Fritz Brandt (composer)

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Fritz Brandt (born January 24, 1880 in Magdeburg , † January 29, 1949 in Düsseldorf ) was a German lawyer and composer.

Life

Fritz Brandt received his first music lessons from his parents. Adolph Brandt (1838–1919) was the organist of the Magdeburg Katharinenkirche , his wife Hedwig Scheuerlein (1843–1927) had soprano at the Cologne Opera since 1867 and sang the leading roles of the opera as well as works by Max Bruch . At the urging of his parents, Fritz Brandt studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau , Halle and Berlin , despite his musical inclination and his first compositional experience . In close friendship with Julius Weismann of the same age , he continued to devote himself to musical studies, including with Max Bruch in Berlin.

Brandt received his doctorate in 1906 and passed the second state examination in law in 1908. He began as an assessor in Magdeburg and came to Duisburg as a district judge in 1914 . When war broke out, he was drafted and deployed in occupied Belgium . At the same time he founded a German symphony orchestra together with Fritz Volbach under the occupation in Brussels . At the end of the war he returned to Duisburg. He married Dora Bosse, with whom he had the daughter Silvia in 1920. In 1921 he was appointed to the Senate for Patent Matters, Copyright and Competition Law at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court. Brandt was still President of the Senate in Düsseldorf.

The world premiere of Mistral based on a text by Friedrich Nietzsche for baritone and orchestra in Magdeburg can be traced back to 1913, and the string quartet op.15 at the Tonkünstlerfest of the Allgemeine Deutsche Musikverein (AdMV) in Nuremberg in 1921 . In the millennium of the Rhineland in 1925 conducted Georg Schnéevoigt op's Piano Concerto 19. After the Second World War he received from the artist Malkasten a commission for the celebration for the 100th anniversary. Brandt recorded 43 opus numbers, including four string quartets and two symphonies.

In the 1920s, Brandt stood up for contemporary music on the board of directors of the Düsseldorf Musikverein . During the unification negotiations in 1926 between the German Sound Composers' Cooperative and what was then GEMA , he was used as an impartial arbitrator with legal expertise.

Fonts

  • How is a composition created? Lecture at the Rotary Club in Düsseldorf on December 9, 1935. Düsseldorf 1936

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich Kämper: Hedwig Brandt-Scheuerlein , in: Karl Gustav Fellerer (Ed.): Rheinische Musik. 5th episode . A. Volk, Cologne 1967, pp. 29-30
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Dietrich Kämper: Fritz Brandt , 1967
  3. ↑ a b From the correspondence of the Royal Music Director Adolf Brandt (1838–1919) in Magdeburg and his son, the Düsseldorf composer and lawyer Fritz Brandt (1880–1949) ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der 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. , at Musikantiquariat Ulrich Drüner , accessed on February 27, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musik-druener.de
  4. ^ Message of death , in Die Zeit , issue 16, 1949
personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1949
Place of death Dusseldorf