Harald Genzmer

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Harald Genzmer (born February 9, 1909 in Blumenthal , Hanover Province , † December 16, 2007 in Munich ) was a German composer .

biography

Genzmer was the son of the legal historian Felix Genzmer . He attended schools in Poznan , Berlin and Rostock . In 1927 he passed the Abitur in Marburg . He received piano and organ lessons at a young age. From 1928 to 1934 he studied composition at the Berlin University of Music with Paul Hindemith , who had a decisive influence on him. He also attended lectures by the musicologist Curt Sachs .

During his student days and later, Genzmer was always in contact with Oskar Sala , the protagonist of the Trautonium . His numerous works for this instrument and the piano must be considered a war loss. He often accompanied Sala on his concert tours.

During the National Socialist era he worked from 1934 to 1937 as a répétiteur and later as a director of studies at the Breslau Opera , and from 1938 at the Volksmusikschule in Berlin-Neukölln . At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, he received an Olympic bronze medal in the solo and choral singing category for his work Der Läufer . He did his military service first as a clarinetist and was then released from hospital concerts .

In April 1940, his music for the Air Force Orchestra , commissioned by the Reich Aviation Ministry , was premiered in Berlin . In the final phase of the Second World War , Adolf Hitler added him to the list of most important composers who had been gifted by God in August 1944 , which saved him from being deployed in the war.

In 1946 Genzmer was appointed Deputy Director and Professor of Composition at the newly founded University of Music Freiburg . From 1957 to 1974 he taught composition at the University of Music in Munich . The conductor Hortense von Gelmini performed his Sonatina for strings in 1971 . His 3rd symphony for large orchestra was composed in 1983/86 as a commissioned composition for the Munich Philharmonic and was premiered in the same year under the direction of Sergiu Celibidache . Until 2007 Genzmer composed, among other things, his Celtic Impressions in four movements - for flute and Celtic harp .

Genzmer's students were Barbara Heller , Robert Helmschrott , Bertold Hummel , Heinz Winbeck , Wolfram Menschick and Friedrich Zehm .

Works

Genzmer wrote orchestral , chamber music and choral works , and he also composed numerous works for piano and organ. The incidental music is limited to the ballet Der Zauberspiegel (1965). Musical thinking and musical practice are inextricably linked with Harald Genzmer - composition, teaching and performance practice form a unit. The composer shows a willingness to experiment with unusual instrumentations, for example with works for saxophone , glass harp or trautonium .

Orchestral works

  • Concert Suite (1939)
  • Symphonic music (1941)
  • Bremen Symphony (1942)
  • Festive Prelude (1945)
  • Pachelbel Suite (1946)
  • Concert in C (1948)
  • Kokua , dance suite for large orchestra (1951)
  • Sinfonietta for string orchestra (1953)
  • Divertimento di danza for string orchestra (1953)
  • 1st Symphony (1957, new version 1970)
  • 2nd symphony for string orchestra (1958)
  • Prologue (1959)
  • Second orchestral concert (1963)
  • Sonatina prima for strings (1967)
  • Miniatures for strings (1976)
  • Hölderlin-Fragments I – V - Music for large orchestra based on the words of Friedrich Hölderlin (1977)
  • 3rd symphony for large orchestra (1983/86)
  • 4th symphony for large orchestra (1990)
  • 5th symphony for large orchestra (1998)

Concerts

  • Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 1 (1938/39)
  • Concerto for Trautonium and Orchestra (1936, second version 1939/1940)
  • Concertino for piano, flute and string orchestra (1946/1957)
  • Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 (1948)
  • Concerto for violoncello and large orchestra (1950)
  • Concerto for Mixtur- Trautonium and large orchestra (1952)
  • Concerto for flute and orchestra (1954)
  • Chamber Concerto for oboe and string orchestra (1957)
  • Concerto for violin and orchestra (1959)
  • Divertimento giocoso for two woodwinds and string orchestra (1960)
  • Concertino for piano and strings (1963)
  • Concerto for harp and string orchestra (1965)
  • Concerto for viola and orchestra (1967)
  • Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (1970)
  • Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 3 (1974)
  • Concerto for percussion and orchestra (1978)
  • Concerto for four horns and orchestra (1986)
  • Concerto in G for two guitars and orchestra (1989)
  • Concerto for two trumpets and organ (1990) World premiere Otto Sauter, Bo Nilsson
  • Concertino for flute, oboe (or 2nd flute) and string orchestra (1998)
  • Concerto for three trumpets in C and string orchestra (1998)
  • Concerto for Trumpet, Piano and Strings (1999)

Solos, choir and orchestra

  • Three songs for soprano and orchestra (1942)
  • Three hymns for three solos, choir and orchestra (1946), based on a text by Gertrud von le Fort
  • Racine cantata for baritone solo, choir and orchestra (1949), based on texts by Jean Racine
  • Mass in E for soprano, alto and baritone solo, choir and orchestra (1953)
  • From the adventure of joy - a song for choir and instruments by Stefan Andres (1960)
  • Easter mass for soprano and baritone solo, choir and orchestra (1961)

Chamber music

  • 1st Sonata for flute and piano (1939)
  • 1st Sonata for Viola and Piano (1940)
  • Septet for harp, flute, clarinet, horn, violin, viola and violoncello (1944)
  • String Quartet No. 1 (1949)
  • String Quartet No. 2 (1954)
  • Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (1956/57)
  • First sonatina for trumpet in B flat and piano (1965)
  • Quintet for two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba (1970)
  • Quartet for oboe and string trio (1975)
  • Percussion quartet (1982)
  • Concert music for two trumpets, two trombones and organ (1983)
  • Quintet for clarinet and string quartet (1995)
  • Irish chants for soprano and violin (1997)
  • Miniatures for three recorders (2000)
  • Celtic impressions in four movements for flute and Celtic harp (2002-07)

Choral music

  • 5 choral songs based on Middle High German texts for 4-8-part mixed choir a cappella (1955)
  • 3 choir songs from wine for male choir a cappella (1957)
  • Irish harp - chants for 4-8 part mixed choir a cappella (1965)
  • 4 Petrarch choirs for mixed choir a cappella (1973–74)
  • 3 Goethe Choirs for female a cappella choir (1982)

Piano and organ music

  • First sonata for piano (1938)
  • Sonatina for piano
  • Preludes for piano
  • Sonata for piano four hands
  • 3 sonatas for organ
  • Advent concert for organ
  • Christmas concert for organ
  • Easter concert for organ
  • Pentecost concert for organ
  • Suite in C for piano (1948)
  • Tripartita in F for organ (1945)
  • Symphonic Concerto No. 1 for Organ (1973)
  • Concerto for percussion and organ (1974)
  • Fifth Sonata for Piano (1985)
  • Concert duo for baritone saxophone and organ (1989)
  • Te Deum Laudamus for three trumpets, three timpani and organ (1997)
  • Music of Mourning for Organ (2003)

Honors

Incomplete list

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Donhauser: Electrical sound machines. Böhlau, Vienna 2007
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 177.
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c825vna27E

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personal data
SURNAME Genzmer, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Blumenthal
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2007
Place of death Munich