Franz Crzellitzer

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Franz Crzellitzer (born November 1, 1905 in Berlin , † January 28, 1979 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli composer from Germany.

Life

Crzellitzer was the oldest child of the architect Fritz Crzellitzer (1876–1942) and Martha Schoenflies (1877–1946). His siblings were Robert (1907–1940) and Hedwig (1909–1953). The genealogist Arthur Czellitzer was her second uncle, and among her maternal cousins ​​were the poet Gertrud Kolmar , the literary scholar Walter and the doctor and resistance fighter Georg Benjamin (→ families Schoenflies and Hirschfeld ).

All five Crzellitzers were artistically and musically gifted, played music together and performed at family celebrations, among other things. Fritz played the piano and composed, Martha had at times aspired to a career as an opera singer, Robert played the cello. Before starting school, the children received private tuition together with the later architectural historian Julius Posener (1904–1996), the son of the family-friendly painter Moritz Posener.

Franz studied at the State Academic University of Music a . a. Clarinet. He intended to become Kapellmeister and worked as a répétiteur in the Neustrelitz theater . There he was after the seizure of power released by the Nazis in 1933 as a Jew. He then did an apprenticeship as a construction plumber and emigrated to Tel Aviv in 1934, where he married in 1939. Robert studied engineering in Berlin. He married on March 31, 1933 in Berlin, and shortly afterwards emigrated to Italy, where he found a job at the Olivetti company in Ivrea . There he invented a new drilling technique. Hedwig first emigrated to Paris in April 1933 after completing an apprenticeship as a fashion draftsman and commercial artist. From there, after bad experiences with hostile competitors, she moved to Milan, where she also worked as a draftsman. At the end of 1936 she married the radio editor of German descent Vittorio Cramer (born 1907), with whom she moved to Rome in 1939, where he had been transferred. The parents received permission to leave their daughter in Rome in the summer of 1939, but a few days after their arrival all immigrant Jews were expelled. Because of Fritz's heart failure, the Italian residence permit was extended twice. In 1939 Robert found work in Brussels. As a result of the German campaign in the west in May 1940, he had to flee and was killed in a bomb attack in France. He left behind his wife and two sons. The parents had also emigrated to Franz in Tel Aviv in March 1940.

Compositions

Most of Franz Crzellitzer's compositions were premiered in Israel. The cellist Simca Heled and the pianist Jonathan Zak recorded his Small Suite from 1971 for the record Israeli Trios & Duos (Romeo, 2005). Crzellitzer was assigned to the "avant-garde wing of the composers in Israel", but characterized as a "very conservative composer". Franz Crzellitzer's estate is kept in the Archive of Israeli Music at Tel Aviv University .

Works

Compositions

  • Character march for orchestra (1939)
  • 2 symphonies without opus number (1941, 1970)
  • The Pied Piper of Hameln, ballet pantomime (1944)
  • 2 sonatas for violin and piano (1948)
  • Piano quintet (1949)
  • Piano Concerto (1950)
  • 2 suites for string orchestra (1952, 1968)
  • 2 string quartets (1954, 1963)
  • 2 Symphonic Fantasies for orchestra (1958, 1959)
  • Fantasy for violin and orchestra (1960)
  • Fantasy for cello and orchestra (1962)
  • Concerto for two pianos (1966)
  • Viola Concerto (1967)
  • Trumpet Concerto (1967)
  • Piano Trio (1968)
  • Small suite for cello and piano (1971)
  • Passacaglia for organ (1972)

Release

  • Fritz Crzellitzer: Twenty-one songs. Middle register , for voice and piano, Tel Aviv 11970, Robert Forberg, Bonn 1975

literature

  • Arthur Czellitzer : History of my family , Tilburg 1942, digital version at the Leo Baeck Institute, (PDF download, 113.572 MB), pp. 41–43
  • Max Brod, Yehuda Walter Cohen: The Music of Israel , Bärenreiter, Kassel a. a. 1976, p. 95
  • Habakuk Traber, Elmar Weingarten (ed.): Displaced music. Berlin composers in exile , Argon, Berlin 1987, p. 226

Web links

  • Franz Crzellitzer , Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era, Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelo Bolaffi: Ebrei erranti in Italia ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (1 page pdf), L'Unita, January 27, 1991, page 19 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiviostorico.unita.it
  2. ↑ H. Traber, E. Weingarten (Ed.): Displaced music. Berlin composers in exile , Berlin 1987, p. 226
  3. ↑ Andor Izsák (Ed.): Documentation for the exhibition Nobody Wanted To Hear Me ... Magrepha, the organ in the synagogue , main band, Hanover 1999, European Center for Jewish Music, p. 211
personal data
SURNAME Crzellitzer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1979
Place of death Tel Aviv