Hans Stieber

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Hans Albert Oskar Stieber (born March 1, 1886 in Naumburg an der Saale , † October 18, 1969 in Halle an der Saale ) was a German conductor , composer and violinist . He was the founding director of the State University for Theater and Music Halle .

Life

Origin and family

Stieber's maternal great-grandmother Friederike Komitsch, b. Schaffner, was an actress at the Berlin Court Theater and was first married to the actor Ludwig Devrient . His grandfather had a doctorate in law, Wilhelm Stieber, and worked as police director, secret councilor and head of the Central News Bureau at the Prussian Ministry of the Interior in Berlin.

Hans Stieber was born in 1886 as the eldest of four sons of the lawyer Paul Stieber (1856–1944) and his wife Elsbeth (Else) (1861–1940), b. Biermann was born in Naumburg an der Saale in the Prussian province of Saxony . The father made it to the 1st director of the North German Knappschafts pension fund in Halle an der Saale. In addition, he made a name for himself as the founder of a health resort. He was also the business director of the Luther Festival and organized the mountain concerts in Halle. Hans Stieber's brother Walter Stieber (1890–1973) was an opera and concert singer (tenor), especially a sought-after Mozart and Verdi interpreter.

He was an Evangelical Lutheran denomination and from 1920 with Gretel Elisabeth, born in East Frisia . Runge, married.

School time and music studies

Stieber attended the city ​​high school in Halle . As a schoolboy he was enthusiastic about puppet theater , at the same time he received piano lessons from his music-interested father.

His musical interest culminated in 1904 when he began studying music at the Leipzig Conservatory . He studied with the former concertmaster of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Arno Hilf (violin) and with Gewandhauskapellmeister Arthur Nikisch (conducting) as well as with Stephan Krehl (theory) and Heinrich Zöllner (composition). From 1906 to 1908 he continued his studies at the Princely Conservatory Sondershausen in Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , probably for health reasons . There he was decisively promoted by the institute director Carl Corbach . In 1909 he publicly took his exams. He played Dvořák's 14th String Quartet as violist , conducted an aria from Mendelssohn's oratorio Elias and took part as a soloist in the composer's violin concerto in E minor .

Stations as a conductor

From 1908 he was initially a violinist in the Loh Orchestra in Sondershausen . In 1910 he became 2nd violinist in the Dessau court orchestra in Anhalt . After a year he also became assistant to the court conductor Franz Mikorey and worked as a répétiteur and choirmaster at the court theater until 1915 . In the summer months he was a violinist with the spa orchestras in Bad Kissingen (Bavaria) and Bad Elster (Saxony).

He then worked at various German theaters : he was the opera conductor and concert conductor at the Koblenz City Theater (1916) and at the Munich Chamber Opera (1917). At the Stadttheater Kiel , where he worked from 1917 to 1920, he was responsible for the new production of Cherubini's opera Der Wasserträger with self-composed recitatives. In 1920 he became a symphony concert conductor with the Halle City Theater Orchestra . He opened the orchestra's dress rehearsals for free attendance by school classes.

The premiere of his first opera Der Sonnenstürmer in Chemnitz in 1921 , in which his brother also participated as a singer, celebrated great success . In the 1920s and 1930s he composed numerous stage and choral works, which were premiered in Hanover, Essen, Bremen, Vienna, Leipzig and Breslau. In 1928 the Gewandhaus Quartet premiered its string quartet in F major.

From 1922 he worked as a freelancer in Hanover for 15 years: until 1938 he headed the Hanover Men's Singing Association . In 1923 he made his debut in the domed hall of the Hannover City Hall . As a concert conductor he interpreted a. a. Liszt's Faust Symphony , Bruckner's 5th Symphony and Mahler's 2nd Symphony ( Resurrection Symphony ). In 1924 he brought Pfitzner's romantic cantata Von deutscher Seele to the Hanoverian premiere with the men's choir and the Hanoverian concert choir he founded , which later became the Singakademie .

Activity at the Leipzig Opera House

In 1938 Stieber got a position as dramaturge , musical advisor and conductor at the Leipzig City Opera . He was also responsible for the composition of stage and drama music, such as Gutenberg in Mainz , Der Schauspieldirektor , Der Mumanz and Madame Devrient . Stieber also succeeded Gustav Wohlgemuth in the Leipzig men's choir . In 1941 he reorganized the Leipzig Singing Academy and became its music director.

