Hans-Martin Theopold

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Hans-Martin Theopold (born April 22, 1904 in Detmold ; † 2000 there ) was a German pianist and music teacher (university teacher). For Henle-Verlag he provided numerous piano sheet music editions with fingerings.

Life

Hans-Martin Theopold was born on April 22, 1904 as the youngest of five children of the pastor of the Detmold Church of the Redeemer on the market, Eduard Theopold († March 3, 1923) in Detmold. At the age of eight he appeared in public for the first time with his piano teacher, music director Theodor Vehmeier ; When he was ten, he accompanied his father's services as an organist in the Marktkirche. In January 1921 he made his debut as a soloist with Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C major at the Detmold State Theater .

In autumn 1922 Theopold passed the Abitur at the Gymnasium Leopoldinum in Detmold. He then studied music and piano (major) at the Württemberg University of Music in Stuttgart with Max von Pauer and from 1923–1928 at the State Academic University of Music in Berlin-Charlottenburg with Richard Rössler and Waldemar Lütschg (1877–1948). During this time he earned his living a. a. with piano lessons, bar music and the musical accompaniment of silent films. He decided to study piano in Berlin in 1928 with the grade "very good"; the following year he received the “Grotrian Steinweg Prize”.

After finishing his studies, Theopold initially worked as a freelance concert pianist; from 1933 he was a member of the Chamber Music Association of the Berlin State Opera. Radio and vinyl recordings as well as numerous concert tours (including the USA, Scandinavia, the Baltic States, Romania) followed. During one of these trips Theopold met his first wife Irene Tatjana Wülfing († 1983) in Riga, whom he married in 1939. 1937–1943 Theopold taught as a contract teacher ("study professor") for piano as a major at the Bavarian State Conservatory of Music in Würzburg, where he became a member of the NSDAP in 1940.

From 1943 he led a master class for piano at the "Nordic Music School" in Bremen; his teaching activity was broken off when he was called up for military service. After his return from captivity, he initially resumed his freelance concert activities from 1947 to 1955, before joining the piano as a professor for piano on April 1, 1956 after a brief interlude as head of the piano master class at the Bergisches Landeskonservatorium in Wuppertal 1955-1956 "State Institute for School and Folk Music" of the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold was appointed. He taught there until his retirement in September 1969.

In addition to his teaching activities, Theopold worked between 1955 and 1975 on numerous piano sheet music editions by Henle Verlag, which he provided with fingerings. Theopold's correspondence in this regard with the publisher Günther Henle can be viewed in the Lippische Landesbibliothek under the shelf mark: Slg 64 No. 1. Hans-Martin Theopold died in Detmold in 2000.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mc .: Mentally and physically fit through climbing and swimming. Prof. Hans-Martin Theopold is 65 years old today in Detmold . In: Lippische Landeszeitung No. 93, April 22, 1969.
  2. ↑ Lt. In the memories of Prof. Alexander Wagner , Rössler was Theopold's “most important piano teacher”. See Alexander Wagner: Personal memories of the pianist and colleague Hans-Martin Theopold, professor at the Northwest German Music Academy Detmold . In: Prof. Hans-Martin Theopold 1904-2000 , pp. 4–5)
  3. ↑ a b c Hans-Martin Theopold: Experiences ... (1949).
  4. ↑ Hans Martin Theopold was awarded this year's Grotrian Steinweg Prize in the form of a concert grand because of his Berlin piano recital . In: Lippische Landeszeitung, January 18, 1929.
  5. ↑ The electronic catalog of the German Music Archive contains six records of records. A listing of concerts, radio recordings and recordings from 1936–1943 in the Theopold collection of the Lippische Landesbibliothek (shelf number: Slg 64, No. 6) comprises 8 sheets, possibly prepared by Willi Schramm .
  6. ↑ See the biographical information in the appraisal by Henle-Verlag .
  7. ↑ Cf. the summary of the results of a research project at the HfM Würzburg on the “political sentiment of the teachers at the State Conservatory of Music in Würzburg during the National Socialist era”, cf. The Spruchkammer files , accessed on March 3, 2016. Theopold is reproduced there with the statement from the denazification process that he politically rejected National Socialism because of his religious upbringing; his entry in 1940 is considered late entry in the summary of the project.
  8. ↑ In the count of the current managing director Dr. Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, there are 226 editions, around 1000 individual works and “well over 10,000 printed pages” - “in principle all of the great piano works in Western music history”. Wolf-Dieter Seiffert: Address Detmold April 22, 2014 . In: Prof. Hans-Martin Theopold 1904-2000 , pp. 6-9.

literature

  • Hans-Martin Theopold: Experiences of a Lippe pianist . In: Lippische Blätter für Heimatkunde, No. 1 (1949), p. 4.
  • Prof. Hans-Martin Theopold. 1904-2000. Edited by Renate Behrens, Rudolf Innig, Thomas Rothert. Coesfeld: Self-published, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Theopold, Hans-Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Theopold, Hans Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist, music teacher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold
DATE OF DEATH 2000
Place of death Detmold