Heinrich Knappe

Heinrich Knappe (born September 28, 1887 in Bamberg , † October 12, 1980 in Munich ) was a German music teacher and conductor .

Life

Family and education

The Catholic baptized Heinrich Knappe, son of Senate President Wilhelm Ritter von Knappe and Rosa born of Bacherle, abiturierte the new school Bamberg . He then studied with Felix Mottl at the State Academy of Music and Music and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , receiving his doctorate in 1919 .

Heinrich Knappe was married to Elisabeth, nee Bauschinger. The marriage resulted in three children, including the biologist Joachim Knappe . Heinrich Knappe, the younger brother of the sculptor Karl Knappe , died in Munich in 1980 at the age of 93. He found his final resting place in the north cemetery there .

Professional background

Heinrich Knappe taught by various professional missions since 1920 conducting at the Academy of Music in Munich, renamed in the same year in State Academy of Music, College of Music, in 1921 he became a teacher in 1926 professor, 1932 associate professor , 1935 to ordinary Professor promoted. Knappe, who filled the office of deputy president in 1946, was awarded honorary membership in 1953 on the occasion of his retirement .

In addition, Heinrich Knappe acted as chairman of the Association of Münchner Tonkünstler and the State Association of Bavarian Tonkünstler from 1948 to 1951, from 1922 to 1929 and again from 1951 to 1963 as conductor of the Academic Choral Society Munich , which made him their honorary philistine and from 1924 to 1957 as their honorary philistine Conductor of the Wilde Gungl orchestra club, which made him honorary conductor. The important Munich music teacher Heinrich Knappe was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit in 1959 by the Bavarian Prime Minister Hanns Seidel .

Publications

• together with Friedrich Klose , Victor Hugo : Ein Festgesang Nero = (un chant de fête de Néron): for tenor solo, mixed choir, orchestra and organ. Score: German, Kahntr, Leipzig, 1913
• together with Paul von Klenau : Sulamith: according to the words of the Holy Scriptures (translated by Herder): an opera act in six pictures. Score: German, Universal Edition, Vienna, 1913
• together with Friedrich Klose, Alfred Mombert : Der Sonne-Geist. in: Universal Edition, 6113. Score: German, Universal Edition, Vienna, 1918
• Friedrich Klose; a study. in: Contemporary Composers, 3. Drei Masken Verlag, Munich, 1921

literature

• Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German who's who . Volume 17. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1973, p. 548.
• Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich: Biographies from eight centuries , Allitera, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-744-5 , p. 327.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Knappe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heinrich Knappe in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)