Heinrich Simbriger

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Heinrich Simbriger (born January 4, 1903 in Aussig , Bohemia ; † July 16, 1976 in Regensburg ) was a composer , music theorist and archive manager. Simbriger is the founder of a twelve-tone composition theory that he called complementary harmonics .

Life

From 1921 to 1923 he studied composition with Fidelio Fritz Finke in Prague , then with Joseph Haas in Munich and Josef Lechthaler in Vienna . In 1929 he got into the circle around Josef Matthias Hauer , in 1937 he received his doctorate, also in Vienna. "Gong and gong games" was the subject of his dissertation. During the Second World War Simbriger worked as a music teacher in Tetschen-Bodenbach . From around 1950 Simbriger began working on his complementary harmonics . In 1950 he received the Sudeten German Culture Prize for Music, and in 1963 the Johann Wenzel Stamitz Prize . In Regensburg , where Simbriger built up the music archive of the artists' guild from 1966, he also completed his main music-theoretical writings and subjected his compositional work to a critical overall revision.

Classification of his work

As a music theorist and composer, Simbriger was strongly influenced by Josef Matthias Hauer's world of thought, although he did not turn to twelve-tone composition until around 1950. On the basis of Hauer's theory of the tropics , Simbriger developed his own music theory, complementary harmony , a comprehensive expansion and lexical cataloging of the tropical system to include all possible sound combinations that complement each other to create a twelve-tone total. Although Simbriger grants a special position in his sound theory (due to their compositional suitability) to the complementary hexachords (6 + 6), which correspond to the Hauer tropics, and also to the ternary tetrachordic (4 + 4 + 4), he still has all the others possible group formation systematized. Apart from general studies, a detailed scientific analysis of Simbriger's theories has not yet taken place.

Simbriger's chamber music and song works attracted national attention during the composer's lifetime and were sometimes played by well-known interpreters. The music archive of the Esslingen Artists' Guild created by Simbriger (deposit at the Sudetendeutschen Musikinstitut (SMI), Regensburg) includes almost all works by composers that were tangible in the third quarter of the 20th century and who were expelled from the former eastern German territories after the Second World War.

Fonts (selection)

  • Gong and gong games , EJ Brill, Leiden 1939
  • Handbook of musical acoustics , Habbel, Regensburg 1951
  • Catalog of works by contemporary composers from eastern Germany , vol. 1–6, Die Künstlergilde eV, Esslingen 1955–1974
  • Secret of the middle. From the spiritual legacy of ancient China, Diederichs, Düsseldorf 1961
  • On the legacy of German music from the eastern regions , Laumannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Dülmen 1973
  • Complementary Harmonics , Die Künstlergilde, Esslingen 1979, 2nd edition 1980
  • The sound guidance in twelve-tone music. Peritonale Harmonik , Die Künstlergilde, Esslingen o. J. (1991)

Work overview (selection)

Orchestral works

  • op.38 Passacaglia for solo violoncello and small orchestra -
  • op.54 Music for violin and orchestra -
  • op.94 Elegy for English horn, solo violin and low strings -
  • op.102 Music for piano and string orchestra -
  • op. 104 Small Concerto for Strings

Piano music

  • WoO 4 Fantasy Dance and Minuet
  • WoO 8 variations, interlude and finale on a Chinese folk song
  • Pieces (op.2, op.77, op.109)
  • 3 suites (op.19, op.47, op.112)
  • Inventions (op.36, op.83)
  • Sonatas (op.78, op.86)
  • Six Lyric Preludes (op.90)
  • Fantasy (op.108)
  • Ink pictures (op.113)
  • Variations on an own song theme (op. 126)

Organ works

  • WoO 16 70 bars of organ music for Prof. Anton Nowakowski's 70th birthday -
  • op. 89 Prelude and Fugue -
  • op.111 triptych -
  • op. 136 Musica spiritualis -

