Gustav Geierhaas

Gustav Geierhaas (born March 26, 1888 in Neckarhausen , † January 5, 1976 in Munich ) was a German composer .

life and work

Geierhaas studied at the University of Heidelberg and took counterpoint lessons from Philipp Wolfrum . From 1913 to 1915 he was a student at the Academy of Music in Munich, where he taught from 1920 to 1953.

He composed, among other things, variations and a symphonic music for orchestra, a string symphony and chamber music works. His organ works are regarded as his most important compositions, especially Passacaglia in C sharp minor, op. 5 (CF Peters) and Introduction, Choral Fantasy and Fugue In the midst of life we ​​are surrounded by death (Tischer & Jagenberg).

Works

Orchestral music

• Variations on an own theme (1927, premier Munich 1928, sheet music burned in World War II)
• Symphonic music in 3 movements (1936, premiere Frankfurt / Main 1937)
• Symphony for string orchestra (partial revision of the string quartet No. 3, 1952, premiered at Bayerischer Rundfunk Munich 1954)

Chamber music

• Sonata for piano and violin in E flat minor (1914, WP Munich 1915)
• Theme with variations in B flat major for string quartet (1919)
• String Sextet in D minor (1920, premiere Munich 1921)
• Three movements for string trio (1923, premiered Munich 1925)
• String Quartet No. 1 in G major (1923, WP Munich 1924)
• String Quartet No. 2 in C major (1926, WP Munich 1927)
• String Quartet No. 3 in D minor (1930, premiered Bremen 1931)
• Sonata for piano and violin in E minor (1958, premiere Munich 1960)

Organ music

• 2 sonatas (1911, lost)
• Passacaglia in c sharp minor (1919, premier Munich 1920)
• Choral fantasy about the middle of life we ​​are surrounded by death (1925, premiere Munich 1926)
• Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major (1929, WP Munich 1929)
• Choral Suite (1930)
• Phantasy and Fugato capriccioso in B minor (1948, premiere Munich 1958)
• 3 chorale preludes (1951/53)

Piano music

• 3 grooves (1909)
• Fugue for 2 pianos (1915)
• Sonatina in A major (alternative title: Three Piano Pieces, 1914, premiere Munich 1916)
• Sonata in G minor (1919)

Choral music

• Christmas cantata for choir, 2 violins and violoncello (1945, premiere Munich 1945)
• Cantata for the harvest festival for solos, choir, 2 violins and violoncello (1946, premiered Munich 1946)
• Advent cantata (1947, premier Munich 1947)
• Self-feeling for male choir a cappella (1955)

Singing and organ

• Mass for 2-3 boys' voices and organ (1910)

Singing and piano

• 22 songs (1910-1913)
• Four songs based on poems by Theodor Storm (1913)
• Five (love) songs based on poems by Heine , Goll and Bewer for bass (1926)
• Three chants based on poems by Viktor Hartung for deep voice (1926, No. 2 lost)
• Youth in old age after Hans Bethge for bass-baritone (1948)

Revisions

Organ works

Toccata, Adagio and Fuge (Ed. Gerhard Weinberger) (Strube-Verlag, Munich 2006)

Fantasy and Fugato capriccioso (Ed. Gerhard Weinberger) (Sonat-Verlag, Kleinmachnow 2017)

Choral Suite (Ed. Gerhard Weinberger) (Sonat-Verlag, Kleinmachnow 2017)

Passacaglia op.5 (Ed. Gerhard Weinberger) (Sonat-Verlag, Kleinmachnow 2019)

Three chorale preludes (Ed. Gerhard Weinberger) (Music Edition Récit, Straubing 2018)

Awards

Geierhaas was awarded the Munich Music Prize in 1930 and the Bavarian Order of Merit on May 17, 1963 . He was an honorary member of the State University of Music.

literature

• W. u. P. Geierhaas: Gustav Geierhaas (composers in Bavaria; vol. 43). Schneider, Tutzing 2004, ISBN 3-7952-1157-3 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

• Literature by and about Gustav Geierhaas in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gustav Geierhaas in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)