Franz von Hoeßlin

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Franz von Hoeßlin (1919)
Franz von Hoeßlin

Franz Johannes Balthasar von Hoeßlin , also Franz von Hoesslin (born December 31, 1885 in Munich , † September 25, 1946 with Sète ) was a German conductor and composer.

Life

origin

Franz von Hoeßlin was the second child of Dr. med. Gustav von Hößlin and Maria Magdalena Auguste Rüdinger. He came from the noble family von Hößlin .

career

After graduating from high school at the humanistic Royal Theresien Gymnasium in Munich (1904), Franz von Hoeßlin studied music in Munich . From 1903 to 1907 he studied composition with Max Reger , conducting with Felix Mottl , piano with Walter Braunfels and violin with Felix Berber .

From 1907 to 1911 v. Hoeßlin Theater Kapellmeister in Danzig and St. Gallen . 1911/12 he spent half study in the educational institution of Jaques-Dalcroze in Hellerau . From 1911 until the First World War , at the end of which he was to have the rank of officer , he was the conductor of the Riga Symphony Orchestra in Riga .

After he had great success in June 1919 on the occasion of the “Modern Music Festival”, he began in October of that year as the conductor of the concerts of the “Verein der Musikfreunde” orchestra in Lübeck, which belongs to the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities .

He then continued his career at the Bayreuth Festival as an interpreter of the ring tetralogy in 1927, 1928, 1940. In 1934, 1938 and 1939 he conducted Parsifal there . He also directed concerts and operas in almost all music centers in Germany, and was a guest at the Berlin State Opera and the Berlin Philharmonic on several occasions .

From 1923 he was orchestra director of the theater in the Hochfürstliche Reitbahn in Dessau . From 1926 to 1932 he was general music director of the city of Wuppertal . In 1932 he moved to Breslau , where he also taught at the conservatory. His students included u. a. Günter Wand , Franz Pabel and Heinz Schubert .

As v. Hoeßlin had his orchestra play the Horst-Wessel-Lied during a state act in June 1936 without his participation, he was fired without notice. With the termination he was asked to leave Wroclaw within 28 days. On June 26, 1936, he performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as a farewell concert in front of a packed house .

Franz von Hoeßlin missed the airliner from Barcelona to Geneva in 1946 , where he was supposed to conduct “ Così fan tutte ” that evening . So he took a private plane, which crashed into the sea near Sète . Franz and his wife Erna died in the process.

family

Hoeßlin's second wife, the Jewish alto Erna Liebenthal, was initially prevented from practicing her profession after 1933, and the couple came under increasing pressure from the National Socialist cultural politicians.

During his farewell concert in Breslau “the conductor was repeatedly given long-lasting ovations. When the concert was over, the lights, except for the emergency lights, were turned off to encourage the audience to leave the hall more quickly. But ... Hesslin [sic] was called out again and again ...: 'Hesslin come back.' A party body meeting was held in the same house. The participants, attracted by the noise in the concert hall, went to the gallery to have a look. One of these Nazis shouted: 'Jewish heretics'. Now an indescribable commotion set in. 'Ugh', 'Get out', 'Unflätiger Lümmel' etc. were called out. … Hesslin… asked what was going on. It was replied to him that he should note that he would not be offended. Hesslin gave a short speech, ... everyone should part as friends, and especially become friends again. The audience stayed in the hall for a long time, then Hesslin was carried through the city to the Hotel Monopol. In front of the hotel the ovations and the shouts were repeated: 'Hesslin come back.' … His car had to leave behind empty. ”That same night Hoeßlin brought his wife to Florence .

An attempt v. Hoeßlin's attempt to enable her to return via an “exemption request” failed in 1939. Erna von Hoeßlin stayed in Italy until the end of World War II and was the only one of the three siblings in her family to survive the Nazi mass murder.

Hoeßlin himself was supported by his friend Winifred Wagner , who invited him to conduct several concerts at the Bayreuth Festival. He was also able to make guest appearances in other European countries, for example in Amsterdam, London, Stockholm and the Hague. The French music magazine Le Courier Musical paid tribute to his achievements with the words " one of the greatest masters of the baton, perhaps the greatest living next to Toscanini ".

plant

Franz von Hoeßlin not only promoted contemporary music as an interpreter, but also composed himself. He created chamber music and orchestral works as well as various song cycles, of which the youngest sonnets by a Greek woman based on texts by Eckart Peterich was premiered in Cologne in November 1942. In their harmonious, richly structured typesetting and their rejection of the illustrative, Hoeßlin's works represent the principle of a new and original inwardness.

literature

swell

  • Genealogical private archive v. Hoesslin
  • Franz von Hoeßlin, conductor of the orchestra of the Verein der Musikfreunde. In: Father-city sheets . Born 1919, No. 1, issue of October 12, 1919.

Web links

Commons : Franz von Hoeßlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Franz Balthasar Johannes von Hößlin" , geneal.net
  2. ↑

    “The association appointed the concert conductor and from then on Lübeck became a springboard for young talents . On Ugo Afferni followed Hermann Abendroth , Wilhelm Furtwängler , who with Gustav Mahler befriended George Göhler and afterwards became Bayreuth -Dirigent Franz von Hoesslin, Karl Mannstaedt, Edwin Fischer , Eugen Jochum , Ludwig Leschetitzki and Heinz Dressel . "

    - Moving orchestral history by Günter Zschacke , In: Die Tonkunst , October 2013, No. 4, vol. 7 (2013), ISSN  1863-3536 , p. 498
  3. ↑ Klaus Behnken (Ed.): Germany reports of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sopade) . Fourth year 1936, Frankfurt a. M. 1980 - August 1936, A26f.
  4. ^ John M. Steiner / Jobst Freiherr von Cornberg: Arbitrariness in the arbitrariness. Liberations from the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws, 1998 in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 46 volume, 1998 pp. 143–187 / 151 ( PDF ).
personal data
SURNAME Hoeßlin, Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoeßlin, Franz Johannes Balthasar von (full name); Hoesslin, Franz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1946
Place of death at Sète