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. "
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)
“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. "
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
- 1960: Nordgau Culture Prize from the city of Amberg
- 1961: Culture Prize East Bavaria
- 1989: Culture Prize of the City of Amberg
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
- www.erwin-walther.de
- Works by and about HE Erwin Walther in the catalog of the German National Library
- Walther, Erwin in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Heike Nasritdinova: Walther, Heinrich Ernst Erwin . Entry in the database of the Oberpfälzer Kulturbund (currently not available)
- IKURO Edition - Music Publishing Roland Heuer - Authors - HE Erwin Walther
- 100th birthday of HE Erwin Walther on the homepage of the city of Amberg
- Michaela Grammer: "A colorful bird" - The Amberg composer HE Erwin Walther (1920–1995) (PDF; 66 kB)
- HE Erwin Walther in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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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 |