Franz Leo Human

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Franz Leo Human (born October 19, 1894 in Vienna ; † 1957 ) was an Austrian composer , choir conductor and music teacher.

Human worked in Vienna as the conductor of the Simmeringer men's choir and music teacher at the teacher training institute in Vienna's Hegelgasse . Together with Erwin Leuchter he composed the music for Robert Ehrenzweig's Das Große Festspiel , which was performed for the opening of the 2nd Workers' Olympics in Vienna in 1931. At the same time he published a folk song collection with Viktor Korda , which was published by the Austrian Workers' Association.

In 1944 Human was drafted into military service. After his return from captivity, he came to Weitra. Here he directed a children's choir, worked as a cantor and organist and founded the city music school with his wife Karoline in 1949. His children's opera Die Stadt was premiered in 1948 in the Weitraer Schlosstheater. The catalog raisonné of Humans comprises one hundred compositions, including many songs and choral works.

Works

  • The Great Festival (with Erwin Leuchter, text: Robert Ehrenzweig), 1930
  • Singing youth. A collection of folk songs in polyphonic arrangement, partly with the use of melody instruments, published by the Austrian Workers' Singing Association (with Viktor Korda, 1928)
  • Mother, how beautiful you are for a women's choir, WP 1945
  • Home for choir
  • Weitraer moments musicaux
  • Silent action
  • Song of women
  • Evening music, small choir cantata with instruments based on folk songs and folk songs for mixed choir with piano accompaniment, violin, viola, cello, clear. in Bb and horn in F
  • O du schiane süaßi nightingale for choir, 1950
  • A short story based on Christian Morgenstern for five mixed voices a cappella
  • It was late in the evening
  • Three songs by Wilhelm Szabo
  • Kuenringer - March

literature

  • Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann: Concise Tonkünstler Lexicon . Gustave Bosse, Regensburg 1936.

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personal data
SURNAME Human, Franz Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1957