianist and music writer Otto Vrieslander (1880-1950), who was a family friend. Vrieslander recommended that his pupil continue studying with Heinrich Schenker in Vienna . He stayed in Vienna between 1924 and 1926 and then gave music lessons at the Rheinisches Musikseminar in Duisburg .

Gravestone for Felix-Eberhard von Cube, Ohlsdorf cemetery

In 1931, Cube was again recommended by Vrieslander to found a Schenker Institute in Hamburg together with Moriz Violin . It was closed as early as 1934 - at the same time Cube was banned from working - and only reopened its doors after the Second World War . He was not impressed by the professional ban and began to shape his teacher's theories into pedagogical forms. In his first work “ Textbook of Musical Art Laws ” (1934) he conceived his results. This treatise was later expanded and ended with graphical analyzes . In 1987 his first work appeared in English as " The Book of the Musical Artwork ". The next book, entitled " Death Struggle or Resurrection of German Music ", is essentially a tirade against modernity and describes anecdotal information about his upbringing, his studies with Schenker, and his career as a teacher in Duisburg and Hamburg. From 1961 to 1973 Cube was a lecturer in composition analysis at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Hamburg. One of his best-known students was Karl-Otto Plum , who published studies on Heinrich Schenker's voice lead analysis ; he presented the results of his studies with Johann Felix-Eberhard von Cube in a multi-year analytical work on Johann Sebastian Bach's works for solo string instruments.

The grave of Felix-Eberhard von Cube is located in grid square S 16 (south of Chapel 2) in Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery .

Works

During his creative period Cube was in Hamburg, Duisburg, Cologne, Munich and Vienna, he wrote several writings and was the creator of 3 concerts , 2 orchestral pieces, 2 solo works and 4 musical arrangements .

Compositions

• Concert works: Concerto for violin and orchestra in A minor , Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in E flat major and Rondo - Burlesque for piano and orchestra in B flat minor ;
• Orchestral music: Sensitive string music - Chamber sinfonietta for strings and concerto for orchestral instruments in a new style;
• Solo works: Sonata No. 4 for piano in E minor , Toccata for piano in F minor and Praeludium con Fuga in B flat op.21 / 1 for piano
• Arrangements: Overture ( suite ) in D major for two trumpets , timpani , strings and bc, overture (suite) in e minor for flute ( oboe ), strings and bc), overture in e minor for two oboes, bassoon , strings and bc and Overture in F major "A musical fun" for four horns , two oboes, strings and bc (all by the composer Georg Philipp Telemann )

Fonts

• Agony or resurrection of German music . An autobiographical essay. Hardcover - 1984 self-published (1984), Hamburg, 1984
• Textbook of musical art laws : published by the Schenker von Cube Institute for Music Research Hardcover - 1995, Hans Juul (editor), Anke Juul (editor), publisher: Benjamin - Simrock (1995) ISBN 3-920882-01-6
• The Book of the Musical Artwork : An Interpretation of the Musical Theories of Heinrich Schenker (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music), Verlag E. Mellen Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0889464360

literature

• William Drabkin, Felix-Eberhard von Cube . Entry on Schenker Documents Online (English and German) [7]
• William Drabkin, Felix-Eberhard von Cube and the North-German Tradition of Schenkerism , Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association JSTOR
• Helmut Scheunchen : Lexicon of German Baltic Music. Harro von Hirschheydt publishing house, Wedemark-Elze 2002. ISBN 3-7777-0730-9 . P. 50 f.

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry to Cube, Felix-Eberhard v .. In: BBLD - Baltic biographical lexicon digital
• Felix-Eberhard von Cube in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Cube, Felix-Eberhard. International music publishers Hans Sikorski

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schenker Institute, Hamburg: Prospectus [1]
2. ↑ Conservatory of the City of Duisburg and Rheinisches Musikseminar (1925-1949) [2]
3. ↑ [3]
4. ↑ Schenker Institute , Hamburg, Prospectus
5. ^ William Drabkin, Felix-Eberhard von Cube. Entry on Schenker Documents Online (English and German) [4]
6. ^ Cube, from; Online research - Hamburg State Archive Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Österreichische Musikzeitung , Volume 35, Issue JG (Dec 1980) Brief discussion Karl-Otto Plum [5]
8. ↑ Graves of celebrities, Ohlsdorf cemetery
9. ^ Felix-Eberhard von Cube in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
10. ↑ https://www.tobias-broeker.de/rare-manuscripts/af/cube-felix-eberhard-von/
11. ↑ International music publishers Hans Sikorski [6]