Hans Schmidt (composer)

Hans Schmidt (born March 25, 1902 in Heilsbronn ; † March 3, 1982 in Erlangen ) was a German composer , music teacher and conductor .

Life

In 1922, Schmidt began studying music at the College of Music Nuremberg-Augsburg in Nuremberg and in 1924 at the University of Music and Theater in Munich . In 1929 he moved to the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin , where Rudolf Deman , Max Rostal and Paul Juon studied , among others . He graduated with a diploma as a music master .

In 1929 he became the conductor of the military music corps stationed in Landshut . In 1943 he became director of the music department of the music school in Frankfurt am Main , and in 1944 he was transferred to Berlin as a lecturer. From 1939 he was head music master and from 1942 staff music master . After the Second World War and being a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union, he founded a private music school in Heilsbronn in 1949. He was also a conductor in various orchestras in the Heilsbronn region.

Works

• 1929–1933 Heroic Overture
• 1938 Romantic overture
• 1938 Hungarian Fantasy
• 1970 introductory music and hymn

literature

• Paul E. Bierley, William H. Rehrig: The heritage encyclopedia of band music: composers and their music , Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1991, ISBN 0-918048-08-7
• Helmut Rosner, Burchard Bulling, Paul Frank, Florian Noetzel: Kurzgefasstes Tonkünstler Lexikon - Part Two: Additions and Extensions since 1937 , 15th edition, Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, Volume 1: A – K. 1974. ISBN 3-7959-0083-2 ; Volume 2: L-Z. 1976. ISBN 3-7959-0087-5