During his time in Leipzig he also composed symphonic works and cantatas, which a. a. were performed in the Gewandhaus under the direction of Hermann Abendroth and Paul Schmitz . The world premiere of his opera Der Dombaumeister took place in 1942 at the Breslau Opera House .

Stieber was not a party member, but belonged to the circle of friends of the Mayor of Leipzig and resistance fighter Carl Friedrich Goerdeler . He saw himself as a late romantic . According to Gert Richter (1986), “bourgeois Christian-humanist traditions” shaped his work. Stieber's works are “based on high moral standards”. He “did not allow himself to be corrupted by the National Socialist idea or oppressed in his ethos”. Stieber “set National Socialist cheering texts to music,” as Harry Waibel (2011) portrayed.

Founding director of the Musikhochschule Halle

Former State University for Theater and Music in Halle (2017)

In June 1946 commissioned by the Soviet military administration , he founded a. a. together with Max Schneider , Walther Davisson , Bronisław von Poźniak and Sigfrid Grundis the State University for Theater and Music in Halle, which he directed until 1948. From 1948 to 1955 he was professor and head of the master classes for composition , conducting and opera dramaturgy. After converting to a school music institute in 1955, he retired , but continued to work at the institute as a member of the Senate and department head for the subjects of composition and theory. His students included u. a. Fritz Ihlau and Manfred Weiss . In addition, he rebuilt the Robert-Franz-Singakademie in Halle as musical director from 1948 to 1953 .

Guest conductors led him a. a. to Prague, Frankfurt am Main, Lübeck, Hanover and Leipzig. He turned down an invitation to the 1951 Music Olympics in Salzburg. In 1952 he took part in the 1st International Music Congress as a guest of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna . He was a juror in the society's soloist competition. The Lower Rhine Choral Music Festival in Mönchen-Gladbach appointed him to their honorary committee. Stieber was also a member of the Richard Strauss Society and the Society for Music Research . On behalf of the Leipzig University of Music, he carried out music-dramaturgical research on contemporary operas. He was also u. a. Active in the commission for music theater in the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR , for which he also prepared reports. Stieber was an honorary member of the Richard Wagner Association and the Hanoverian Men's Singing Association .

He was also fruitful as a composer. He dedicated his Dialogue for Violin and Viola (1965) to the Soviet violin virtuoso David Oistrach , who received the score personally during a concert in Halle. He composed the Violin Concerto in D major for Saschko Gawriloff . He also dealt musically with the works of the sculptor Ernst Barlach . So he became a member of the Barlach Society and in the Barlach working group in the Kulturbund of the GDR .

Stieber died in 1969 of pneumonia in Halle.

Works

Hans Stieber's works are stored in the Stieber archive in the Hanover City Library and as a partially cataloged legacy (edited by Gert Richter) in the library of the Handel House Foundation of the City of Halle.

His oeuvre includes musical dramaturgical works such as operas , chamber operas and singspiele , vocal works , including choral symphonies , as well as orchestral and instrumental chamber music works . He was also the author of several stage plays.

Prices

  • 1961: Art Prize of the City of Halle (on the occasion of its 1000th anniversary)
  • 1965: Handel Prize of the Halle District Council

Hans Stieber Prize

As part of the Hallische Musiktage , the Hans Stieber Prize was awarded (posthumously) from 1977 onwards at the suggestion of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR .

