Felix Raabe

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Felix Raabe (born July 26, 1900 in Amsterdam , † March 9, 1996 in Aachen ) was a German conductor and musicologist .

The son of the Aachen general music director and Nazi music functionary Peter Raabe and Zdenka Raabe, née Korab, passed the Abitur in 1919 at the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium , today's Goethe Gymnasium in Weimar . In 1919/20 he studied music in Leipzig (theory: Wittenbecher, piano: Weitzmann, musicology: Arnold Schering , Hermann Abert and others), in 1920 he switched to the Munich University of Music , where he studied theory with Geierhaas, piano with Grundis and Josef Pembaur, and musicology studied with Sandberger, Lorenz and others. The doctorate in 1926 with Adolf Sandberger was for the instrumental works of Baldassare Galuppi .

From 1926 to 1929 Raabe was director of the Municipal Singing Academy in Frankfurt an der Oder . In 1929/30 he was engaged in scientific work, especially at the Berlin State Library and the Liszt Museum in Weimar . In 1930/31 he studied with Felix Weingartner in Basel . In 1931/33 he was répétiteur in Wuppertal , in 1933/34 second conductor at the Hildesheim City Theater , and first conductor at the Altmärkisches Landestheater Stendal in 1934/35 . From 1935 to 1937 he carried out scientific and compositional activities. He has worked as a guest conductor in Munich , Bremen and Berlin, among others .

From 1937 to 1944 he was Kapellmeister at the Remscheid City Theater . In 1944 he became music director there. After military service and imprisonment, he worked from 1946 to October 1953 as general music director at the Aachen Theater. The educational music events he founded for all schools in the city were also in his hands.

Unlike his father, with whom he worked closely, Raabe was not a National Socialist. In the denazification he was classified as exonerated.

The high reputation he enjoyed in Aachen prompted the Faculty of General Sciences at RWTH Aachen University in 1948 to apply for a teaching position in music studies for him . The lectures, seasoned with musical rehearsals, were very well received. When he moved to Munich in 1959, this teaching activity ended on March 31, 1960. Raabe died very old in the Pope Johannes Stift in Aachen.

The book Lebendige Musik , a music pedagogical guide to listening to music, published by him in 1936 , was widely read.

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  1. ↑ The date of death according to http://www.aachen.de/DE/stadt_buerger/aachen_profil/chronik/pdfs_chronik/chronik1996.pdf

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SURNAME Raabe, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1996
Place of death Aachen