Heinz Schubert (composer)

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Heinz Richard Schubert (born April 8, 1908 in Dessau ; † 1945 ) was a German composer and conductor.

Life

Schubert studied in Dessau with Franz von Hoeßlin and Arthur Seidl and in Munich with Hugo Röhr and Heinrich Kaminski . From 1926 to 1929 he was a master student with Siegmund von Hausegger and Joseph Haas at the Munich Academy of Music.

1929 Schubert theater conductor in Dortmund and Hildesheim, after the " seizure " of the Nazis in 1933, he joined the Nazi party in ( Party number 3119361) and was in the same year Kapellmeister in Flensburg . In 1936 his oratorio Das Ewige Reich was premiered on a text by Wilhelm Raabe for baritone , male choir and organ, a commissioned work on the occasion of the Reichstagung of the National Socialist cultural community . From 1938 to 1945 he was (with an interruption in 1942, where he worked in Münster ) the municipal music director and musical chief at the theater in Rostock .

Although he had a successful career as a conductor during the Nazi era , Heinz Schubert, following his example Kaminski, refused to make concessions to those in power in composing. He also conducted music by Kaminski after Kaminski was banned from performing as a supposed “ half-Jew ”.

In the 1940s, Schubert got more and more distressed due to his inner distance to the regime, but he remained largely unmolested until shortly before the end of the war , mainly due to the influence of his sponsor Wilhelm Furtwängler . Furtwängler performed two works by Schubert in concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic ; on February 5, 1939 Schubert's Prelude and Toccata for string orchestra and on December 6, 1942 Schubert's Hymn Concerto for soprano, tenor, organ and orchestra.

In the last year of the war, Schubert was drafted into the Volkssturm and was last registered as a gunner with the unit field post number 44.380C. His last message comes from February 28, 1945. He was probably killed in the Battle of the Oderbruch. He has been officially missing since the end of 1945 and was declared dead on December 31, 1945.

After the end of the Second World War , his work was largely forgotten. Most of Schubert's score manuscripts were also destroyed by the effects of the war.

The few contemporary recordings include two recordings made by the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft in 1940 with the Berliner Philharmoniker under the direction of the composer: a recording of prelude and toccata for string trio and double string orchestra with Erich Röhn , violin, Reinhard Wolf , viola and Tibor de Machula , cello, and a recording of the Concertanten Suite for violin and chamber orchestra with the violinist Heinz Stanske as well as a radio recording of his hymn concert as a concert recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the soprano Erna Berger , the tenor Walther Ludwig and the organist Fritz Heitmann among the Conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler in December 1942. The Bavarian Radio then produced the Ambrosian Concerto with the pianist Gerhard Puchelt in the 1970s .

In the course of the rediscovery of composers such as Heinrich Kaminski and Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling , Schubert's work has recently received late recognition, a. was reflected in reprints of several compositions.

Works

  • Sinfonietta for large orchestra, 1929
  • Concertante Suite for violin and chamber orchestra, 1931–1932
  • The soul on a text from the Upanishads for alto and orchestra
  • Hymn after Nietzsche's " Zarathustra "
  • Lyrical concert for viola and chamber orchestra
  • Annunciation after the Upanishads, 1936
  • The Eternal Empire according to Wilhelm Raabe (lost), 1936
  • Prelude and Toccata for double string orchestra, 1936
  • Hymn concerto for soprano, tenor, organ and orchestra, 1939
  • From the infinite to Nietzsche's "Zarathustra" for soprano and three string quintets, 1941
  • Ambrosian concert , chorale fantasy about " Verleih uns Frieden gnädlichen " for piano and small orchestra, 1943
  • Sketches for a Concerto solemnis

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 . CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 6.336
  2. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 550.
  3. ^ A b Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 . CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 6.336–6.337.
  4. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 . CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 6.338.
personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schubert, Heinz Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH 1945