literature

  • Hermann Abert (ed.): Illustrated music lexicon . J. Engelhorns Nachf., Stuttgart 1927.
  • Ingrid Bigler-Marschall: German Theater Lexicon . Biographical and bibliographical manual . Volume 4: Singer - Tzschoppe . Founded by Wilhelm Kosch . Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-907820-30-4 , p. 2344.
  • Sigrid Fritzlar: Stieber, Hans . In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ, DDR . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , pp. 898f.
  • Walther Killy (†), Rudolf Vierhaus (Hrsg.): German biographical encyclopedia . Volume 9: Schmidt - Theyer . 2nd revised and expanded edition, Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-23299-3 , p. 540.
  • Erich H. Müller (ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.
  • Gert Richter: Catalog for the collections of the Handel House in Halle . Part 9: Legacies and partial legacies . Part: H. 1: Part of the estate of Hans Stieber . Handel House, Halle an der Saale 1986.
  • Gert Richter: In Memoriam Hans Stieber . In: Handel House Communications 1/1999, pp. 37–41.
  • Klaus Schneider: Hans Stieber. Biographical data, catalog raisonné, bibliography . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , NF 26 (1972) 3/4, pp. 199–215.
  • Horst Seeger : Music Lexicon. In two volumes . Volume 2: L-Z . Deutscher Verlag für Musik VEB, Leipzig 1966, p. 449.
  • Hugo Thielen : Stieber, Hans . In: Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Hannover. From the beginning to the present . Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 605.
  • Association of composers and musicologists of the GDR : composers and musicologists of the German Democratic Republic. Short biographies and catalogs of works . Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin 1959, p. 182f.
  • Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 325.
  • Manfred Weiss : Halle music history: memories of Hans Stieber . In: Handel House Communications 3/2000, pp. 31–33.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Klaus Schneider: Hans Stieber. Biographical data, catalog raisonné, bibliography . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , NF 26 (1972) 3/4, pp. 199–215, here: p. 201.
  2. ↑ Paul Stieber , glass-portal.privat.t-online.de, accessed on March 11, 2019.
  3. ^ Hugo Thielen : Stieber, Hans . In: Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Hannover. From the beginning to the present . Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 605.
  4. ^ A b c Gert Richter: Catalog for the collections of the Handel House in Halle . Part 9: Legacies and partial legacies . Part: H. 1: Part of the estate of Hans Stieber . Handel House, Halle an der Saale 1986, p. 8.
  5. ↑ a b c d Klaus Schneider: Hans Stieber. Biographical data, catalog raisonné, bibliography . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , NF 26 (1972) 3/4, pp. 199–215, here: p. 202.
  6. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 6: Rasa - Sutton . 4th expanded and updated edition, Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 , p. 4539.
  7. ^ Gert Richter: Catalog for the collections of the Handel House in Halle . Part 9: Legacies and partial legacies . Part: H. 1: Part of the estate of Hans Stieber . Handel House, Halle an der Saale 1986, p. 10.
  8. ↑ a b Klaus Schneider: Hans Stieber. Biographical data, catalog raisonné, bibliography . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , NF 26 (1972) 3/4, pp. 199-215, here: pp. 202f.
  9. ↑ a b c d Klaus Schneider: Hans Stieber. Biographical data, catalog raisonné, bibliography . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , NF 26 (1972) 3/4, pp. 199–215, here: p. 203.
  10. ^ Gert Richter: Catalog for the collections of the Handel House in Halle . Part 9: Legacies and partial legacies . Part: H. 1: Part of the estate of Hans Stieber . Handel House, Halle an der Saale 1986, p. 6.
  11. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 325.
  12. ^ Gert Richter: Catalog for the collections of the Handel House in Halle . Part 9: Legacies and partial legacies . Part: H. 1: Part of the estate of Hans Stieber . Handel House, Halle an der Saale 1986, p. 12.
  13. ↑ a b c d Gert Richter: Catalog for the collections of the Handel House in Halle . Part 9: Legacies and partial legacies . Part: H. 1: Part of the estate of Hans Stieber . Handel House, Halle an der Saale 1986, p. 15.
  14. ^ Gert Richter: Catalog for the collections of the Handel House in Halle . Part 9: Legacies and partial legacies . Part: H. 1: Part of the estate of Hans Stieber . Handel House, Halle an der Saale 1986, p. 13.
  15. ^ Gert Richter: Catalog for the collections of the Handel House in Halle . Part 9: Legacies and partial legacies . Part: H. 1: Part of the estate of Hans Stieber . Handel House, Halle an der Saale 1986, p. 14.
  16. ↑ Archives in the library of the Handel House Foundation , haendelhaus.de, accessed on March 10, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Stieber, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stieber, Hans Albert Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, conductor and violinist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH 18th October 1969
Place of death Halle (Saale)