Hans Bullerian

Hans Bullerian (aka Hans Bullerjahn , born January 28, 1885 in Sondershausen ; † January 29, 1948 in Zeuthen ) was a German pianist , conductor and composer of serious music .

life and work

Hans Bullerian is the son of the violinist and conductor Rudolf Bullerian. He moved to Russia permanently in the 1890s and so Hans Bullerian received his first piano lessons in Kiev and Moscow. Between 1903 and 1905 he studied piano with Aleksander Michałowski and composition with Zygmunt Noskowski in Warsaw . Then he became a student of Anna Jessipowa in St. Petersburg. In addition, Hans Bullerian studied counterpoint with Anatoli Lyadow and composition and instrumentology with Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow in St. Petersburg . His further studies took him to the piano master class in Brussels with Arthur De Greef in 1910/11 , Sophie Menter in 1912 and Friedrich Gernsheim's composition class at the Berlin School of Music in 1913/14 .

After his studies, Hans Bullerian stayed in Berlin. In 1915 he received the Mendelssohn Prize for his 2nd symphony. In 1927 he founded the Bullerian Chamber Orchestra in Berlin, of which he was chief conductor. From 1931 to 1945 he also worked as the conductor of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra .

Bullerian became a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1932 and was registered under the party number 1.105.353. In 1933 he became head of the RMK's composers 'council for the districts of Greater Berlin, Kurmark, East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia, and in 1934 he was head of the composers' council in the RMK regional managements of the Brandenburg and Berlin districts. During the time of National Socialism he wrote various compositions that conformed to the system, including marches and film music, for example for Bleeding Germany (1933). After the Second World War it was put on the "black list" of the US military government and for political reasons it was banned from broadcasting in the Soviet Zone .

Compositions

• op. 1: piano quintet
• op. 2: Piano Trio No. 1
• op. 3: Symphony No. 1 for harp and orchestra
• op. 4: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major
• Op. 5: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
• op. 6: Viola Concerto in C minor
• op. 7: Violin Concerto
• op.8: Symphony based on paintings by Stuck (1914)
• op. 9: Allerseelen , for male choir and orchestra
• op. 10: König Sturm , for male choir and orchestra
• op. 11: Symphonic poetry A phenomenon
• op. 12: songs
• op. 13: songs
• op. 14: Impromptu for harp
• Op. 15: Symphony No. 2 in E flat major
• op. 16: string quartet
• op. 17: orchestration of the concerto for violin alone op.17 by Jean Paul Ertel
• op. 18: Sonata for cello and piano in B minor
• op. 19: The Mute of Jerusalem , opera
• op. 20: Theme and improvisation for piano and orchestra
• op. 21: songs
• op. 22: Silence, the sea tells , for alto and orchestra
• op. 23: Overture Don Carlos
• op. 24: Concert Etude and Nocturno for piano
• op. 25: songs
• op. 26: The sea sang , for alto and orchestra
• op.27: Piano Trio No. 2
• op. 29: Sonata for violin and piano in E minor
• op. 30: Sonata for cello and piano
• op. 31: Sonata for double bass and piano
• op. 32: Symphony for alto, choir and orchestra An das Licht
• op. 38: Sextet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon
• op. 40: Chamber Symphony
• op. 41: Cello Concerto
• op. 42: Death and Awakening , song cycle for voice and chamber orchestra
• op. 43: Symphetta for chamber orchestra
• op. 44: Poeme d'extase, for cello and piano
• op. 46: Sonata for harp
• op. 47: string quartet
• op. 50: Arab fairy tales, for orchestra
• op. 56: Ukrainian dance suite
• op. 71: Suite Old Musics
• op.78: Symphony No. 7
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben , Funkoper (1936)
• Festive Prelude, for Orchestra (1937)
• Japanese March, for winds (1941)
• Reverie lyrique
• Amoretto
• Russian dances, for orchestra

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945. Kiel 2004, CD-ROM Lexicon, pp. 826/827.

literature

• Erich H. Müller (1929): German Musicians Lexicon. Dresden: Wilhelm Limpert-Verlag, p. 175.
• Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945. Prieberg, Kiel 2004.
• The music in the past and present. Person part, 3rd year of manufacture, Bärenreiter Kassel 2000.