Friedrich Zehm

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Friedrich Zehm (born January 22, 1923 in Neusalz / Oder ; † December 4, 2007 in Wiesbaden ) was a German composer .

Life

Friedrich Zehm, born on January 22nd, 1923 in Neusalz / Oder in Lower Silesia, received his first piano lessons in Stettin at the age of 8 from the composer Hansmaria Dombrowski . After the war he continued his studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Walther Lampe (piano) and Friedrich Frischenschlager (theory) with Harald Genzmer (composition) and Edith Picht-Axenfeld (piano) at the Freiburg Music Academy . From 1952 to 1956 he worked as a private music teacher, pianist and composer, from 1956 to 1963 as a music consultant in the Amerika-Haus in Freiburg and from 1963 to 1985 as a lecturer and editor at the music publisher B. Schott's Sons in Mainz. He died on December 4, 2007 in Wiesbaden.

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From the beginning of his composing career from around 1950 to 2007, Friedrich Zehm wrote around 200 works with chamber music at the center. In addition, the vocal music forms a further focus, especially the song or the song cycle. In addition, the catalog raisonné includes orchestral compositions, numerous concerts, piano, organ and harpsichord music, a smaller number of stage, radio play and film music, teaching literature as well as school orchestra works and compositions for amateur orchestras. Adaptations and international folklore, arranged for various ensembles, appeared under a pseudonym.

As a student of Harald Genzmer and in succession to Paul Hindemith , Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky , Zehm composed in an expanded tonality. His music does not exclude avant-garde elements, but always combines them with traditional design elements. Recurring compositional features include a. a formally clear and concise design using traditional forms (fugue, rondo, etc.), a catchy, concise and rhythmically profiled theme, a dance-like and vital rhythm. His compositions were characterized by a high presence on the stage and on the radio.

Selected Works

  • Allegro concertante for large orchestra (1959)
  • Lyric cantata based on words by Julius Bissier for baritone and orchestra (1964/65)
  • German Mass with standard songs for mixed choir, six brass instruments and community singing (1965)
  • Capriccio for percussion and chamber orchestra (1968)
  • Difficulties & Accidents with 1 chorale for a conductor and ten wind instruments (1974)
  • Rhapsodic Sonata for Violin and Piano (1982)
  • Divertimento armonico for accordion orchestra (1985)
  • Piano book for the young (1988)
  • Inventions for piano (2007)

literature

  • Heidrun Miller: Friedrich Zehm. Composer between tradition and modernity (= writings on musicology 8), Mainz 2003.
  • Heidrun Miller: On the chamber music of Friedrich Zehm , in: Kristin Pfarr, Karl Böhmer, Christoph-Hellmut Mahling (eds.), Part 1 Chamber music on the Rhine and Main. Part 2 Contributions to the history of the string quartet (= Engers Colloquia Castle for Chamber Music 4), Mainz 2007.

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personal data
SURNAME Zehm, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH New salt on the Oder
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 2007
Place of death Wiesbaden