Hans Millies (composer)

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Hans Millies' tombstone in the St. Jürgen cemetery

Hans Mollenhauer Millies (born March 4, 1883 in Dagebüll , † January 23, 1957 in Lübeck ) was a German violinist and composer .

Life

Hans Millies was the son of a pastor. He studied violin at the Musikhochschule in Berlin with Joseph Joachim and Andreas Moser . In 1910 he became concertmaster and conductor of the German Symphony Orchestra in Shanghai under the direction of Rudolf Buck .

At the beginning of the First World War he volunteered for military service and came to the Kiautschou sailor artillery department as a hoboist mate of the sea rifle . After the siege of Tsingtau and the German surrender to the Imperial Japanese Army in November 1914, he was taken prisoner by Japan and interned in the Narashino camp. Here he founded a string quartet , a camp orchestra and organized the music life in the camp. As a participant in the referendum in Schleswig , he was released early in September 1919. He went to Kiel and became concertmaster of the local symphony orchestra.

In 1920 he married the pianist and piano teacher Clara, b. Sievers, used Brehmer (1891–1977), and moved with her to her home town of Lübeck. He became concertmaster in the orchestra of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. In 1925 the couple opened their own music school in Lübeck.

In 1933 he became managing director of the newly founded Lübeck State Conservatory and University of Music , the predecessor institution of the Lübeck University of Music , which was called the Schleswig-Holstein State Music School in Lübeck since the loss of Lübeck's statehood in 1937 by the Greater Hamburg Act . During the Second World War he was also acting head of the university.

Millies made an appearance in Lübeck as the leader of the string quartet he founded.

He is known to this day for his easy violin concertos for beginners.

His son of the same name Hans Millies (* 1923 in Lübeck; † November 2, 2016 there) became a music teacher at the Meldorfer School of Academics and the Johanneum in Lübeck and a music critic. In 2005 he was honored with the commemorative medal of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities .

Works

Millie's setting of a poem by Theodor Storm was performed in 2001 in Narashino by musicians there.

literature

  • OAG German Society for Natural History and Ethnology of East Asia (Ed.): OAG NOTIZEN 09/2011 . PrintX Kabushikigaisha, Tokyo . 2011. ISSN 1343-408X. Pages 35-36. ( online )

Web links

  • CV at www.schleswig-holstein-und-japan.de
  • Short biography of Hans Millies. In: Tsingtau and Japan 1914–1920 - Historisch Biographisches Projekt. Retrieved June 27, 2016 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lübeckische Blätter 2016, p. 370
personal data
SURNAME Millies, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Millies, Hans Mollenhauer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Dagebüll
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1957
Place of death Lübeck