Hans-Georg Burghardt

Hans-Georg Burghardt (born February 7, 1909 in Breslau ; † December 14, 1993 in Halle ) was a German musicologist and composer .

Life

After graduating from high school , Burghardt studied musicology, composition and music theory . He also had lessons from the famous pianist and teacher Bronislaw von Pozniak . Song cycles (Goethe, Eichendorff, “Nineteen Gesänge nach Christian Morgenstern”) and chamber music were created very early on . By Edmund Nick , head he received the Music Department of the Wroclaw Radio (1924-1933) repeated the opportunity to perform their own works at the transmitter. In 1932/33 he completed his studies.

The pianists Julian von Karolyi, Gerhard Puchelt and Hans-Erich Riebensahm took over some of his works into their repertoire and thus made him known outside of Silesia. In 1938 he received the Silesian Music Prize for his "Sinfonietta for Large Orchestra" op. 39. In 1941 B. became a teacher of counterpoint and composition at the University Institute for Music Education in his home town. The meeting with the poet Charlotte Dört-Rehment (1893–1980) was essential for him and his compositional work. More than eighty songs grew out of their collaboration. In the years up to 1945 a wealth of chamber music (piano sonatas and sonatinas, pieces for harmonium and organ, cello, violin and flute sonatas), song cycles and orchestral works (3 symphonies, symphonic music based on paintings by Raphael, etc.)

After being expelled, escaping and the consequent loss of many manuscripts, B. came to Halle. In 1948 he wrote his first piano concerto, for which he received the Brandenburg Music Prize. From 1950 he taught at the Conservatory in Cottbus , and in 1952 he was appointed lecturer at the Institute for Music Education at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . A second piano concerto, his concerto for two pianos as well as the sonata for two pianos and the opera Ludowica by Ch.Dört-Rehment were written in the Jena years as well as chamber music (third violin sonata, third piano trio) and song cycles (seven serious chants based on poems by Hermann Hesse - dedicated to his 85th birthday).

In 1964 B. was appointed to the Institute for Musicology at the University of Halle, where he worked until his retirement in 1974.

literature

• Nicole Kämpken: Hans Georg Burghardt (1909–1993) - life and work. A special way in "modern" music. Studio, Sinzig 2000. ISBN 3-89564-069-7

Web links

• Burghardt (Homepage)