Hans Vogt (composer, 1909)

Hans Vogt (born March 3, 1909 in Basel ; † July 28, 1978 there ) was a Swiss composer , pianist and conductor . From 1966 to 1974 he was head of the music department of the radio in German and Romansh Switzerland (Radio DRS).

Life

Hans Vogt was born as the youngest son of the teacher and choirmaster Emil Vogt on March 3, 1909 in Basel. After graduating from the Upper Realschule in Basel (1928), which was later called the Mathematical and Natural Science Gymnasium and today the Gymnasium Kirschgarten , he studied music at the Basel Conservatory on the advice of his uncle Hermann Suter . In 1931, as a pupil of Carlotte Schrameck, he obtained the soloist diploma for piano and in 1932 the diploma for teaching singing and music in middle and upper schools. He then attended Felix Weingartner's conducting courses in 1932/33 . He also had private composition lessons with Otto Rippl. He then undertook a one-year study visit to Paris, during which he refined his compositional skills with Paul Dukas and his pianistic skills with Alfred Cortot . He then lived as a freelance artist in Basel and worked mainly as a pianist, with concerts in Switzerland, Germany, France and Italy, and as a composer.

In 1942, Hans Vogt became a flat-rate employee of the radio in German and Rhaeto-Romanic Switzerland ( Radio DRS ), where he had had occasional engagements for ten years. In this function he was a kind of “house composer, pianist and conductor” for Radio DRS. In 1946 he was appointed piano teacher at the Basel Conservatory. During this time he wrote the book Basic Pianistic Concepts: Preliminary Remarks on a Teaching of Piano Playing , which was published in 1949. In 1953 he gave up teaching at the conservatory in favor of full-time participation at Radio DRS. In 1958 he became deputy head of the music department, Conrad Beck , from whom he took over the post of head of the music department in 1966, which he held until 1974. In 1978 Hans Vogt died in Basel at the age of 69.

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As a pianist

Hans Vogt gave various concerts in France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland. In addition, he made many sound recordings for the radio in German and Rhaeto-Romanic Switzerland and was a popular companion with singers and instrumentalists. He also formed a long-term piano duo with  Eduard Henneberger .

As a conductor

In his work as a conductor, Hans Vogt and the Basler Orchester Gesellschaft (Basler Sinfonieorchester) and the Radio Symphony Orchestra repeatedly performed works by composers who were forgotten at the time, such as Felix Draeseke , Friedrich Gernsheim , Adalbert Gyrowetz , Heinrich von Herzogenberg , Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda and Joseph Martin Kraus , Georg Abraham Schneider , August Walther, Paul Wineberger , Joseph Hartmann Stuntz or the Engelberg valley wedding of the Lucerne patrician Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schauensee for the performance. He also performed many works by French composers for the first time in German-speaking Switzerland, such as Albéric Magnard , Vincent d'Indy , Louis Vierne , Charles-Marie Widor and Ernest Chausson .

As a composer

Hans Vogt's compositional work is shaped by both the French style and German influences. Hans Vogt saw himself in the tradition of Bach , Ravel and Bartók .

Hans Vogt's compositional oeuvre comprises around 70 works as well as a large number of compositions for radio programs and radio plays in German and Romansh Switzerland. In addition to four symphonies, a mass, a violin concerto, a piano concerto, several vocal works, such as the Merry Herbarium based on poems by Karl Heinrich Waggerl or three songs based on poems by Johann Peter Hebel , he also wrote several piano works such as the Sonatina for piano or the ten Piano pieces for the youth , as well as several works for chamber orchestra, such as a divertimento for oboe, clarinet and bassoon , seven pieces for alto saxophone and piano , the variations and fugue on " Hello Dolly " for string quartet or the Trois Caprices for four clarinets in B flat The Trois Caprices for four clarinets "show the composer Hans Vogt [...], who emerged from the school of Paul Dukas, the great composer and not least the humorist like Jacques Ibert , Darius Milhaud or Francis Poulenc ."

