Fritz Egon Pamer

Fritz Egon Pamer , (born June 6, 1900 in Vienna ; † October 18, 1923 ibid) was an Austrian composer , author and musicologist.

Pamer was born in Vienna as the son of the future police chief Ignaz Pamer . At the age of 14 he began to compose self-taught. During the First World War , in which he only participated as a soldier in the last months of the war , he attended Arnold Schönberg's composition seminar for a short time . After the war he studied musicology at the University of Vienna at the Musicological Institute with Guido Adler and Hans Gál and wrote the article on the romantic song in the 19th century for the manual of musicology published by Adler . In addition, he directed the women's choir founded by Hermann Ritter von Schmeidel (1894–1953) and taught musical forms at the Urania in Vienna in 1921/22 .

In 1923, Pamer received his doctorate with a dissertation on Gustav Mahler's songs, the first scientific examination of Mahler's lieder. In the same year Pamer died by suicide on Dreimarkstein . He left behind more than 110 works, including numerous song cycles, a ballet (dedicated to the prima ballerina of the Vienna State Opera Else von Strohlendorf), two completed operas, symphonic poems, chamber music and numerous work sketches. His musical legacy is in the music collection of the Austrian National Library and the Vienna Library .

Works (selection)

• The fairy tale of the mermaid (chamber opera based on Hans Christian Andersen, text by the composer)
• Dance of Death (ballet, scenario by Fritz Egon Pamer and Else von Strohlendorf)
• A song of life (song cycle based on texts by Rabindranath Tagore)
• Chinese Intermezzo (song cycle based on texts by Chinese poets, transferred by Hans Bethge )
• Ghost Suite (for piano)
• The ride of the mourning robe (piano suite)
• Mass of the Sleeping (fragment)

literature

• Christian Baier : Fritz Egon Pamer. The musical oeuvre. A first sighting. 2 volumes, dissertation, University of Vienna, Vienna 1988.
• Commission for Music Research (Ed.): Austrian Music Lexicon . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 .
• U. Harten:  Pamer Fritz Egon. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 308.