Heinrich Jalowetz

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Heinrich Jalowetz (born December 3, 1882 in Brno , Austria-Hungary ; died February 2, 1946 in Black Mountain , North Carolina ) was an Austrian conductor and composer who lived in the USA from 1938.

Life

Heinrich Jalowetz studied musicology at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1908 under Guido Adler . Between 1904 and 1908 he was also a student of Arnold Schönberg and Alexander von Zemlinsky and later conducted several works of the Vienna School .

Jalowetz worked as a composer and conductor. In 1908 he worked as a conductor in Regensburg , 1909/10 in Gdansk , 1912–16 in Stettin , 1916–23 at the Deutsches Landestheater Prague , 1924 at the Volksoper Vienna and from 1925 at the Cologne Opera . After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he had to move to Reichenberg in Czechoslovakia in 1933 , while his daughter Trude fled to the Netherlands .

In 1938 he emigrated to the USA with his wife. He was a professor at Black Mountain College from 1939 until his death .

Jalowetz had been married to the singing teacher Johanna Groag, a sister of Jacques Groag , since 1906 . Her daughter Trude Guermonprez , born in 1910, became an American textile artist, while her daughter Lisa Jalowetz, born in 1920, also became a visual artist and was married to the set designer Boris Aronson . Johanna Jalowetz taught at Black Mountain from 1939 to 1953.

The estate is in the archive of the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel .

Works (selection)

  • Dream play , dream theater, incidental music, text: Karl Kraus .
  • Chants (manuscript)
Edits
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky: The Dwarf , piano reduction, 1921
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony , piano reduction 1923
  • Arnold Schönberg: Pelleas and Melisande , arrangement for piano four hands, 1924
Fonts
  • About some peculiarities of Beethoven's melodic technique ... Diss. Vienna 1908 (printed 1910)
  • The teacher . In: Arnold Schönberg . Festschrift. Piper, Munich 1912, pp. 82-84
  • On the spontaneity of Schoenberg's music , in: The Musical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 4, 1944, pp. 385-408

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lisa Jalowetz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  2. ↑ Escape tracks. Telling escape in Europe. An interrupted career. Theater sketches by Lisa Jalowetz. May 17, 2018 to January 13, 2019 ( Memento from January 14, 2019 in the web archive archive.today ), Wien Museum. Exhibition review at kultur-online
personal data
SURNAME Jalowetz, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1946
Place of death Black Mountain, North Carolina