Fred Malige

Alfred Malige (born January 11, 1895 in Oels , † December 21, 1985 in Leipzig ) was a German violinist and composer .

Life

Fred Malige studied in Breslau and after the First World War at the Leipzig Conservatory . He had been a member of the KPD since 1923 and in the 1920s he founded a brass band of the Red Front Fighter League , which he directed and for which he composed marches and songs . As a member of the board of the German Musicians' Association , he campaigned for the artistic and economic interests of orchestral musicians . His political activities led in 1933 to immediate dismissal and persecution by the Nazis . After unemployment and activity as a dance and entertainment musician , he was Kapellmeister at the Katowice Opera House from 1940 . On May 21, 1943 he played with this orchestra in Auschwitz concentration camp . From 1946 to 1960 he was a violinist in the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra , of which he was one of the founders. In 1950 (1952) Malige composed Prelude and Fugue on F – D – G – B , the premiere of which the Berliner Rundfunk Orchestra refused to perform for artistic reasons. From 1960 he lived as a freelance composer in Leipzig, most recently in a nursing home. In 1965 Malige received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

Parts of his estate are kept in the Leipzig City Archives and in the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library.

Works (selection)

Instrumental music

Orchestral music

• 4 overtures on FDJ songs , 1949
• Concerto in B flat major for accordion and orchestra , 1949
• Friendship , 1950
• Prelude and Fugue on F – D – G – B , 1950
• German – Polish friendship , 1951
• For peace in the world , 1961
• Festive music , 1954
• Concerto for viola and orchestra , 1954
• Markkleeberger Serenade , 1954
• 2 symphonies , 1964, 1969

Chamber music

• 5 string quartets , 1954, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1973
• 3 miniatures for string trio , 1956
• 4 wind quintets , 1957, 1964, 1968, 1972
• Variations on " Brothers, to the Sun, to Freedom " for string quartet, 1959
• 3 performance pieces for trombone and piano , 1970
• Sonata recitativo for violin and viola , 1970
• Studies for 2 violins, 1973
• Small concerto for double bass , 1979
• Quartet in three movements for 4 French horns , 1953
• French horn quartet No. 2 using well-known hunting signals , 1984

Piano music

• Studies in the style of old dance forms for 2 pianos, 1972

Vocal music

• Cantata of the Republic , 1950
• Lenin Cantata , 1952
• Leipziger Messe history object , oratorio for soloists, narrator, choir and orchestra, 1960

literature

• Composers and musicologists of the German Democratic Republic. Short biographies and catalogs of works . Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin 1966, p. 240.
• Horst Seeger : music lexicon persons A-Z . Deutscher Verlag für Musik , Leipzig (1981), p. 486 ff.
• Biographies, catalog raisonnés, bibliographies of members and candidates . Ed .: Association of composers and musicologists of the GDR district of Leipzig. Leipzig 1989.

Web links

• Works by and about Fred Malige in the catalog of the German National Library
• Fred Malige's estate in the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Horst Seeger : Musiklexikon Personen A – Z , Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig (1981), p. 486 ff.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Klee, Happy Hours in Auschwitz - How German Artists kept their murdering compatriots in occupied Poland happy (PDF; 1.1 MB) in Auschwitz camp community - Auschwitz Friends' Circle , Volume 27, Issue 1 Bulletin, June 2007, Page 16 ff.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Holdings and partial holdings of the Leipzig City Archives ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF file; 625 kB), 2.4.1.5 Estate of Alfred (Fred) Malige - NL Malige, page 103 
4. ↑ Eberhard Lämmert, The Narrative Dimension - A Commonality of the Arts , Akademie Verlag 1999, page 311, ISBN 3-05-003304-5
5. ↑ Bundesstiftung Aufverarbeitung ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Calendar - April 27th 
6. ↑ Barbara Steingiesser, The Age in Art  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Rheinische Post -Online, February 23, 2007  
7. ^ New Germany , March 25, 1965, p. 2
8. ↑ Calliope | Union catalog for archival and archive-like stocks and national documentation instrument for personal papers and autographs. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .