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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