Guido Masanetz

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Guido Masanetz (right) with Ottmar Gerster (1952)

Guido Masanetz (born May 17, 1914 in Friedeck , Austrian Silesia , Austria-Hungary ; † November 5, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German music director, composer and bandmaster.

Life

Masanetz was one of the most important and successful musicians in the former GDR.
He came from a family who enjoyed playing music and received lessons in piano and music theory from the age of eight. Soon his professional goal as a concert pianist was set. After primary school in Friedeck and grammar school in Mährisch Ostrau , he received training at the municipal music school in Mährisch Schönberg . During his military service with the 35th Infantry Regiment of the Czechoslovak Army in Pilsen , he was able to continue his training in music theory and composition with Josef Bartovský .

However, the focus of his work soon formed the activity as Kapellmeister and composition. In 1938/1939 he was engaged as a ballet repetitor at the then German Brno City Theater , where his operetta Barbara was first performed in 1941 . From 1940 he worked in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia as a concert pianist at the Brno broadcaster and as a censorship officer before he was drafted into the 172nd Infantry Regiment of the Wehrmacht in Bautzen in 1941, where he mainly worked as a military musician.

After the Second World War and the time he was a prisoner of war, he worked from 1945 to 1949 as Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater Zittau and as a lecturer in music theory at the Johanneum . From 1951 to 1955 he was musical director of the state folk art ensemble of the GDR in Berlin. Then Masanetz worked until 1960 as a secretary for light music at the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR . From 1962 to 1966 he was the music dramaturge at the “ Lied der Zeit ” publishing house before becoming a freelance pianist, composer and conductor. For over three decades he worked as a conductor at the Metropol-Theater Berlin , where he also directed the world premieres of his works.

Masanetz composed numerous songs, hits, operettas, musicals and film scores, especially for fairy tale films. He created the longstanding successful musical In Frisco the devil is loose . He wrote the famous songs Bunte Lampions (1946 for Rudi Schuricke ) and 1962 Seemann have you forgotten me? .
In 2005 he was awarded the honorary title "Music Director" by Manfred Stolpe at the Elbland Festival in Wittenberge .

His artistic credo was always "... the strengthening and exhaustion of the diversity of the harmonic melody".

The composer was married to Sybille for the fourth time since 1986. He died on November 5, 2015 at the age of 101 in Berlin. The widow gave part of the estate to the German Musical Archives as a gift.  

Works

Operas

  • The Wonder Bird , an opera based on a Chinese story. Text by Paul G. Reime. Music by Guido Masanetz, 1955
  • Explosives for Santa Ines , Volksoper based on the novel of the same name by Eduard Klein, world premiere: June 16, 1973, Felsenbühne Rathen

Operettas before 1949

  • Barbara , operetta - text book by Erich Elstner - world premiere: June 7, 1941, Theater Brno (created 1939/1941)
  • The trip to Budapest , operetta, November 28, 1942, Bautzen Theater
  • The almond blossom , operetta - world premiere: 1948, Theater Bautzen

Scores for the cheerful music theater of the GDR (operetta, musical, musical comedy, etc.)

  • An impossible woman , operetta - music by Guido Masanetz - text book by Peter Bejach - premiere: September 25, 1954, Volkstheater Rostock
  • Who needs money , Operetta - music by Guido Masanetz - text book by Otto Schneidereit (first version of In Frisco the devil is loose , in the design Hotel Nevada ) - World premiere: November 17, 1956, Metropoltheater Berlin
  • The devil is loose in Frisco , operetta - music by Guido Masanetz - text book by Otto Schneidereit , new version with Maurycy Janowsky - world premiere: March 23, 1962, Metropoltheater Berlin (distribution: Alkor-Bärenreiter)
  • Eva and her moralist , operetta - music by Guido Masanetz - text book by Helmut Baierl - premiere: January 9, 1958, Theater Nordhausen
  • The instructor is supposed to get married , operetta - music by Guido Masanetz - text book by Jan Hall - first performance: October 7, 1959, musical comedy Leipzig
  • My beautiful benjamino , musical - music by Guido Masanetz - text book by Jo Schulz - world premiere: May 11, 1963, Metropoltheater Berlin (distribution: Schott)
  • Vasantasena , based on an old Indian motif , musical - music by Guido Masanetz - text book by Peter Ensikat - world premiere: September 8, 1978, Metropoltheater Berlin (distribution: Alkor-Bärenreiter)

Operetta adaptations

  • The cunning women or the poachers , large operetta in 3 acts based on Les Braconniers by Jacques Offenbach . Musical arrangement by Guido Masanetz. New text version by Jan Möhwald. Not for sale stage manuscript (typescript copied); Berlin W 8: VEB Lied der Zeit 1958 (Distribution: Schott)
  • The begging student , operetta in two acts (4 pictures) by F. Zell and Richard Genée. Music by Carl Millöcker . Textual and musical reorganization based on the original version by Egon Maiwald and Guido Masanetz; Berlin W 8: VEB Lied der Zeit 1972 (Distribution: Schott)

play

  • Harald Hauser : In the heavenly garden . Music by Guido Masanetz - World premiere: September 14, 1958, Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt (first broadcast of the television production by Gottfried Grohmann and Hans Flick on November 27, 1958)

Film music

Honors

Web links

Commons : Guido Masanetz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Roland Dippel: Heiteres Musiktheater - Operetta in the German Democratic Republic (1949-1989) in: The world of operetta | Frivolous, erotic and modern (editors: Marie-Theres Arnbom, Kevin Clarke, Thomas Trabitsch); Vienna 2011 (Christian Brandstätter Verlag) - pp. 213 to 239
  • Roland H. Dippel: The end of a musical era. Composer Guido Masanetz died at the age of 101 in: Leipziger Volkszeitung - November 10, 2015, No. 261 - p. 10
  • Roland H. Dippel: Between Experiment and Success. Herbert Kawan, Guido Masanetz and Conny Odd (series “Operetta and Musical of the GDR”, episode 7) in: Leipziger Volkszeitung , August 10, 2016, No. 186, p. 10
  • Otto Schneidereit : Operettas A - Z. A journey through the world of operettas and musicals ; Berlin 1986 (Henschel Verlag Art and Society)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The distinctive free-standing theater house (by Fellner and Helmer ) of the former (German) Brno City Theater today houses the Brno Mahen Theater ("Mahenovo divadlo"), while in the inconspicuous house of the former Mahen Theater for the previous city theater: "Divadlo bratří Mrštíků ”the new (Czech) “ Brno City Theater ” with two stages was created.
  2. ↑ Composer Guido Masanetz died at the age of 101. In: musik-heute.de . November 6, 2015, accessed November 6, 2015.
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , April 26, 1974, p. 6.
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 3, 1989, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Masanetz, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and Kapellmeister
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedeck , Austro-Silesia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 2015
Place of death Berlin , Germany