Hans Ulrich Engelmann

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Hans Ulrich Engelmann (born September 8, 1921 in Darmstadt ; † January 8, 2011 there ) was a German composer .

Career

Although Engelmann was a " half-Jew " for the National Socialists , he was able to take the Abitur in his hometown, but was then forced to work in a Darmstadt armaments factory. His father, the engineer Rudolf Engelmann, baptized a Protestant and an officer in the First World War , died in April 1945 in the Theresienstadt ghetto .

After the end of the Second World War , Hans Ulrich Engelmann first studied architecture and from 1946 received private composition lessons from Hermann Heiss . He attended the newly founded Darmstadt Summer Courses , where he is noted on the archive lists of the International Music Institute Darmstadt as Student No. 1 of the 1946 Summer Courses and in the following years he mainly enjoyed the twelve-tone music courses from René Leibowitz (1948) and Ernst Krenek (1951). influenced. From 1947 he studied musicology ( Friedrich Gennrich , Helmuth Osthoff ) and philosophy ( Theodor W. Adorno , Max Horkheimer , Hans-Georg Gadamer ) as well as literary studies and art history in Frankfurt and took composition lessons with Wolfgang Fortner , in whose villa Braunbehrens many young composers were at that time put the handle in hand. 1952 followed the doctorate on Béla Bartók's microcosm .

After getting married and spending a year in Iceland , Engelmann worked as a dramaturge , drama composer and assistant director at several German theaters . He worked as a lecturer at the Musiktage in Bilthoven and the summer courses in Darmstadt. From 1969 teaching position for composition in Frankfurt, where he taught as full professor from 1969 to 1986. Visiting professorships in Gent , Offenbach am Main , Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Jerusalem . Composition courses in Moscow and Vilnius (1985) and at Columbia University (1995).

Engelmann received scholarships from Harvard University (1949) and Villa Massimo Rome (1960, 1967, 1983) and has been awarded numerous prizes. Engelmann has been chairman of the GEMA works committee since 1995 . In 2006 Engelmann (after Gründler, Resch and Leopolder ) was the fourth to be awarded the honorary senator title of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt / Main.

Compositions (selection)

Stage works

  • Doctor Faust's journey to hell (op. 4; 1949/50). Burlesque chamber opera in one act. Libretto: after Klabund . UA 1951 Hamburg; Premiere of the new version 1962 Nuremberg
  • Magog (op. 16; 1956/57). Musical drama in 2 acts. Libretto : Hans Ulrich Engelmann / A. Müller
  • Noche de Luna (op.18; 1958). Pantomime for 2 dancers. 1962 Essen
  • The Lost Shadow (1960). Lyric opera in 2 acts. Libretto: Hans Ulrich Engelmann based on Adelbert von Chamisso
  • Serpentia (op. 26; 1962/63). Action ballet in 2 acts
  • The van Damm case (op. 30; 1966/67). Opera in 3 acts. Libretto: M. Kutter. UA 1968 Cologne; World premiere of the new version 1974 Münster
  • Ophelia (op. 36; 1969). Multimedia theater for a mimim. Premiere 1969 Hanover
  • Coincidentals (1971; electronic music)
  • Revue (op. 43; 1972/73). Music theater in 2 parts. Libretto: Hans Ulrich Engelmann / W. Swaczynna. Premiere 1973 Bonn
  • numerous theater, film and stage music

Student of Hans Ulrich Engelmann

Fonts

  • Bela Bartok's microcosm: attempting a typology of “new music”. Triltsch, Würzburg 1953 (literary-historical-musicological treatises 10)
  • Presence of the past - memories and thoughts of a composer. Liebig Verlag, Darmstadt 2001, ISBN 3-87390-157-9 .
  • Sound-Color-Melody: Texts on Music 1946–1996, ed. by Christoph Schwandt. Liebig Verlag, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-87390-299-2 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Composer Hans Ulrich Engelmann is dead. Handelsblatt dated January 8, 2011. Accessed on August 11, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Engelmann, Hans Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2011
Place of death Darmstadt