Heinrich Funk (composer)

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Heinrich Robert August Albin Funk (born May 23, 1893 in Meiningen ; † October 1, 1981 in Jena ) was a German music teacher and composer . He gave piano lessons and taught harmony and counterpoint.

Act

Heinrich Funk first studied classical philology . From 1920 he lived in Jena. From 1951 to 1955 he was a teacher at the Municipal Music School of the University of Jena, founded on April 1, 1948 (in the converted city theater), from 1951 at the Jena Folk Music School (emerged from the Conservatory of Music, which existed from 1913 to 1944, today: Musik- und Art School Jena).

In 1951 he was a founding member of the "Association of German Composers and Musicologists" (VDK), from 1973 Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR (VKM). On the evening of December 23, 1954, his Christmas song was broadcast on the Berlin I radio station. In 1958 he worked on the choral cantata Auf Ferienfahrt , the text was by Rudolf Dölle from Weimar. In the 1960s and 1970s he attended the Warsaw Autumn Festival of Contemporary Music ( Warszawska Jesień , since 1956 for 8 days at the end of September). From 1962 to 1988 he was chairman of the trade union group of freelance music educators in Jena. On May 25, 1968 there was a gala concert on his 75th birthday in the Kleiner Volkshaussaal . In 1970 he created the commissioned work Passacaglia and Variations on an old drinking song for the Jena Philharmonic .

Heinrich Funk also wrote as a critic for the Jenaer Volksblatt and until 1944 for the Thüringer Allgemeine Zeitung . He bequeathed his fortune to the then folk music school in Jena. Documents from the Funk estate are in the Jena City Archives.

Works (selection)

Funk composed numerous choir and children's songs, for example:

Songs for high or medium voice with piano accompaniment:

  • Wild roses , text A. Frey
  • Am Schlehdorn , text by F. Evers
  • From kissing , text A. Ritter
  • Girl's song, text by Otto Julius Bierbaum
  • Kehraus waltz , folk song
  • Children's song , text by Alexander Seidel
  • Elisabeth , text Theodor Storm
  • Six piano pieces: 1. Minuet, 2. Capriccio, 3. Humoresque, 4. Dreaming, 5. Please, 6. Love song
  • Two sacred songs for mixed choir:
    • Morning song Early in the morning Jesus goes ... , poet unknown
    • Mondnacht “Quiet and gentle in a quiet night ...” , text by G. Weitbrecht
  • In the fog , text Hermann Hesse
  • Lonely , text by Gustav Schüler
  • Chaste love , text Gustav Falke
  • You are the sun , text Caesar Flaischlen
  • A Sunday , text Caesar Flaischlen
  • Earth spirit , text by Frank Wedekind
  • CVs , text by G. Falke
  • Under flowering linden trees , text A. Ritter
  • Song of a traveling student , text by Emanuel Geibel
  • May cat song , text by OJ Bierbaum
  • Melodrama The Bride , text Agnes Miegel
  • Cycle The songs for Hanna
  • Christmas singing game

literature

Funk, Heinrich. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 16 (Supplement 2: Eardsen - Zweibrücken). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1976, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 392

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Hans Lehmann: In memory of the senior Thuringian composer . In: Thüringische Landeszeitung . Jena October 15, 1981, p. 6 .
  2. ↑ a b Chronicle of the City of Jena, 1954. April 30, 2012, accessed on March 3, 2019 .
  3. ^ Gerhard Pröhl: Music and peace inseparable! In: People's Watch . No. 255 . Jena November 1st, 1958.
  4. ↑ ND archive: May 24th, 1978: composer Heinrich Funk was 85 years old. Retrieved May 28, 2019 .
  5. ^ G. Fr .: Heinrich Funk 75 years . In: People's Watch . Jena May 23, 1968.
  6. ^ B .: Heinrich Funk 85 years . In: People's Watch . Jena May 23, 1978.
  7. ↑ a b Festival concerts for the inauguration of the grand piano. Ostthüringer Zeitung , November 21, 2018, accessed on May 28, 2019 ( payment barrier )
  8. ^ Funk, Heinrich - Thuringia archive portal. Retrieved May 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Funk, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Funk, Heinrich Robert August Albin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Meiningen
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1981
Place of death Jena