Gottfried Huppertz

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Gottfried Huppertz (born March 11, 1887 in Cologne , † February 7, 1937 in Berlin ) was a German composer, singer, actor and conductor.

Life

Huppertz studied music at the Cologne Conservatory and worked as a singer and actor in Coburg during the First World War , where he made his debut in 1910. In 1920 he came to Berlin as an operetta singer at the Theater am Nollendorfplatz .

He dedicated his first composition Rankende Rosen to the actor Rudolf Klein-Rogge , who introduced him to the director Fritz Lang and the author Thea von Harbou , who at the time was still married to Klein-Rogge, in the early 1920s . In his film Dr. Mabuse, the player (1922) worked as an extra to Huppertz in the role of Hull's friend.

Huppertz then composed his first film music for Lang's film Die Nibelungen (1924) . While his music for the film Zur Chronik von Grieshuus was published in 1925 , Huppertz was already working on another piece of music for Fritz Lang, for the film Metropolis (1927), which became his best-known film music.

In addition to film music, Huppertz also wrote songs and arranged works by other composers for salon orchestras. Little of his music was released on sound carriers, for example the theme music for the first Karl May sound film Through the Desert (1936) in the Karl May film music collection box Wild West, Hot Orient . He was a member of the Berlin Masonic Lodge Prometheus .

Filmography

Works

  • "Rankende Rosen" (text and music), 1905
  • “Marias Wiegenlied” (from: Des Knaben Wunderhorn ), Op. 12; (Music by Gottfried Huppertz)
  • “Meereslied”, music for Alexander Adolfi's fairy tale play of the same name, Op. 18, 1918
  • “Sylph: scherzo capriccioso”, Op. 31, 1928
  • “Extase phantastique” (also: Misterioso fantastico), January 1929
  • "Grotesque" (Danse grotesque)
  • “New Love - New Life”, Werk 45, Waltz, 1935.
  • "A kiss is wonderful", Foxtrot from the Ufa sound film "The Green Domino"
  • "Die Nibelungen", fantasy from the music for the film of the same name for piano for two hands, Three Masks = Verlag A. = G., Berlin - Munich - Vienna. Copyright 1924 by Decla-Bioscop AG. Berlin.

Sound carrier

  • 1924 - Shellac record from the opera “Verliebte Menschen”, Huppertz as singer on pages 1 and 2, VOX records no. 04023
  • 1927 - “To the film Metropolis”, on page 2 excerpts from the Huppertz film music, VOX records, No. 08386 and 8387
  • 2011 - "Metropolis", Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, RSO Berlin, Frank Strobel, Capriccio, 1 CD
  • 2015 - “Die Nibelungen”, The Complete Original Motion Picture Score, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Frank Strobel, Pan classics, 4 CD
  • 2016 - "Zur Chronik von Grieshuus", The Complete Original Motion Picture Score, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Frank Strobel, Pan classics, 2 CD
  • 2018 - "Metropolis", The Complete Original Motion Picture Score, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Frank Strobel, Pan classics, 2 CD

Documents

Letters and music from Gottfried Huppertz are in the holdings of 21070 CF Peters, Leipzig in the Leipzig State Archives .

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personal data
SURNAME Huppertz, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1937
Place of death Berlin