HE Erwin Walther

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HE Erwin Walther

HE Erwin Walther (born April 1, 1920 in Amberg ; † January 1, 1995 there ; full name: Heinrich Ernst Erwin Walther ) was a German composer .

Life

HE Erwin Walther passed his Abitur in 1938 at what was then Oberrealschule Amberg . He then studied composition, piano and conducting at the Bavarian State Conservatory for Music in Würzburg with Hermann Zilcher , with a minor in viola. In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht, in 1941 he suffered a serious injury for which he was released in 1943. In 1944 he married his wife Maud Schunk. 1945–47 he was in the Moosburg internment camp. From 1949 he performed as a pianist at concerts in the Bavarian Radio's Studio in Nuremberg, with a focus on improvisation . From 1952 he wrote music for the newly founded Amberg studio stage (Gerd Winkler), and later also for Winkler's television productions. From 1967 on, in addition to his activities as a composer, he was a part-time music teacher at the Gregor-Mendel-Gymnasium Amberg, from 1971 onwards he was full-time. In 1985 he retired. His estate is on permanent loan in the Amberg City Archives.

Work (selection)

HE Erwin Walther's compositions take up the influences of jazz as well as twelve-tone music . He saw so-called "optical music", his "audiograms", as an important field of work.

“As a composer, I'm kind of a sore thumb. Many of you may be familiar with some of the feathers in my dress; But the color spectrum ranges from late romanticism, impressionistic and expressionistic excursions to twelve-tone and audiovisual music, from art songs to chansons, cabaret and children's songs, from music to work films to large-scale television films, from Bavarian folklore to apparent chaoticism. But whatever I wrote: I always had fun with it. "

- HE Erwin Walther

Vocal music

  • Job. An earthly passion . Oratorio (1946–1949) for solos, mixed choir and harpsichord
  • Annual cycle . Oratorio for solos, speaker and mixed choir. Text: Eugen Oker (1988)

Stage works

  • The Shy Dragon (1965)
  • The farce "No Opera" (1969)

Instrumental music

  • 13 orchestral works (1954–1989)
  • 16 concerts (1941–1984)
  • 47 chamber music works (1938–1991)
  • 15 piano works (1935–1978)

Music for film, television and radio

  • ttt - title, theses, temperaments . Theme music ( HR 1967)
  • Forms of color , music for a television film by Gerd Winkler (HR 1967), which received honorable recognition from the General Programs jury at the 1970 Adolf Grimme Prize
  • Mike Blaubart , music for a TV film by Gerd Winkler (HR 1967)
  • Dr. Katzenberger's bathing trip , music for a TV film based on Jean Paul , director: Gerd Winkler ( ZDF 1978)

Optical music

  • 300 audiograms (1966–1990)
Audiogram 18-2 from 1970

“An audiogram wants to create a relationship between graphics and acoustics . It is a field of action that leaves the performer free , within the framework of which he plays himself out, that stimulates him. "

- HE Erwin Walther

The audiograms are in the tradition of music graphics , as used by John Cage , György Ligeti and Krzysztof Penderecki , among others .

Here for the detailed catalog raisonné

Awards

literature

  • Helmut Bieler and others: HE Erwin Walther. Landesverband Bayerischer Tonkünstler: Composers in Bavaria, Volume 36. Schneider, Tutzing 1998, ISBN 3-7952-0934-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ erwin-walther.de
personal data
SURNAME Walther, HE Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walther, Heinrich Ernst Erwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH On the mountain
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1995
Place of death On the mountain