Hans Uldall

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Hans Uldall (born November 18, 1903 in Flensburg , † October 4, 1983 in Coburg ) was a German composer and conductor .

Life

From 1923 Uldall studied composition with Hugo Kaun in Berlin and at the Prussian Academy of the Arts with Georg Schumann . From September 1927 he studied conducting for the Kapellmeister career at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin with Rudolf Groß (Gross). He also studied musicology in Berlin and Marburg, where he received his doctorate in 1928 with a thesis on The Piano Concerto of the Berlin School and its guide Ph. E. Bach , published by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig . In the same year he published articles on the early history of the piano concerto in the journal for musicology . He published further articles in the monthly Die Musik , Berlin. Uldall joined the NSDAP in Berlin in 1928 . Uldall put himself at the service of National Socialist propaganda and demanded that the music academies turn the romantic foreigner into a soldier who knows how to handle the sword as well as the lyre.

He worked as Kapellmeister in Meiningen in 1928/29 and in Gera in 1930 . In 1931 and 1932 he was music consultant for the Danish State Broadcasting Corporation in Copenhagen. In 1933 he returned to Germany to work from mid-February 1933 to 1941 as music advisor and director of the choir at Hamburger Rundfunk .

From 1948 to 1959 he worked as a freelance composer for the NWDR and the NDR . He wrote folk music, wind music, sacred and secular choral works, etc. a. Work, Du Herz der Zeit (hymn for male choir and wind orchestra), organ works, chamber music, orchestral works (Hamburger Humoresken, around 1938; Hansische Festmusik, 1941), radio play music, a cheerful opera in one act, the three- in-one play with text by Walter Gättke , ballet music Constellation of venus . The world premiere of his opera Das Dreinarrenspiel took place in the 1941/42 season on November 22, 1941 at the Braunschweig State Theater . Uldall's Hamburg humoresques were performed in August 1952 under Uldall's direction by the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra at the Sunday summer concerts in Hamburg's Planten un Blomen park .

His son Gunnar was Senator for Economic Affairs of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 2001 to 2008.

Fonts (selection)

  • Hans Uldall: ideological foundations of a new music . In: Die Musik , 29. Jg., 2. Hj, 1937, pp. 673–675
  • Hans Uldall: The new folk music . In: Die Musik , 30.Jg., 1.Hj, 1937–1938, p. 73

literature

  • Erich H. Müller (Ed.): German Musicians Lexicon. - Dresden: Limpert, 1929.
  • Erich Schütze: Hans Uldall, a German composer. In: Die Musik , Volume 30, 1938, pp. 227–230.
  • Hermann Wagner: Composers from Schleswig-Holstein: Small Lexicon in Word and Picture . Husum 1978, page 63.
  • Friedrich Herzfeld (Hrsg.): The New Ullstein Lexicon of Music: with 5000 headwords, 600 music examples and 300 fig . - Frankfurt am Main [et al.]: Ullstein, 1993.
  • Memories. Unpublished, typescript typed in the Danish Central Library for South Schleswig , Flensburg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hans Uldall . Short biography in: Hermann Wagner: Composers from Schleswig-Holstein: Kleines Lexikon in Wort u. Picture . Husum 1978, page 63. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
  2. ↑ List of pupils of the Stern Conservatory (1850-1936), letters T to Z . Annual reports 1927/28 and 1928/29. Retrieved October 7, 2015
  3. ↑ Christoph Nichelmann - A master from the Prussian province. Sources and literature. With bibliographical information on Uldall's works. Retrieved October 7, 2015
  4. ^ Contributions to the early history of the piano concerto. In: Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft , 10th year, 1927/1928, pp. 139–152.
  5. ↑ The Music / Table of Contents 1922–1943. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
  6. ↑ Erich Schütze: Hans Uldall , 1938, p. 227f.
  7. Jump up ↑ Hans Uldall: Weltanimation Basics of a New Music , 1937, p. 674
  8. ^ Organization chart of NORAG 1933 ( Memento from June 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Status: January 1, 1933. Retrieved on October 7, 2015.
  9. ^ Organization chart of NORAG 1933 , p. 14 of the document. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
  10. ↑ Das Dreinarrenspiel In: John London: Theater Under the Nazis . Manchester University Press 2000. page 178. ISBN 0-7190-5912-7 .
  11. ↑ The way to you In: Hamburger Abendblatt from August 17, 1952.
  12. ↑ Access to Die Musik at Wikisource
  13. ↑ cited in: Michael Meyer: The Nazi Musicologist as Myth Maker in the Third Reich , in: Journal of Contemporary History , Vol. 10, No. 4 (Oct., 1975), pp. 649-665, here p. 652
personal data
SURNAME Uldall, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1983
Place of death Coburg