Hans Münch-Holland

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Hans Rudolph Münch-Holland (born Münch ; born January 15, 1899 in Bern , † December 7, 1971 in Lemgo ) was a German cellist and university professor. He worked as a professor in Cologne and Detmold.

Life

Münch-Holland was born in 1899 as the son of the businessman Georg Münch and his wife Frieda, b. Dieffenbacher, born in Bern. After attending the secondary school in Stuttgart (until 1914) he studied at the local conservatory with Alfred Saal . His studies were interrupted by military service in 1917/18. In 1920/21 he was a cellist with the Stuttgart Chamber Trio. He then became solo cellist and concert master at the State Theater in Stuttgart. He also taught at the local conservatory.

He turned down offers for the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden in the 1920s. In 1924 he switched to the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig as solo cellist . From 1926 to 1933 he was a member of the Gewandhaus Quartet . In 1926 he replaced Julius Klengel in the Leipzig Trio, where he played with Edgar Wollgandt (violin) and Otto Weinreich (piano). He also taught at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1927 to 1933 . He then received a professorship at the Cologne Music Academy . In 1939 he performed with Willy Hülser at the Reichsmusiktage in Düsseldorf. From 1939 to 1953 he was a member of the Strub Quartet around Max Strub . In 1944 he was included in the Gottbegnadeten list as one of the most important German cellists . In October 1944 he left Cologne for Hildesheim .

In 1946 he was one of the founding fathers of the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold . Until 1964 he held a professorship there. At times he was also the facility's deputy director. His students included u. a. Gerhard Enger and Rudolf Metzmacher . In the 1950s he was part of a piano trio in Detmold with the violinist Max Strub and the pianist Hans Richter-Haaser .

In 1924 and 1937 he was appointed to the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra .

Münch-Holland, Protestant, was married to Margarete Holland and the father of two children.

Awards

literature

  • Hans-Rainer Jung, Claudius Böhm : The Gewandhaus Orchestra. Its members and its history since 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936618-86-0 , pp. 210f.
  • Ernst Klee : Cultural encyclopedia for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Revised edition, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 382.
  • Erich H. Müller (ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich H. Müller (Ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.
  2. ^ Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 . 2nd ed., Kopf, Kiel 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-037705-1 , p. 3669.
  3. ↑ Ernst Klee : Cultural Lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Revised edition, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 382.
  4. ^ Richard Müller-Dombois: The founding of the Northwest German Music Academy Detmold . In: Lippische Mitteilungen aus Geschichte und Landeskunde 46 (1977), pp. 5–64, here: p. 62.
  5. ^ Elgin Strub: Sketches by a family of artists in Weimar . JE Ronayne, London 1999, ISBN 0-9536096-0-X , p. 74.
  6. ^ Alfred Sous : The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. History, stories and anecdotes from then to now. Lienau, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87484-125-1 , p. 150.
personal data
SURNAME Münch-Holland, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Münch-Holland, Hans Rudolph (full name); Münch, Hans Rudolph (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cellist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 1971
Place of death Lemgo