Franz Ippisch

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Franz Ippisch

Franz Ippisch (born July 18, April 1, 1883 in Vienna , † February 20, 1958 in Guatemala City ) was an Austrian cellist and composer.

Life

Franz Ippisch was born the seventh of nine children of a judicial officer from an old Viennese family. As a child he sang in the church choir and learned to play the cello . At the age of 15 he played in the Bad Pirawarth spa orchestra and began his training at the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music in 1898 with Reinhold Hummer (violoncello), Josef Hoffmann (piano) and Hermann Graedener (composition). He took private lessons from Franz Schmidt . During his studies he already played as a cellist in the orchestra of the Volksoper Vienna , to which he was a solo cellist from 1903 to 1933, interrupted by military service and the First World War.

Ippisch also worked as a music teacher, composer and chamber musician. He was one of the founders of the Vienna Sedlak-Winkler Quartet. In 1934 he accepted the probably better paid position of a military bandmaster in Salzburg. After the Anschluss (Austria) in 1938 he and his family had to leave Austria because of his wife's Jewish origins. Previously, Ippisch had asked - apparently in vain - in a letter to Adolf Hitler that the “innocent disgrace of Jewish descent” of his wife, who had converted to Christianity , be “erased”. At the beginning of February 1939 he came to Guatemala , where he soon became director general of the police and military orchestras and conductor of the orchestra of the Conservatory in Guatemala City. At the Conservatory he taught conducting and composition and was director of the national symphony orchestra that emerged from the Conservatory. He became a leading figure in Guatemala's musical life. He taught and influenced many musicians, for example Manuel Alvarado, Rafael Juárez Castellanos, Joaquín Orellana , Benigno Mejía and Jorge Álvaro Sarmientos . In 1954 he had to retire due to illness.

Part of Franz Ippisch's estate was donated to the Vienna Library in 1963 by his son Franz J. Ippisch and is being viewed there by Gerald Schwertberger.

His cousin Rudolf Ippisch (1878–1953) was a pioneer of shipping on the Traunsee and the builder of the Feuerkogel cable car .

Works

“Ippisch comes from the late romantic period; blooming melos with a sometimes bitter, but always very lively voice and joy in sound are the main stylistic features of his works, which continue the Viennese musical tradition without breaking new ground. "(Hans Jancik, MGG)

Orchestral works

  • 1st symphony (1926)
  • 2nd symphony (1934)
  • 3. Sinfonia Guatemalteca ; with Guatemalan melodies in the finale (1941)
  • 4th symphony (1946)
  • Sinfonietta (1951)
as well as edits

Concerts

  • Two violin concertos (1913 and 1943)
  • Piano concerto
  • Violoncello concert

Chamber music

  • String Sextet (1922)
  • String Quintet (1922)
  • Wind quintet (1926)
  • Clarinet Quintet (1942)
  • Piano quintet (1943)
  • 13 string quartets (between 1904 and 1946)

Vocal music

  • German Mass for Solos, Mixed Choir and Orchestra (1928)
  • Te deum for solos, mixed choir and orchestra (1942)

Awards

literature

  • Henrik Eberle, letters to Hitler. A people writes to its leader. Unknown documents from Moscow archives - published for the first time, Gustav Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, pp. 237–239.
  • Miguel Fischer, John M. Furman, Martha Furman-Schleifer (Eds.): Latin American Classical Composers. A biographical dictionary . Scarecrow Press Inc., Lanham, Md 1996.
  • Hans Jancik: Franz Ippisch . In: Music in the past and present . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1957, (Volume 6), p. 1396 f.
  • Barbara Boisits, Monika Kornberger: Ippisch Franz Karl. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
  • Walter Pass , Gerhard Scheit , Wilhelm Svoboda : Orpheus in exile. The expulsion of Austrian music 1938–1945 . Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85115-200-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ New street names ( Memento from March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Ippisch, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cellist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1958
Place of death Guatemala City