Franz Mikorey (composer)

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Franz Mikorey

Franz Mikorey (born June 3, 1873 in Munich , † May 11, 1947 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German conductor , pianist, composer and general music director .

Life

He was the son of the opera tenor and Wagnerian singer Max Mikorey (1850–1907) and his Munich-born wife Angelika, née Müller (1847–1927). After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1892 , he studied philology and composition with Ludwig Thuille , piano with Louis Blumschein and Heinrich Schwartz , conducting with Hermann Levi and music theory with Heinrich von Herzogenberg . During his studies he became a member of the Academic Choral Society in Munich .

In 1894 he was Hermann Levi's assistant at the Wagner performances in Bayreuth and then répétiteur and stage conductor at the Munich Court Theater. From 1896 to 1898 he worked as the third and second conductor at the German Theater in Prague under Angelo Neumann , where he premiered the first set in March 1897 voyage of his great symphony on the Adriatic conducted from the manuscript, starting in October 1898 as the first conductor at the City Theater Regensburg and in 1899 at the Stadttheater in Cologne. From 1900 to 1901 he was employed as Kapellmeister at the Elberfeld City Theater . He then received a six-year contract at the Vienna Court Opera under Gustav Mahler . This contract was canceled by Mikorey due to non-employment. On October 20, 1902, he succeeded the late August Klughardt as court music director and general music director of the Dessau court opera, after convincing guests with rehearsal and guest conductors at Lohengrin , Fra Diavolo and Figaro's wedding .

In 1909 Mikorey appeared as a guest conductor at the Berlin Kroll Opera , in 1910 he conducted the festival performance of the Magic Flute in Salzburg and the Wagner Festival in Halle an der Saale , in 1912 the Wagner Festival in Budapest and in 1913 the German Music Festival in Berlin. In 1918 he conducted a charity concert in the Prinzregententheater in Munich and was the artistic director of the festival organized by the Dessau Court Opera in Bucharest , which was occupied by German troops .

His 16 years in Dessau ended with a scandal . After severe criticism of his management style by theater workers, Mikorey resigned on November 18, 1918. A compromise that would have allowed him to continue his work until the end of June 1919 failed due to the unanimous vote of no confidence of the employees. To hold office until his successor Hans Kempe led Albert Bing , who since 1915 first Kapellmeister in Dessau was the orchestra.

From 1919 to 1924 Mikorey was Kapellmeister at the State Opera in Helsingfors , then until 1928 General Music Director in Braunschweig. In 1925 he directed the opera Admeto by Georg Friedrich Handel , which was to be heard again after a break of 170 years. From 1929 he lived as a freelance artist in Munich and Garmisch .

Franz Mikorey was buried in a family grave in the Garmisch cemetery in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

marriage and family

Mikorey was married to Josefine, geb. Rath, daughter of the Munich jeweler and purveyor to the royal Bavarian court Peter Rath (1846–1922), with whom he had four children, including the psychiatrist Max Mikorey (born 1899), the bandmaster Hans Mikorey (born 1905) and the sculptor Franz Mikorey . (born 1907).

Works

His compositions include the incidental music Phryne (1908), the operas The King of Samarkand with a libretto based on Franz Grillparzer (1910) and Das Echo von Wilhelmsthal (1928), as well as chamber music, songs and choral music. His orchestral works include three symphonies and two piano concertos .

Fonts

  • Franz Mikorey: Basics of a conducting apprenticeship. Reflections on the technique and poetry of modern orchestral conducting . Kahnt, Leipzig 1917, DNB  361233019 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hans-Michael Körner (Hrsg.): Large Bavarian biographical encyclopedia . Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11730-2 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ a b Andreas Michael Weidmann: Professor Dr. med. Max Mikorey (1899-1977). Life and work of a psychiatrist at the Psychiatric and Mental Clinic of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Dissertation for obtaining the degree of doctor of medicine. Munich 2006, p. 14 ( tum.de [PDF; 2.7 MB ; accessed on October 9, 2013]).
  3. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1891/92
  4. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book. Membership directory of all old men. As of October 1, 1937. Hanover 1937, p. 167.
  5. ↑ Münchener Allgemeine Zeitung, March 23, 1897
  6. ↑ Chronicle. 1902. (No longer available online.) In: Gedenkkultur in Dessau-Rosslau. Kiez e. V. Dessau, archived from the original on June 10, 2015 ; accessed on October 9, 2013 : “1. October: Franz Mikorey conducted for the opening of the 1902/03 season “ 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@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gedenkkultur-dessau-rosslau.de
  7. ↑ Chronicle. 1918. (No longer available online.) In: Gedenkkultur in Dessau-Rosslau. Archived from the original on June 10, 2015 ; accessed on October 9, 2013 : “18. November: General Music Director Prof. Franz Mikorey resigns from his position. “ 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gedenkkultur-dessau-rosslau.de
  8. ↑ a b Lys Symonette, Elmar Juchem (Ed.): Letters to the Family (1914-1950) (=  publications of the Kurt Weill Society . Volume 3 ). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-476-45244-1 , p. 214 ( books.google.de ).
  9. ↑ Anita Karl: Kurt Weill. In: Jewish history and culture. Lessing-Gymnasium Döbeln, accessed on October 9, 2013 : "He received the first real impetus for his interest in composing from Albert Bing, who was appointed opera conductor at the court theater in 1915."
personal data
SURNAME Mikorey, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, pianist, composer and general music director
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1947
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen