Georg Gräner

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Georg Gräner (born November 20, 1876 in Berlin , † April 30, 1945 in Potsdam ) was a German composer and music critic .

Life

Gräner studied composition and horn in Berlin. From 1899 to 1906 he worked as a musician and music correspondent for the Vossische Zeitung in London, then until 1914 as a music consultant. In 1920 he switched to the German Musician Newspaper , which went down in 1933. From 1930 until his death he taught harmony and piano at the Stern Conservatory (renamed the Conservatory of the Reich Capital Berlin in 1936 ).

As a composer Georg Gräner was in the tradition of Anton Bruckner . As a publicist, he was one of the first to advocate the works of Max Reger . He also became known with a biography of his cousin Paul Graener published in 1922 , which he had written without his knowledge. Paul Graener was dissatisfied with this; Nevertheless, the two worked together in the period that followed: Georg Gräner wrote the libretto for Paul Graener's opera Hanneles Himmelfahrt (1927), based on the play of the same name by Gerhart Hauptmann .

Like his cousin, Georg Gräner also turned to National Socialism and wrote propaganda articles such as German and un-German music .

Works

Compositions

  • 12 Christmas carols for voice and piano (or string quartet)
  • The coming empire , symphony for solos, mixed choir, orchestra and organ
  • Symphony No. 1 Resurrection in One Movement
  • Symphony No. 2 in one movement Sinfonia patetica
  • Symphony No. 3
  • Ibsengesänge for baritone and small orchestra
  • Legend for chamber orchestra
  • Variations for large orchestra

libretto

literature

  • Wilibald Gurlitt (editor): Riemann Musik-Lexikon, person part A – K, Mainz 1959, B. Schott's sons, page 664, article "Gräner Georg"

Individual evidence

  1. ^ K. Andreas: Paul Graener (1872-1944) , thesis musicology, University of Potsdam
  2. ^ Josef Wulf: Music in the Third Reich , Reinbek 1966
personal data
SURNAME Gräner, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1945
Place of death Potsdam