Heinz Pringsheim

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Heinz Gerhard Pringsheim (born April 7, 1882 in Munich ; † March 31, 1974 there ) was a German music critic , composer , pianist and radio editor .

Life

Heinz Pringsheim was a son from the marriage of the mathematician and art patron Alfred Pringsheim , the friend and pioneer of Richard Wagner , with the actress Hedwig Pringsheim . His brother Klaus Pringsheim was a well-known conductor and music teacher, his sister Katia became Thomas Mann's wife in 1905 .

In 1899 he graduated from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich .

Heinz Pringsheim only came to music in a roundabout way. He received his doctorate as an archaeologist in 1905 , then became a répétiteur with Richard Strauss , took over conducting , then went to Berlin and composed the music for Mary Wigman's The Seven Dances of Life in 1921 . In addition, he worked as a music critic in Berlin until the National Socialists banned him from his profession in 1933 .

After the end of the Second World War , Pringsheim built up the music department of the Bavarian Radio in his hometown of Munich and founded the Musica viva series together with the composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann .

His first wife was the painter Olga Markowa Meerson , with whom he had the daughter Tamara, his second wife Mara brought the son Horst into the marriage.

Books and essays

  • Archaeological contributions to the history of the Eleusinian cult. Dissertation, Munich 1905
  • Mazes. Berlin 1920
  • Happiness and the end of the Verdi renaissance. In: Melos. Volume 18, 1951, pp. 46-48
  • The music situation today. In: Melos. Volume 20, 1953, pp. 65-68
  • Where are we heading? In: Melos. Volume 21, 1954, pp. 71-74

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1898/99
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from August 5, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Marriages according to the NDB

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personal data
SURNAME Pringsheim, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pringsheim, Heinz Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music critic, composer, pianist and radio editor
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1974
Place of death Munich