Hansmaria Dombrowski

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Hansmaria Dombrowski (born August 20, 1897 in Reichenberg , † August 11, 1977 in Berlin ) was a German composer, conductor, organist and music writer.

As the son of the classical philologist Dr. Joseph Dombrowski was born in the Bohemian town of Reichenberg and grew up in a Catholic family in which music was also very important. After graduating from high school , he studied music at the Royal University of Music in Berlin . His teachers included Hans Pfitzner , Hugo Mann and Hugo Kaun . In 1919 he was awarded the Meyerbeer Prize for Young German Composers from the Meyerbeer Foundation .

After his first job as a choir director, organist and conductor in Stettin , he worked as a freelancer until 1934 in Schorndorf am Ammersee, among others . His best-known work to this day, the piano book on the minstrel, first published in 1930, falls during this period . The minstrel was one of the most popular German songbooks from the 1920s to the 1960s. His sister, the music pedagogue Nini Dombrowski , put him in charge of this . As the musical companion of the Spielmann publisher Klemens Neumann, she continued to look after this work after his death in 1928. From 1935 to 1944, Hansmaria Dombrowski worked as a conductor at the Deutschlandsender and at the same time as a lecturer in composition at the University of Music and at the Academic Institute for Church Music in Berlin.

Even after the Second World War he worked for various radio companies.

In addition to the composition of sacred works, especially for choral singing, his focus has always been on the musical arrangement of folk songs.

literature

  • Hansmaria Dombrowski: Piano book for the minstrel , 1930.
  • Hansmaria Dombrowski: Organ booklet by Helga Schneider ; A. Laumannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung Dülmen; no year
  • Piano and music book for the “Spielmann”: A selection of the original movements by Hansmaria Dombrowski (1897 to 1977) ; New ed. by Joachim Dennhoff; A. Laumannschen Verlagsbuchhandlung Dülmen; ISBN 978-3-89960-221-0 .
  • Joseph Thamm: Nini Dombrowski † , in: Neisser Heimatblatt, 13th year, No. 80, p. 11

Individual evidence

  1. Institute for Musicology at the University of Regensburg ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www-cgi.uni-regensburg.de
  2. Academic Institute for Church Music