In addition to the serious works, the work of Hans Vogt also includes works of everyday music . So he wrote the music for the ballet festival Long Live Life for the Swiss Federal Gymnastics Festival in Basel in 1959, for the Basler Stadtspiegel: a game in three pictures by Rudolf Suter and music for the Altdorf tell game. He also composed the Gugger March for 3 piccolos and Basel drums for the Basel Carnival . Hans Vogt is also the composer of the song Kumm, mer fahre-n-ibere Rhy, which is known to many Basel residents .

The majority of his works are kept in handwritten or printed form in the university library of the University of Basel and in the archive of the Swiss radio in German and Romansh Switzerland.

List of works (excerpt)

• orchestra
  • Symphony No. 1 (1959)
  • Symphony No. 2 (1964)
  • Symphony No. 3 (1972)
  • Symphony No. 4 (1976/1977)
  • Romantic suite for large orchestra

• Solo instruments and orchestra
  • Concertino for piano and small orchestra (1975)
  • Piano Concerto in C major (1936)
  • Violin Concerto in A major (1942)

• Chamber music
  • Andante and Allegro for flute and piano (1949)
  • Divertimento for oboe, clarinet and bassoon (1975)
  • Three bagatelles for oboe, clarinet and bassoon (1960)
  • Trois Caprices for four clarinets in Bb (1974)
  • Sonata for violin and piano, D major (1937)
  • Sonata for violoncello and piano, G major (1954)
  • String Quartet No. 1, A major (1934)
  • String Quartet No. 2 (1952)
  • Seven pieces for alto saxophone and piano (1959)
  • Variations and fugue on Hello Dolly for string quartet (no year)
  • Gugger March for 3 piccolos and Basel drums (1954)

• Solo instruments
  • Sonatina for piano (1950)
  • Suite in D flat major for piano (1938)
  • Suite in E minor for piano (1933)
  • Ten Piano Pieces for Young People (1975)

• Vocal music
  • Music for the Singspiel Scherz, List und Rache (JW Goethe), for soprano, tenor, baritone and piano (1934)
  • Cheerful Herbarium (KH Waggerl), for mixed choir a cappella (1953)
  • Six songs (F. Hölderlin), for medium voice and piano (1958)
  • Five songs (F. von Matthisson), for medium voice and piano (1952)
  • Three songs (Joh.P. Hebel), for medium voice and piano (1955)
  • Drei Gesänge (Ruth Schaumann), for high voice and piano (1934/1935)
  • Laudes Paschales, Easter hymn (Notker), for four solo voices, mixed choir and orchestra (1966/67)

literature

• Christoph Ballmer: Hans Vogt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Swiss musicians lexicon / Dictionnaire des musiciens suisses. Swiss Tonkünstlerverein, edited by Willi Schuh et al., Atlantis Verlag, Zurich 1964
• Swiss music book. Music dictionary. Edited by Willi Schuh and Edgar Refardt . Atlantis Verlag, Zurich 1939.
• Hans Vogt: Basic Pianistic Concepts: Preliminary Remarks on a Teaching of Piano Playing. Amerbach-Verlag, Basel 1949.
• Catalog of works / list of oeuvres. Hans Vogt. Swiss Music Archive / Archives Musicales Suisses. Zurich 1972.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Vogt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans Vogt's estate in the Basel University Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} W. Schuh, H. Ehinger, P. Meylan, HP Schanzlin. Swiss musicians lexicon / Dictionnaire des musiciens suisses. P. 386f. Atlantis Verlag, Zurich 1964.
2. ↑ Armand Hiebner. In memory of Hans Vogt. In: Basler Volksblatt. No. 200, July 31, 1978
3. ^ ^{A b} Paul Meyer-Gutzwiller. Knowledgeable, confident of judgment, with integrity. On the resignation of Hans Vogt as head of the music department at Radio DRS. In: Basler Volksblatt. No. 161, July 15, 1974
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Pius Koelliker. Commemorative broadcast of July 28, 1979 on the 1st anniversary of Hans Vogt's death . Swiss Radio DRS, 1979
5. ↑ Armand Hiebner. On the death of Hans Vogt. In: Basler Zeitung . No. 200, July 31, 1978, p. 27