Gustav Cords

Gustav Cords (born October 12, 1870 in Hamburg , † February 18, 1951 in Berlin ) was a German composer .

biography

Gustav Cords was the son of a cellist at the Hamburg State Opera . From 1887 to 1891 he studied composition in Hamburg , Sondershausen and Wiesbaden with the famous music theorist Hugo Riemann (1849–1919), whose students included Cords' contemporaries Max Reger and Hans Pfitzner . From 1894–1911 he was violinist at the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden , 1911–1919 President of the General German Musicians' Association in Berlin and then, with the title “ Chamber Musician ”, member of the Staatskapelle Berlin .

Works (selection)

• Midsummer night . Opera (first performance 1919 in Nuremberg)
• Fly agaric . Fairy tale opera
• Symphony in A minor (first performance 1913 in Berlin)
• Symphonic suite for orchestra
• Gudrun . Symphonic fragment (world premiere in Wiesbaden)
• Hellas . Symphonic Fantasy (world premiere in Wiesbaden)
• In storm and need . Overture for orchestra
• Variations on an own theme for orchestra, op.58
• Concerto in B minor for violin and orchestra, op.55
• Concerto in E minor for violoncello and orchestra op.56
• Berceuse for Cornet à Pistons and Orchestra
• Concert Fantasy in E flat minor for Cornet à Pistons and orchestra (also played on the euphonium)
• Melodia appassionata for Cornet à Pistons and orchestra
• Sextet for 5 wind instruments and piano
• Piano quartet op.25
• Piano trio op.61
• Miniatures for string quintet op.14
• String quartet
• Suite in the old style for three violins op.57
• Five performance pieces for violoncello and piano op.59
• Six bagatelles for violin and piano op.37
• Suite for oboe and piano op.53
• Romance for Cornet à Pistons and piano (also played on the euphonium)
• Valse-Impromptu for Cornet à Pistons and piano
• numerous songs

literature

• Hugo Riemann , music dictionary . Edited by Alfred Einstein, 11th edition. Berlin 1929
• Erich Hermann Müller , German Musicians Lexicon . Dresden 1929