Secular choral works

  • op. 3 Five chants based on poems from “Der Stern des Bundes” by Stefan George
  • op. 28 “In Praise of Home”. Cantata based on poems by Franz Höller
  • op. 34, 35 choirs based on old German texts
  • op. 48a “Wide Night” based on the words of Elisabeth von Langen
  • op. 56 Seven Sudeten German folk songs
  • op. 75 “Farewell”. Two male choirs based on poems by Erwin Ott

Religious music

  • op. 1 Missa alme pater
  • op. 17 motet
  • op. 18 Little Perlach Mass
  • op.43b Little Mass
  • op. 60 Little Christmas Cantata
  • op. 63 Mary the mother, pure maid
  • op. 64 Murnauer Festival Mass
  • op. 65 A pigeon flew in white. cantata
  • op. 67 Missa brevis
  • op. 70 Ave maris stella
  • op. 71 Four angel hymns
  • op. 119 Five sacred chants
  • op. 125 words of the prophet Isaiah

Chamber music without a piano

  • op. 26 Solo suite for viola
  • op.62a Allegro espressivo for violoncello solo
  • op. 88 Two pieces for solo violoncello
  • op. 45 Trio for violin, viola and violoncello
  • op. 46 Trio for two violas and violoncello
  • op. 138 Three preludes for string trio
  • op. 122 String Quartet No. 3
  • op.124 String Quartet No. 4
  • op. 136 Musica spiritualis

For wind instruments alone

  • op.23 Six short wind music in old keys (for brass sextet)
  • op. 93 wind quintet
  • op. 103 Variations for wind quintet

Chamber music with piano

  • WoO 6 Sonatina for violin and piano
  • WoO 7 Fantasy for Violin and Piano
  • op. 22 Suite for violoncello and piano
  • op. 25 Sonatina for violin and piano in the old style
  • op. 37 Little house music for violin and piano
  • op. 49 Sonata for viola and piano
  • op. 51a As a reminder. Piece for violin and piano
  • op. 52 Small suite of songs. House music for violoncello and piano
  • op. 74 Canzona for violin and piano
  • op. 81 sonata for violoncello and piano
  • op. 87 Sonatina for violin and piano
  • op. 97 Trio for violin, violoncello and piano
  • op. 100 sonata for viola and piano
  • op. 110 sonata for violin and piano
  • op. 116 variations for viola and piano
  • op. 118 Trio concertante for violin, viola and piano
  • op. 131 Spiegelungen for violin and piano

Songs

  • 244 songs (in 39 cycles) based on texts by Joseph von Eichendorff, Hans Christoph Ade, Rabindranath Tagore, Rudolf Schott, Hans Nüchtern, Friedrich Jaksch, Ernst Leibl, Emil Merker, Theodor Kramer, Josef Moder, Friedrich Hölderlin, Bô Yin Râ, Rainer Maria Rilke, Imma von Bodmershof u. a.

Stage works

  • WoO 10 "Such a free bachelor". Comic opera in one act by Otto Deiglmayr -
  • WoO 11 "Judith". Opera tragedy in two acts by Hermann Ferdinand Schell

literature

  • Axel Schröter: Heinrich Simbriger (1903-1976) , catalog raisonné / Tematický catalog, Prague: Editio Bärenreiter 2000, ISBN 80-86385-05-1 .
  • Thomas Emmerig (ed.): Theory and Analysis. Studies on the work of Heinrich Simbriger with three first publications from the estate , ConBrio, Regensburg 2011.
  • Thomas Emmerig (ed.): "Above all, I am a composer ..." Biography and work of Heinrich Simbriger with a first publication from the estate and a sound documentation , ConBrio, Regensburg 2012.
  • Thomas Emmerig (ed.): "The case is a little more complicated than usual" Attempt to approximate the personality and work of Heinrich Simbriger , Heinrich Simbriger Foundation, Regensburg 2012

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Culture portal west-east. Biographies [1]
personal data
SURNAME Simbriger, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech composer and music theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Aussig , Czech Republic
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1976
Place of death regensburg